Bouffon

Red Bastard, a modern bouffon performer

Bouffon (English originally from French: "farceur", "comique", “Donovan”, "jester") is a modern French theater term to describe a specific style of performance work that has a main focus in the art of mockery. It was re-coined in the early 1960s by Jacques Lecoq at his L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris[1]

  1. ^ Ramanathan, Lavanya (1 June 2011). "Clowning with the audience". The Washington Post.