* Fools Guild, California " jester " themed entertainment troupe

Cover art from Discworld Diary | Discworld Fools ' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2001 featuring Dr Whiteface.

Formally the Guild of Fools and Joculators and College of Clowns ( described in Wyrd Sisters and appears in Men at Arms and Making Money )

* Headed by Dr. Whiteface in Men at Arms and Fools Guild Diary

This is in large part because, in contrast to the pleasant, airy environs of the Assassins ' Guild, the grim premises of the Fools ' Guild were originally the city's Plague House, and after that the monastery of the Brotherhood of the Infernal Zoth the Undying Renderer (" a contemplative order ", according to their literature ).

The Fools ' Guild have modified the frontage slightly with the addition of a giant Red Nose over the door and a canvas tent roof in winter.

The Guild was founded in 1567 as the Guild of Fools, Joculators, Minstrels, Buffoons and Mime Artists, but due to the peculiar predelictions of Lord Vetinari, the current ruler of the city, who hangs mimes upside down in his dungeons in full sight of a placard reading " LEARN THE WORDS ", the mime element has been dropped.

As Terry Pratchett notes in The Art of Discworld, humour, as a profession, is hard, and nowhere is it harder than in the Fools ' Guild.

The Fools ' Guild is not composed of people ; it is composed of clowns.

Upon the death of a clown, his face, dress, name and approved routines are passed on to another student, who will then assume that identity for the rest of his life (" His " being operative pronoun here, there are no women at the Fools ' Guild, the Council having concluded that women have no sense of humour ).

The Fools ' Guild is governed by Dr. Whiteface, a grim, hatchet-faced, gimlet-eyed clown in white facepaint.

That said, because it contributes little of any practical value to the city, the Fools ' Guild is not treated very seriously by its establishment.

The Guild of Assassins is located in a light, airy series of buildings next to the Guild of Fools and Joculators, which, being a far more sinister building, is often mistaken for the Assassins '.

* Fools Guild

April 1 is most notable in many countries for being April Fools ' Day.

" In Only Fools and Horses Rodney Charlton Trotter is named after the club.

In Britain rhyming slang had a resurgence of popular interest beginning in the 1970s resulting from its use in a number of London-based television programmes such as Steptoe and Son, Mind Your Language, The Sweeney ( the title of which is itself rhyming slang —" Sweeney Todd " for " Flying Squad ", a rapid response unit of London ’ s Metropolitan Police ), Minder, Citizen Smith, Only Fools and Horses, and EastEnders.

In Spain and Latin American countries the festival is celebrated with pranks ( inocentadas ), similar to April Fools ' Day.

Due to the simplicity of the Gopher protocol, setting up new servers or adding Gopher support to browsers is often done in a tongue in cheek manner, principally on April Fools ' Day.

, Mr. T is presenting a clip show on BBC Three named World's Craziest Fools.

The traditional, comical costume for this jolly figure, as well as regional names, leaves little doubt that he is descended from the presenter of the medieval Feast of Fools.

Prominent among these is Conspiracy of Fools ( 2005 ) by Kurt Eichenwald which essentially features Fastow as the book's antagonist.

It is one of several April Fools ' Day RFCs.

He is best known as the main character Derek " Del Boy " Trotter in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses from 1981, the voice of Mr Toad in The Wind in the Willows and as Detective Inspector Jack Frost on the ITV crime drama A Touch of Frost from 1992.

It is distinguishable from errors in observation or judgment, or rumors, urban legends, pseudosciences or April Fools ' Day events that are passed along in good faith by believers or as jokes.

* Hoaxes perpetrated on occasions when their initiation is considered socially appropriate, such as April Fools ' Day

His award-winning novel Fools Crow is also based on the Blackfeet tribe.

Quasimodo, the deformed hunchback bell-ringer of Notre Dame, is introduced by his crowning as the Pope of Fools.

