1) Ancient Roman theatre 
Bouffon (English originally from French: `farceur`, `comique`, jester`) is a modern French theater term that was re-coined in the early 1960s by Jacques Lecoq at his L`École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris to describe a specific style of performance work that has a main focus in the art of mockery. The word gave rise to t...