buffoonery
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The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures.
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A serious ape whom none take seriously, Obliged in this fool's world to earn his nuts By hard buffoonery.
The buffoonery of Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart is only an exaggeration of an essential quality of the classical style. This style was, in its origins, basically a comic one.
I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.
A second significant concern is the authoritarian posture and rhetoric of ministers like Bheki Cele and Fikile Mbalula, both of whom have a history of authoritarianism and buffoonery.
Everyone understands the campy, over-the-top excitement assignment, especially Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey, who deliver high-level performances of pure buffoonery as villains Two-Face and The Riddler, respectively.
Here’s an example from a 1672 pamphlet by the poet-satirist Andrew Marvell: “As things of Buffoonery do commonly, they carry with them their own Imprimatur.”