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A jester unemployed is nobody’s fool!
— Hawkins ‧ The Court Jester
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Hawkins is playing with the idea of a jester's job. Without work, he says, a jester can't be anybody's fool. It's a quick pun: the fool is the profession, so idleness makes the joke vanish along with the paycheck.
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