Jeff Ware, who plays the wise-fool character, Tankhum, a man driven to madness by the murder of his son, couldn't be loonier; a little gravitas would make him more ominous and frightening, like the harbinger of grief he means to be.
Although House Of Fools' characters are not due in the Poignant Moments tour, which begins in Leeds this month, older Reeves and Mortimer creations are, including the Stotts, the Man With the Stick and Novelty Island.
His holy fool title character is a superbly nuanced comic creation, and Gervais' Emmy submission (and, remember, voters look only at one episode and not the season as a whole) contains a beautifully written, sentimental speech that could win him the Emmy just like Jeff Daniels' "Newsroom" state-of-America rant did the trick last year.
Back when this character really did harken back to Ed Wynn and his Perfect Fool persona.
Nicholas Lyndhurst, who played Only Fools... character Rodney, said: "I'm so saddened to hear about Roger.
The Morris dance (probably Moorish in origin; from Spanish morisco), famed in England but also performed in medieval continental Europe, was strongly mimetic and had dramatic elements in its use of the fool or clown character.
He is "a fool," says a character in Atlas Shrugged, "whose source of values is the fools he succeeds in fooling" (1957, p. 945).
It's also why I was fooled by his character in Sicario.
In the week that Final Destination 3 arrives on DVD with an interactive feature that literally allows you to shout, "Look out behind you, fool!" at the characters, we also see the fourth Scary Movie spoof coming to cinemas, applying the Airplane! principle (and one of its directors) to the many recent horror movies it mocks.
He has been given a temporary stable name of Rodney - after the long-legged Only Fools and Horses character.
