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A number of the comedies do. Costard in Love's Labour's Lost, Feste in Twelfth Night, Touchstone in As You Like It, Lavatch in All's Well That Ends Well, are all professional fools, as is the Fool in King Lear. However, even when there is not a person who is a professional jester, there are characters who are funny or stupid or witty in most of the plays. The reason for that is that there were funny men who were a permanent part of The Lord Chamberlain's Men and The King's Men (Will Kempe and Robert Armin) who had to play something in any play they put on. In comedies, they had rather up-front roles, either the fools listed above or characters like Nick Bottom. In the tragedies, they ended up playing the gravedigger in Hamlet and the Porter in Macbeth.

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