Original artwork, not a still
A jester unemployed is nobody’s fool!
— The Court Jester ‧ 1956
Behind the line
What it means
Our 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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