“Always aware of its own absurdity, the scripts positively dripped with knowing pop-culture references and side-splitting asides.”
“The absurdity of the plot clashes with the show's craving for social realism.”
“Last year one MP tried to remove this legal absurdity with a Private Members Bill but failed.”
absurd
(obsolete) An absurdity. [Attested from the early 17th century until the mid 17th century.]
(philosophy) The opposition between the human search for meaning in life and the inability to find any; the state or condition in which man exists in an irrationaluniverse and his life has no meaning outside of his existence. [First attested in English in the early 20th century and first used in the mid-19th century in Danish by Kierkegaard.]