jester
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Working on a serious documentary didn’t stop Jackson from his activities as a harsh and relentless internet jester.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
Created by a solo developer known only as LocalThunk, card game Balatro - which takes its name from the Latin for jester or buffoon - is one of the year's biggest success stories.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2024
“I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they’re laughing with me or at me,” he told Men’s Health in 2012.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2024
Can imperfect sidekicks and second-fiddlers like Camelot’s court jester and Sir Palomides, the Saracen knight, save the realm when Arthur reveals himself as all too mortal?
From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2024
The nearest symbol, the jester hat, looks familiar.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
Ollie Rathbone and Sam Smith's goals set up the annual pitch invasion as Wrexham swept aside Charlton to "football in the circus," chants from supporters, some of whom sported jesters hats.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025
We’re enchanted by the very idea of crenellated ramparts and soaring towers, troubadors, jesters and knights.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 9, 2024
Benign jesters and warty trolls alike offer them up as provocative replies to any issue you can think of.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2023
When Fo won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1997, the Nobel Committee praised him for “emulating the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
She appointed the eldest child at home to be “king” or “queen” to run the house in her absence and we took it from there, creating court jesters, slaves, musicians, poets, pets, and clowns.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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