gagster

They do simmer down and rev up in Act II. But the most consistently nuanced gagsters here are the joyously sly Marston, and LaMorticella, as a lovestruck wallflower whose intellect is wrestling with her hormones.

By extension, then, what could a “Max Scherzer” be but the “greatest gagster”?

We, the public, get to be part of the high jinks; they, the gagsters, get the profits.