(n.) A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk.
Example Sentences:
(1) He may not be able to cling to his status as the nation's court jester, however, without the BBC's patronage.
(2) We have come to expect this from Trump – the court jester of global politics,” said Issa Falaha, a Beirut banker.
(3) They had noticed the Jester's pro-censorship credentials, deducing he must be receiving help.
(4) Updated at 4.24pm BST 4.19pm BST Snooker books: Infinite Jester from Leicester, by David Foster Wallace.
(5) Racist jokes (some of which would have gone over my roof rack if I had been a Top Gear viewer) and an assault cost him his BBC slot , but he keeps his perch in the Murdoch press and, so I suspect, as court jester in the Cotswolds.
(6) The, ahem, Jester from Leicester (it's no Sheriff of Pottingham) did pretty well to get out of last night's second session with a three-frame deficit and keep himself well in this match, but O'Sullivan is looking pretty close to his brilliant best.
(7) For days, from their darkened chatrooms, the Anonymous ones had been watching a hacker called the Jester who seemed to be co-ordinating a series of attacks on internet service providers hosting WikiLeaks.
(8) ; The Season Saga; The Clod Hoper, Belly Laughs, The Little Woman, Pulp Fairies; The Grumpy Court Jester (BBC Children’s television – Playdays); Fact of Faith (BBC Radio Drama Young Writer’s Festival); The Victim (Royal Court Young Writer’s Festival & InterPlay Festival, Australia).
(9) I used to have a laugh and a joke with the compere, Richard Beare, and he gave me the nickname the Jester from Leicester.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cheech and Chong in Up in Smoke The idea that the genre could have greater aspirations is only a surprise because we’ve become used to stoner characters as affable, harmless, bong-toting jesters awesomely out of kilter with the adult world: Cheech and Chong, Floyd from True Romance , Jay and Silent Bob, Harold and Kumar.
(11) That's no joke for The Jester", reckons Gary Naylor.
(12) If I was King and he was my jester he'd be off to the gibbet."
(13) Selby, 23, the man called the jester from Leicester, had played his most damaging practical joke to date.
(14) Once again, Liverpool's sage and jester, Jimmy McGovern, is the voice of the people (for him, the destruction of Edge Lane, ostensibly for a road-widening of a matter of inches, was the last straw).
(15) As court jesters tweaking the nose of the powerful, they are quite possibly helping to keep the nation sane.
(16) The paper carried a picture of the Australian prime minister dressed as a court jester, with a simple headline: “THE WRONG TONE” .
(17) The lyrics reference sexual disease, brown dwarf stars, court jesters and dictators, all delivered in a strangulated baritone, as if Walker's testicles were being squeezed.
(18) Party politics: why grime defines the sound of protest in 2016 Read more Despite all this, Stormzy is more than just the jester of the grime scene.
(19) He added Johnson was a “court jester” but not a serious politician and said that the Conservatives Johnson had divided would not be loyal to him after leaving the EU.
(20) In 2008 Wright quit the BBC's Match of the Day claiming that the corporation is out of touch and that he was expected to be a "comedy jester".
Prankster
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) 'A modern revolutionary group headed for the television, not for the factory,' quipped the late Abbie Hoffman, one of the great political pranksters of 1968who helped provoke a bloody battle between anti-war protesters and the Chicago police force at the Chicago Democratic convention.
(2) After John wrote an effusive Instagram post about the call, the Kremlin swiftly denied all knowledge, and it soon surfaced that the pranksters had been involved.
(3) Led by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, they were perhaps the smallest yet most effective bunch of political pranksters to emerge in 1968.
(4) The Russian deputy prime minister, Dmitry Rogozin, who is on the US sanctions list, tweeted that the sanctions drawn up by Obama must have been the work of a "prankster".
(5) Dmitry Rogozin (@DRogozin) I think some prankster prepared the draft of this Act of the US President) March 17, 2014 Updated at 10.08am GMT
(6) As he ambles into the small interview room at Munich’s Säbener Strasse in a plain black T-shirt and trainers, Alaba is unassuming to the point of being shy, a little at odds with his reputation as a social-media prankster – his oeuvre contains a series of shots of the midfielder Franck Ribéry dozing and a nearly-nude double-selfie with his former team-mate Mitchell Weiser, in thongs – and as a typically Viennese lausbub (rascal) who once told the club’s former president Uli Hoeness that he had to “think about” an allegation by a concerned member of the public that he was painting the town red with Ribéry in Munich.
(7) If in the future their schedules allow, he’s ready to meet with him and discuss any questions that interest him.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Listen to hoax Elton John-Putin call by pranksters Lexus and Vovan The tumultuous story of John and Putin began after the singer said in an Instagram post earlier this month that the president had called him and he looked forward to meeting Putin “face-to-face to discuss LGBT equality in Russia”.
(8) Across the fractured kingdom of the Belgians, it was a day of national embarrassment, celebrated by wits and pranksters countrywide.
(9) The hip-hop fan is notorious with team mates for being a prankster as highlighted through his short-lived television series Rio's World Cup Wind-ups.
(10) Jeremy Beadle, a Nineties prankster, proposed that Stagg face a second trial before the cameras.
(11) Russian pranksters say they fooled Elton John with Putin call Read more “They didn’t do any checks on us at all, it was really easy to get through,” said Kuznetsov.
(12) "Oliver is a little bit more of a prankster than Jon – a prankster who is enjoying using his soapbox to steer his viewers toward mischief."
(13) And how the administration thinks increasing CFAA penalties is going to worry either North Korean hackers or ISIS sympathizers (or more likely pranksters ) who take advantage of negligent password practices is anyone’s guess.
(14) The prankster can't resist regaling Brian with anecdotes about his brother.
(15) Žižek, though, is also a political provocateur and an absurdist prankster.
(16) An Australian politician says he has learned a valuable lesson in social networking after he "liked" a Facebook photo without realising that it showed a teenage prankster exposing himself.
(17) Spark, though commended for her "witty care for words," ultimately boiled down to "a lonely, Roman Catholic prankster whispering little dry and lethal jokes about peculiar school mistresses".
(18) Prankster showers Sepp Blatter with fake dollar bills at Fifa press conference Read more The sense of farce surrounding the scandal-hit body intensified when the prankster Simon Brodkin, in character as footballer Jason Bent – self-declared “North Korean World Cup bidding delegate” – showered the longstanding Fifa president with dollar bills seconds before his press conference was due to begin.
(19) He continued: “He and his merry group of pranksters decided for their own reasons it would be better to come out ... he then turns around and rather than deliver on the promises, lies he made to the country, he turns round and slags off people and the country.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Listen to hoax Elton John-Putin call by pranksters Lexus and Vovan.