Epicharmus
Plautus
Titus Maccius Plautus
Menander
Mitford
Nancy Freeman Mitford
Nancy Mitford
Xenophanes
Aristophanes
Pierre Corneille
Corneille
Chaon
Christopher Fry
gagster
Fry
gagwriter
gagman
James Branch Cabell
crusader
Sellers
Cabell
Peter Sellers
Francois Rabelais
Pliny
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Rabelais
Aesop
Pliny the Younger
La Rochefoucauld
Edmond Rostand
Rostand
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus
Herodotean
funny book
buffo
floppy
John Trumbull
bouffe
Trumbull
Satyrus
Katharevusa language
fool
Edwardian
Katharevusa
motley fool
seignorial
Middleton
Thomas Middleton
jester
medieval literature
Evelyn Arthur Saint John Waugh
Don Juan
Waugh
Gaul
parodist
Nicolas de Malebranche
Evelyn Waugh
Malebranche
antiepic
lampooner
Nicolas Malebranche
comics
satirist
Asparukh
stylite
Weil
funny
comicography
Moliere
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin
Chaplin
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Charlie Chaplin
metadramatist
strip
periegete
Simone Weil
Troilus
Marquis de Condorcet
straight man
Condorcet
second banana
bronze age
Fielding
Antiphon
historiography
afterpiece
medieval studies
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat
Henry Fielding
medievalism
Celsus
C. P. Snow
Snow
Antilochus
Baron Snow of Leicester
Charles Percy Snow
Xenophon
Ivanhoe
mock-heroic