Word: jestering
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...Irish Mafia," Kenneth O'Donnell and David Powers, have come along with their ghostwriter, Joe McCarthy, to add another bestselling chorus to the Camelot legend. As White House appointments secretary, O'Donnell was Camelot's gatekeeper (Jackie called him "the wolfhound"). Powers was court jester...
...Henry VIII, brought back to life at the boisterous age of 29. When the King enters the room, diners are expected to drop their forks and snap to attention. When he raises his tankard and exclaims "All hail," the guests are expected to return the toast, "Wassail." When his jester leads a chorus of the King's favorite ditty, Immorality Forever, woe to the bloke who fails to sing along...
Take for example his response to the question "Do Aprodisiacs Work?" In a sketch set in Medieval England where everyone speaks in less-than-Shakespearean verse. Allen casts himself as an unfunny court jester who wants to seduce the queen...
Richard Burton, once an actor, now performs mainly as a buffoon. In his latest exercise in melodrama, he even permits himself to be outfitted in a sort of jester's motley: outrageous mustard-colored blazer and lavender-trimmed evening clothes. His chin whiskers seem to have been dipped in a vat of Lady Clairol, so his blue beard is colored like a pair of muddy policeman's pants. All that is needed to complete the costume is cap and bells...
...includes some broad, funny send-ups of other movies (Fantastic Voyage, La Notte), and its fair share of memorably wacky lines. "I have to think of something quick," moans Woody, playing the court jester in a demented medieval allegory. "The Renaissance will soon be here and we'll all be painting." But overall it is just Woody marking time and being merely a little funnier than, say, Sex and the Single Girl...