All mummer synonyms

noun mummer

• fool — to trick, deceive, or impose on: They tried to fool him.
• jester — a person who is given to witticisms, jokes, and pranks.
• mime — the art or technique of portraying a character, mood, idea, or narration by gestures and bodily movements; pantomime.
• buffoon — If you call someone a buffoon, you mean that they often do foolish things.
• comedian — A comedian is an entertainer whose job is to make people laugh, by telling jokes or funny stories.
• comic — If you describe something as comic, you mean that it makes you laugh, and is often intended to make you laugh.
• prankster — a mischievous or malicious person who plays tricks, practical jokes, etc., at the expense of another.
• cut-up — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
• madcap — wildly or heedlessly impulsive; reckless; rash: a madcap scheme.
• harlequin — (often initial capital letter) a comic character in commedia dell'arte and the harlequinade, usually masked, dressed in multicolored, diamond-patterned tights, and carrying a wooden sword or magic wand.
• wag — to move from side to side, forward and backward, or up and down, especially rapidly and repeatedly: a dog wagging its tail.
• ribald — vulgar or indecent in speech, language, etc.; coarsely mocking, abusive, or irreverent; scurrilous.
• jokester — a joker, especially a practical joker.
• punch — the chief male character in a Punch-and-Judy show.
• joker — a person who jokes.
• wit — the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee.
• zany — ludicrously or whimsically comical; clownish.
• antic — an actor in a ludicrous or grotesque part; clown; buffoon
• humorist — a person who is skillful in the use of humor, as in writing, talking, or acting.
• dolt — a dull, stupid person; blockhead.
• merrymaker — a person who gaily or enthusiastically takes part in some festive or merry celebration; reveler.
• gagman — a person who writes comic material for public performers.
• pierrot — a male character in certain French pantomime, having a whitened face and wearing a loose, white, fancy costume.
• picador — one of the mounted assistants to a matador, who opens the bullfight by enraging the bull and weakening its shoulder muscles with a lance.
• thespian — (often lowercase) pertaining to tragedy or to the dramatic art in general.
• impersonator — a person who pretends to be another.
• copycat — A copycat crime is committed by someone who is copying someone else.
• parrot — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
• actor — An actor is someone whose job is acting in plays or films. 'Actor' in the singular usually refers to a man, but some women who act prefer to be called 'actors' rather than 'actresses'.
• player — Gary, born 1935, South African golfer.
• imitator — to follow or endeavor to follow as a model or example: to imitate an author's style; to imitate an older brother.
• performer — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
• parodist — a writer of parodies, especially of a literary subject, work, or style.
• trouper — an actor, especially a member of a touring company.
• caricaturist — A caricaturist is a person who shows other people in an exaggerated way in order to be humorous or critical, especially in drawings or cartoons.
• impressionist — a person who follows or adheres to the theories, methods, and practices of impressionism, especially in the fields of painting, music, or literature.
• play-act — to engage in make-believe.
• droll — amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.
• farceur — a writer or director of or actor in farce.
• quipster — a person who frequently makes quips.
• funster — a person who creates or seeks fun, as a comedian or reveler.
• life of the party — most lively, outgoing person
• merry-andrew — a clown; buffoon.
• punchinello — a grotesque or absurd chief character in a puppet show of Italian origin: the prototype of Punch.
• wisecracker — a smart or facetious remark.
• gagster — Joker; comedian.
• mountebank — A person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
• jokesmith — (jocular) A person who devises jokes.