We've wondered whether Sam Pepper, a YouTube star who likes to be filmed grabbing women's bodies, is simply a misunderstood joker.
It appears England have found the natural successor to the now retired Graeme Swann as the joker in the pack.
For example Lancashire delayed their heavy roller joker in their opening game at Trent Bridge, choosing not to use it before their first innings and instead keeping it up their sleeves (metaphorically, obviously - even Jack Simmons didn't have shirts that big) for the second.
He was extremely professional and avoided alcohol, and showed glimpses of the practical joker in him by, for example, putting his team-mates' possessions on shelves where they could not reach them.
David Cameron has a joke about the coming Euro elections: "For Nigel Farage it's like a pub quiz and he's playing his joker on his specialist round".
Opinion polls indicate that it is likely to win by better than two-to-one on election day.There is only one joker, and that is the growing amount of money piling in from Nevada gambling interests to oppose it.
"I want to leave" is the standard reply to questions about plans for the future, from modern-minded youngsters in the chic French patisseries of the capital, Algiers, to humbler types in their simple homes in Ghardaia.In this section Going all wrong The joker is back Patience persists More sophisticated than you thought Rebel retreat ReprintsAcross the country, Algerians complain about corruption.
That makes him yet another joker in a contest in which Republicans once thought they held all the cards.
The joker in the pack is a southern plan for a new pipeline to Kenya, cutting out the north.
The boldest advance came in the 17th-century, when Henry Winstanley, an eccentric inventor and practical joker (he had chairs in his house that flew up in the air), took it upon himself to build a lighthouse on the lethal Eddystone Rock, 14 miles from the English port of Plymouth.
He now rules through his wife, Rabri Devi.Mr Yadav describes himself as the victim of a concerted campaign by the national media, dominated by the "fascist BJP, to portray him as a joker, because he represents the forces of secularism and the downtrodden.
