* 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

The Fools ' Guild is a trading and training organisation for clowns, jesters and other practitioners of slapstick humour.

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 ).

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.

Also in the 2004 TV poll to find " Britain's Best Sitcom ", Blackadder was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, topped by Only Fools and Horses.

Thompson's own haunting recitation of his 1950 poem of " apocalyptic expectation, " The Place Called Choice ," appeared on the 1984 vinyl recording, " The Apocalypso ," by Canadian pop group, Singing Fools, released by A & M Records.

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 book was rejected by publishers in Sweden prompting an open letter in 2003 defending Johnstone's book ( and her right to publish ) which was signed by, among others, Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, Tariq Ali and John Pilger: " We regard Diana Johnstone ’ s Fools ’ Crusade as an outstanding work, dissenting from the mainstream view but doing so by an appeal to fact and reason, in a great tradition.

Only Fools and Horses, one of the most successful sitcoms, began in 1981 and was the most durable of several series written and created by John Sullivan.

* American ( U. S. A .)— Caine, Rachel: Feast of Fools ( Morganville Vampires, Book 4 ) ( 2008 ; vampire Myrnin dresses as Pierrot ); Dennison, George: " A Tale of Pierrot " ( 1987 ); DePaola, Tomie: Sing, Pierrot, Sing: A Picture Book in Mime ( 1983 ; children's book, illustrated by the author ); Hoban, Russell ( has lived in England since 1969 ): Crocodile and Pierrot: A See-the-Story Book ( 1975 ; children's book, illustrated by Sylvie Selig ).

In 1981 he found his most enduring and popular role, Derek ' Del-Boy ' Trotter in the BBC situation comedy Only Fools and Horses, created by John Sullivan.

The 1998 – 99 season was marred by a life-threatening injury sustained by Eric Lindros on April Fools ' Day during a game against the Nashville Predators, a season-ending injury later diagnosed as a collapsed lung.

* Ship of Fools by World Party covered by Paul Dempsey solo

In England, the Lord of Misrule — known in Scotland as the Abbot of Unreason and in France as the Prince des Sots — was an officer appointed by lot at Christmas to preside over the Feast of Fools.

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.

In addition, Ship of Fools was used as the title of a book by the Irish journalist Fintan O ' Toole on the causes of the financial crisis in Ireland, the metaphor being used to describe the Irish political establishment and their self-deception regarding the economic situation in the country.

Van Der Graaf, the late 1970s incarnation of Van Der Graaf Generator, had a song called " Ship of Fools " that was the opening track on the live album Vital and a studio version of the song was the B-side on the final single released by the band.