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English
Etymology
From the name of the producer in the 1995 mockumentary Waiting for Guffman, + -esque.
Adjective
Guffmanesque (comparative more Guffmanesque, superlative most Guffmanesque)
- (theater, of a production, mildly derogatory) amateurish or mawkish, but believed worthy of critical praise by its participants