buffoonlike

Updated: May 22, 2025

I do not regard as particularly dangerous the vulgar French farce where papa is caught in some extraordinary and buffoonlike situation with the washerwoman. Safety lies in exaggeration. But it is a different matter with the ordinary Broadway show, where virtue is made at least inferentially the object of ridicule, and sexuality is the underlying purpose of the production.

Arthur Cheney Train - The "Goldfish"