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    The Court Jester is a 1955 American historical musical comedy film starring Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury and Cecil Parker...
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    jester, court jester, fool or joker was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain guests during royal court. Jesters...
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  • The court jester hypothesis is used in reference to the idea that abiotic forces (including climate), rather than biotic competition between species,...
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  • court jester is a type of entertainer. Court jester may also refer to: The Court Jester, a 1956 film The Court Jesters, an improv company The Court Jesters...
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    the male figure depicted in the painting, was the court jester when Poland was at the height of its political, economic and cultural power during the...
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    his 2009 English-language autobiography was titled The Court Jester. His comic turns on the court often include faking serves, slow-motion miming, hitting...
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    Stańczyk (category Jesters)
    pronunciation: [ˈstajnt͡ʂɨk]) was the most famous Polish court jester. He was employed by three Polish kings: Alexander, Sigismund the Old and Sigismund Augustus...
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  • humour. Jester, Court jester of King Cradock in the TV series Jane and the Dragon. Jester, the Harlequin puppet in the Puppet Master films In the children's...
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    Wise fool (redirect from Wisdom of the fool)
    (2009-10-21). "The Court Jester Stanczyk (1480-1560) Receives News of the Loss of Smolensk (1514), During a Ball at Queen Bona's Court". JAMA. 302 (15):...
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  • The Court Jesters is a professional improv company founded in 1989 and based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is a subsidiary of the Court Theatre professional...
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    Pauly Shore (redirect from The Weasel)
    as Richard Simmons titled The Court Jester. Simmons released a statement revealing that he did not give permission for the short. Bronner, Sasha (November...
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    Cap and bells (redirect from Jester hat)
    The cap and bells is a type of fool's cap with bells worn by a court fool or jester. The bells were also added to the dangling sleeves and announced the...
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    Gopal Bhar (redirect from Gopal the Jester)
    [ˈɡopal bʱãˑɽ]) was a court jester in medieval Bengal. He was in the court of Raja Krishnachandra (1710–1783), the then-king of Nadia in the 18th century. Gopal...
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    Motley is the traditional costume of the court jester, the motley fool, or the arlecchino character in commedia dell'arte. The harlequin wears a patchwork...
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    Glynis Johns (category British emigrants to the United States)
    films as The Sword and the Rose (1953), The Weak and the Wicked (1954), Mad About Men (1954), The Court Jester (1955), The Sundowners (1960), The Cabinet...
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  • The Court Jesters were a 1960s American doo-wop group, best known for their humorous 1961 single "Roaches". The lyrics include the advice "Don't leave...
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    Danny Kaye (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
    and The Court Jester (1955). His films were popular, especially for his performances of patter songs and favorites such as "Inchworm" and "The Ugly Duckling"...
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    Weaver, Tom. John Carradine: The Films, McFarland & Co., 1999. Danny Kaye Summary Turner Classic Movies. Notes for The Court Jester "John Carradine," Internet...
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  • Andare (category Jesters)
    Andare (Sinhala: අන්දරේ) from Udamalala, Hambantota was a court jester employed by the King Keerthi Sri Rajasinghe (1742 - 1782) in Sri Lanka. He used...
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    his wife or the cook. He turns to the little man with the pointed hat and says to the court jester "make me laugh". And I am that court jester. — Richard...
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    Eugenia Martínez Vallejo (category Female jesters)
    Spanish court jester. She gained notoriety for her large size and weight, now thought to be the result of Prader–Willi Syndrome. Vallejo was born in the small...
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  • Mathurine la Folle ('Mathurine the Fool') (fl. 1589 – fl. 1627), was a French jester. She was the jester of the court of French kings Henry III, Henry...
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    also played roles in theater and folklore, like the court jesters of the Middle Ages and the jesters and ritual clowns of various indigenous cultures...
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    Basil Rathbone (category British expatriate male actors in the United States)
    involved in noteworthy sword fights in Tower of London, The Mark of Zorro, and The Court Jester (1956). Despite his real-life skill, Rathbone only twice...
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  • Jesse Bogdonoff (category Jesters)
    former Bank of America financial advisor to the government of Tonga and court jester of Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, the king of Tonga. He was embroiled in a financial...
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    Will Sommers (category English jesters)
    the best-known court jester (believed to be a ‘natural fool’) of Henry VIII of England. He was said to have been born in Shropshire, and came to the attention...
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    playing Admiral Ackbar in the Star Wars series. In addition, he puppeteered for Salacious B. Crumb, the court jester of Jabba the Hutt, in Star Wars: Episode...
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  • known as Hoid, the Drifter, and Cephandrius, is the court jester of king Elhokar Kholin at the Shattered Plains. Wit's role as court jester simply allows...
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  • another of the earliest recorded uses of the phrase when he described the court jester as something that "...some count a necessary evil in a Court". In Common...
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  • Chicot (category Jesters)
    d'Anglerais, was the jester of King Henry III of France and later Henry IV. He was sharp-tongued and very cunning, and spoke with the king without formalities...
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