“He could not, like some men, pass off a serious matter with a humorous jest.”

“I now see that I was wrong in supposing that I was being made the object of just a harmless jest.”

“Having become the scoff and jest of the town, he quitted it with shame and disgrace.”

“Apollodoros explains that women indulge in jesting at the Thesmophoria in memory of the time when a certain old woman named Iambe made the goddess laugh with her raillery.”

“May all who read this take warning not to indulge in jesting, for if not in murder, it often ends in other evils.”

“Children clowned around with a jester at a fun workshop on April Fool's Day.”

“Like the jester at a medieval court whose caperings and quips recalled the king to sanity, he aimed only to remind the world of its duty.”

“Gone is the raconteur and court jester rolled into one big loveable package.”

“There are groups with jolly ladies-in-waiting in colorful crinolines attended by adoring cavaliers, as well as court jesters.”

“Over the past few weeks, the Democratic senators, their jesters and gagmen, have said just how sorry he is.”

“I see an intrepid adventurer plodding blindly through a world of booby traps, goblins, jesters and dragons.”