The "Today I Found Out" YouTube channel host Simon Whistler takes a look at the role of the Medieval court jester, the "fool" who was allowed to speak his mind in public and insult the king, within ...

Although by the fourteenth century, minstrels had passed the time of it's greatest glory, which had been the period of the troubadours, the courts of kings and nobles were still the center of ...

William Fischer is an author at Collider. Born and raised in Nebraska, he latched onto moviemaking at a young age and has been chasing it ever since. William holds a BFA in film from the University of ...

Costumed swashbucklers undergo a happy spoofing in The Court Jester with Danny Kaye heading the fun-poking. Norman Panama and Melvin Frank drag in virtually every time-honored, and timeworn, medieval ...

Has Donald Trump become America's Jester? In medieval times, the court jester was an established institution. The jester, often referred to as the fool, was exempt from the niceties of the court and ...

The idea of having a little guy that followed you around and told jokes seems fun, right? At least, that’s what we see in the media. Jesters, or fools if you prefer, were performers who entertained ...

In The Court Jester Danny Kaye is the court jester, and he is a funny man. He dances, duels, jousts against "the grim and grisly gruesome Griswold," unwittingly outwits the evil courtiers and tells ...