writers and artists may have their works booed, but COMEDIANS must
face LIVE focused contempt from a unified crowd ... comedy might evolve through
the decades like fashion or music, but crowd disapproval never changes
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This looks like somebody's younger brother wanted to get into the
comedy business, but the kid just didn't have the chops for it
comedy business, but the kid just didn't have the chops for it
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Many comedians have played anger or indignity to hilarious effect
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"... the fool Marchesina bore so striking a resemblance to the Duke's son in law, Malatesta, that it was thought necessary always to send Marchesina out of Milan whenever Malatesta repaired thither on a visit."
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A Paul Woodroffe illustration see full size
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1896
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1500s?
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1500s?
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1700s?
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John Buckland Wright
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Some actual historic accounts of an obnoxious English jester named 'SMUG' "How Smug, being drunk in bed, pissed upon his Wife through a cullender instead of a chamber pot"
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A German jester
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A Franz Brun illustration, 1700s
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"... mad pranks and merry jests, 1628"
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To perform for the rich and powerful, he must have
been a comedic genius and a shrewd diplomat ...
wearing his self-humiliating hat, he was free to
wearing his self-humiliating hat, he was free to
make daring jokes ... that's what his hosts wanted
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1500s Russia's leader Ivan the Terrible scalded an unfunny jester with boiling water
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Cartoon illustrations of an 1889 French clown
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An 1896 comedian with racist jokes
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Charles Rodrigues for National Lampoon Magazine, 1973
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An old sculpture of two actual jesters from the year 1047 see full size
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