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but it should also be noted that this only works while your king protects you. As noted above, being a court jester means you can speak your mind more freely than others.

The Fool, of course, in Robin Hobb's Farseer trilogy.

They send everything they overhear back to the chief clown, who profits enormously.

In one of the diaries, it's revealed that all court jesters are actually spies for their guild.

He later becomes king himself, and is shown to be a kind Reasonable Authority Figure, and optimistic by Disc standards.

In Wyrd Sisters, the Fool is a classic jester who spends most of the book reluctantly advising the usurping Duke.

He's a little to sardonic for his own good, leaving him unemployed and eventually sending him on the run from a barbarian lord who doesn't find the Poet's audition for court jester a little too insulting.

The Poet from A Canticle for Leibowitz fills the role of the Shakespearean fool, as he points out hypocrisies in the form of jokes that go over the heads of the priests and barbarian lords in his company.

He's also an impossibly powerful sorcerer, however, and at one point magically disguises himself as a "standard" jester, nailing home the resemblance.

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Beldin from David Edding's The Belgariad and The Malloreon series as a twisted, hideous hunchback, he can say and do just about anything he wants because everyone's staring at the hump on his spine.

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Alison takes full advantage of exile to a remote backwater Kingdom to begin to develop the skills of Clown, Jester and Troubador in excitingly new and novel ways - knowing the only other Guild member for several hundred miles around to notice this is Verence, and he is not likely to complain. The Fools' Guild, therefore, has to accept that like it or not, there is now a fully accredited Lady Jester out there. Verence, a much-respected Guild graduate and a King, believes a female jester can't be any worse and may indeed be refreshingly different. Alison, aware she is not especially wanted in Ankh-Morpork, gladly accepts an offer from King Verence of Lancre to become his Court Jester. It is at pains to point out that while they have been forced by circumstances to liberalise, they are not that liberal. Forced by the machinations of Lord Vetinari to take a complement of female students, the Guild is at a loss as to what to do with them after they graduate. Pessimal, Alison Grose is one of the first women to graduate from the Fools' Guild. Not to be confused with The Fool, a character who thoughtlessly blunders through adventures yet comes to no harm. Compare to Court Mage and The Bard the Court Jester may overlap with either. May also overlap with Honest Advisor, especially if they use comedy to criticize the great magnates of the realm. May overlap with Magical Clown, due to Real Life jesters in The Middle Ages using magic tricks as part of their acts, and Villainous Harlequin. Many techniques of clowning and circus arts have their origins in the craft of the Court Jester.

For example the reason modern clowns wear ruffs is because they were popular back when jesters were around, so the jesters started wearing them too, and they have since remained a part of clown costumes. It's worth noting that real jesters were the Trope Codifiers for most Clown Tropes. As characters, Jesters are anything but straightforward, and usually have some element of The Prankster, Bunny-Ears Lawyer, or Delighting in Riddles to their personality.