jester

“And I’m the court jester,” customer Scott Richardson chimed in.

“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.

She could: She plays the Fool — usually a male role — the court jester whose comic antics soften the sting of bracingly honest commentary.

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?

In a career spanning more than 40 years, he established himself as a hyperliterate jester and an anarchic clown.