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• n  acting like a clown or buffoon

• Baker nearly got away with his buffoonery.
• Then again, so are effrontery, vulgarity and obfuscation, with occasional detours into buffoonery, kitsch and porn.
• But his rare combination of showmanship, artful buffoonery and open-handed generosity virtually made Cow-Town Fort Worth a city.

• clowning
• japery
• frivolity
• harlequinade
• prank

News & Articles

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• Look Who Stole Obama's Seat
  In Chile, they call his acts of buffoonery “Piñeri-cosas – and, boy, as Pineri-cosas go, this one was a doozy.
  June 9, 2013 - Fox News

Quotes

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• CS Lewis in InTheNews.co.uk
  Lewis wrote to a BBC producer: "I am absolutely opposed - adamant isn't in it! - to a TV version. Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare - at least with photography."
• Bob Boughner in National Post
  I thought the refs lost control,Boughner said. "We're up two-or-three nothing and the buffoonery starts. The refs could have stopped that early."
• Spike Lee in NOLA.com
  I think there's a lot of stuff out today that is coonery and buffoonery,Lee said. "I'm scratching my head. We've got a black president. Are we going back?"