absurdity

farce

Absurd, laughable situation

• slapstickExaggerated physical humor
• buffooneryLudicrous or silly conduct
• clowningPlayful comic behavior

parody · burlesque · travesty · caricature · mockery · spoof · satire · lampoon · wit · jest

outlandish

Strikingly weird or foreign-seeming

• eccentricUnconventional in character
• grotesqueDistorted, bizarre figure
• freakishStrangely abnormal, disturbing

peculiar · weird · preposterous · quirky · anomalous · fantastic · whimsical · strange · oddity · outrageous

humbug

False talk or pretense

• shamFraudulent imitation
• pretenseDeceptive outward show
• charadeAbsurd or obvious pretense

hoax · mockery · fakery · put-on · travesty · bunkum · flimflam · fraud · farce · joke

kafkaesque

Nightmarishly illogical and bureaucratic

• dreamlikeHazy and fantastical
• phantasmagoriaShifting sequence of illusions
• hallucinatorySeeming falsely perceived

bizarre · grotesque · uncanny · otherworldly · fantastical · chimerical · oneiric · metamorphosis · surrealism · catch-22

paradox

Seemingly absurd truth

• contradictionOpposing claims, incompatible together
• fallacyError in reasoning
• inconsistencyLack of steady pattern

irrationality · unreason · incoherence · nonsensicality · preposterousness · impossibility · senselessness · invalidity · incongruity · oxymoron

balderdash

Senseless talk or writing

• poppycockFoolish or meaningless talk
• gibberishUnintelligible speech or writing
• drivelSenseless, silly talk

hogwash · twaddle · malarkey · claptrap · blather · tommyrot · codswallop · bunkum · piffle · baloney

• comic devicespuns, wordplay, slapstick, comic relief, witty banter
• farceslapstick, pratfall, mistaken identity, pratfalls, buffoonery
• unreasonirrationalism, irrationality, unreason, illogic, anti-rationalism
• humorjoke, jokes, joking, comedy, comic
• comedy elementspunchline, wit, gag, satire, irony
• comedy writingjoke, jokes, comedy, satire, parody