Neither Boccaccio nor the author of Il Grasso struck a chord so vicious, though the latter carried his buffoonery to the utmost stretch of heartlessness.
He does not merely laugh, but mixes satire with ribaldry, and points buffoonery with biting sarcasm.
Then, by a brusque change from buffoonery to seriousness, Folengo plunges into a confession of faith, attributed to Rainero, but presumably his own.
The four scenes of rough and rank buffoonery which deface this act and the two following have given very reasonable offence to critics from whom they have provoked very unreasonable reflections.
So that such buffoonery amazed and bewildered the spectators, or at least some of them.
But at this point another almost incredible scene of grotesque buffoonery gave the finishing touch to the episode.
Buffoonery in them is a form of resentful irony against those to whom they daren’t speak the truth, from having been for years humiliated and intimidated by them.
A change, indeed, had come over him; be became more restless than ever, his looks savage, his buffoonery coarser and more boisterous.
His "Quixote" is not so much a translation as a travesty, and a travesty that for coarseness, vulgarity, and buffoonery is almost unexampled even in the literature of that day.
In his oration to the Alexandrians,(1859) Dion Chrysostom speaks with unwonted asperity of the Cynics, haranguing with coarse buffoonery a gaping crowd in the squares and alleys or in the porches of the temples.
Such a ridiculous jumble of religion and buffoonery might well excite the indignation of serious people.
His performances were usually exhibited at fairs, wakes, and other places of public resort: they consisted in low buffoonery and ludicrous tricks to engage the attention and move the laughter of the populace.
For the impression that public trials are the scenes of buffoonery and brutality is due to the manner in which these trials are exploited by the sensational papers.
On the other hand, bid this buffoonery cease, Admit that honor is a privilege, The question follows, privilege worth what?
Though by the greater gods despised and hated by the less, Yet often they must needs admire his wit and liveliness; At times his cunning was of use worse mischief to prevent, And when buffoonery prevail’d, there was his element.
Marred as a whole by buffoonery and excess, the play is still among the two or three best tragedies of the Restoration.
Horse-play and buffoonery or racy comedy often contrasted incongruously with events of momentous importance.
It was Hercules, above all other heroes, whom mythology endeavoured to place in ludicrous situations; and sometimes made the butt of the buffoonery of others.
They have looked on this passage as merely a piece of Fieldian low-comedy, a coarse bit of buffoonery which pretends to no function save that of humor, and can sustain not even this pretense.
The broad and cynicalbuffoonery of Scarron's burlesques had always shocked his severe and pure taste.
He had just seen an impious piece of buffoonery played.
The Italian Pantomime had two peculiar features; a species of buffoonery technically termed Lazzi, and one of a more extraordinary nature, the extempore dialogue of its comedy.
It is amazing that the actor who plays it should also be able to carry off triumphantly the frantic buffooneryof Maitre Pathelin, or should represent the Sganarelle of the "Medecin Malgre Lui" with such an unctuous breadth of humor.
If buffoonery should be made to please him, he may lose the dignity of his mind.
One or two popular humorists gave the impetus, and set a host of imitators sliding and wriggling down the inclined plane leading from wit and humour to buffoonery and bad taste.
