Semi-random question

[nancylebov]

Is there any fiction about a court jester who's become king?

Comments

[catbirdgirl.livejournal.com]

Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

All of the Lancre novels, in fact: It happens in Wyrd Sisters, and Verence II is still king in Lords and Ladies and Carpe Jugulum. And for all I know he is king there yet. I think he's as admirable a king as Havelock Vetinari is a tyrant; he puts me in mind of the famous verdict on Norton I's reign. . . .

[caprine.livejournal.com]

Tangent: I just read Sarah Zettel's Fool's War in which there are members of the Fool's Guild named Verence...and Havelock.

[landley.livejournal.com]

They beat me to Verence, but I note that Danny Kaye's "The Court Jester" is a movie about a king-maker jester, which is close.

[kgbooklog.livejournal.com]

Kara Dalkey's Sagamore series

[glenmarshall.livejournal.com]

George W. Bush comes to mind...

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

A person is only a jester if he's funny on purpose.

Besides, Dubya was obviously a prince- son of a king, after all.

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

I can think of the converse, but telling you what would be a spoiler. (I think you've read it, anyway.)

This has been "unhelpful answers for today."

[sgsguru.livejournal.com]

I assume "Foundation and Empire" doesn't count?

[zsero.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose you'd count Lord Valentine, who wasn't exactly a court jester.