The phrase "a buffoon and a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing someone in a derogatory manner, often implying foolishness or silliness.
Example: "He acted like a buffoon and a clown during the meeting, making it hard for anyone to take him seriously."
Alternatives: "a fool and a" or "an idiot and a".
He is indeed a buffoon and a recipe for disaster.
His enemies and other critics thought that power had been handed to a buffoon and a demagogue.
There is a tendency to dismiss Kim JoNorth Koreah Korea's youthful dictator, as a buffoon and a lightweight.
Even as he handed out wads of petrodollars to impoverished developing countries, their leaders mocked him behind his back for being a buffoon and a clown.
Donald Trump was branded a racist demagogue, a buffoon and a "wazzock" in the British parliament as MPs debated whether to ban the Republican presidential candidate from coming to the UK.
And who would bother to shoot him anyway It is hard to put yourself across as a buffoon and a potential martyr at the same time, and Huey did not convince us in either role.
Talking last month on his late-night HBO show Last Week Tonight, Oliver ridiculed Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha's "dystopian nightmare" of a government, called Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn a "buffoon" and an "idiot", and ridiculed a clip of a contentious home video of the prince and his semi-naked wife at a poolside birthday party for their pet poodle Foo Foo.
The article in question called Mr. Palmer "a buffoon" and said he posed a threat to democracy.
Two victories in the London mayoral election for Boris Johnson, confounding the notion that his charge is a buffoon and London a Labour fiefdom.
He was, as Allen pointed out, a buffoon, and was playing a different, and in many ways sillier, form of basketball.
On "My So-Called Life," the school principal is intelligent and scary, not a buffoon, and the classroom is a circus funhouse of tedium and terror.