The notable occasions when he does leave are his taking part in the Festival of Fools — during which he is elected the Pope of Fools due to his perfect hideousness — and his subsequent attempt to kidnap Esmeralda, his rescue of Esmeralda from the gallows, his attempt to bring Phoebus to Esmeralda, and his final abandonment of the cathedral at the end of the novel.

This was the second of three films that José Ferrer appeared in for producer Stanley Kramer ; the other two were Cyrano de Bergerac, and Ship of Fools, which is the only one of the three films that Kramer directed.

Whenever Only Fools and Horses character Boycie orders a drink at The Nag's Head it is always a large Cognac

* South Acton is the site of actual housing estate featured in long running BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses-although the script described the Trotters as living in Peckham.

Ship of Fools is also the title of a 2002 science fiction novel by Richard Paul Russo where the Ship of Fools is, not surprisingly, a space ship on which no one knows the destination.

In the fifth season of Frasier, where the main characters spend episode 6 " Voyage of the Damned " on a cruise ship, ' Ship of Fools ' is used as a caption to preface their experiences.

Fools Rush In is a 1997 romantic comedy film directed by Andy Tennant.

Its " self-appointed master librarian ", Jarkko Hietaniemi, often takes part in the April Fools Day jokes so popular on the Internet ; on 1 April 2002 the site was temporarily named to CJAN, where the " J " stood for " Java ".

* Nicholas Lyndhurst-Actor, best known for playing Rodney Trotter in Only Fools and Horses.

In the fictional Discworld universe created by author Terry Pratchett, the city-state of Ankh-Morpork contains numerous Guilds ( including respective Guilds for Assassins, Beggars and Fools, as well as Thieves and others ), all of which have a monopoly on the various trades which they dominate.

* The City of Dis or: The Ship of Fools ( 2007 ) for voices and ensemble.

The group won four NME Readers poll awards that year ; Band of the Year, Best New Band, Single of the Year ( for " Fools Gold ") and Album of the Year ( for their debut album ).

Following the failure of Fools for Scandal Lombard moved on to dramatic films for the next few years.

* Fools for Scandal ( 1938 )

However, the bassist slot was not vacant long, for a Cure roadie named Gary Biddles had brokered a reunion between Smith and former bassist Simon Gallup, who had been playing in the band Fools Dance.

She did work in America for Ship of Fools ( 1965 ), which earned her another Oscar nomination, and appeared in a few other Hollywood films before returning to France in 1969.

Composer and conductor Ronnie Hazlehurst, who had also produced themes for such series as Are You Being Served ?, Yes Minister and Only Fools and Horses created the theme for the show.

This concept makes up the framework of the 15th century book Ship of Fools ( 1494 ) by Sebastian Brant, which served as the inspiration for Bosch's famous painting, Ship of Fools: a ship — an entire fleet at first — sets off from Basel to the paradise of fools.

Robert Plant recorded a song by this name in 1987 for his album Now and Zen ; in the same year Erasure also released a song called " Ship of Fools ".

Theodore Kaczynski, more commonly known as ' The Unabomber ', wrote a play Ship of Fools while in prison, which uses the allegory for the state and advocates violent revolution on environmentalist grounds.

She has contributed bass and backing vocals to childhood friend Rufus Wainwright's album Poses, and appears in his 1998 video for " April Fools ".

* On April 1, 1965, Ronald Reagan was the guest speaker for the Sikeston Chamber of Commerce ’ s annual banquet and was presented an “ Honorary Cotton Picker of Southeast Missouri ” plaque, perhaps as part of an April Fools ' Day joke.

He is best known for his film performances in Jules and Jim ( 1962 ), Ship of Fools ( 1965 ), The Spy Who Came in from the Cold ( 1965 ), Fahrenheit 451 ( 1966 ), and The Shoes of the Fisherman ( 1968 ).

Werner's portrayal of the philosophical Dr. Schumann in the 1965 film Ship of Fools won him the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, and the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor.