[n] a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages
fool
banana, buffo, buffoon, burlesquer, caricaturist, clown, Columbine, comedian, comic, cutup, droll, epigrammatist, fool, funnyman, gag writer, gagman, gagster, Hanswurst, Harlequin, humorist, idiot, ironist, jack-pudding, joker, jokesmith, jokester, lampoo