What is the difference between farce and satire?

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Jaime
Mar 8, 2018

#Farce# is comedy that heavily relies on overly exaggerated, dramatic events.

#Satire# is comedy that heavily relies on insults and the ridiculing of people, groups, society, political groups, etc.

The difference is that farce relies on "what's happens" in the story/play and satire pinpoints specific people to ridicule.

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