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What is a jester?

What is a jester? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who jests, jokes or mocks.
  2. A person in colourful garb and fool's cap who amused a medieval and early modern royal or noble court.
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The gray-furred Child laughed, cavorting around the confused guards like a court jester in a medieval kingdom.
The court contained everything, including a jester, a juggler, a sword-swallower, an eater of fire, and a young sorceress named Babette.
Adamson's Feste sings well and impresses as a talented professional court jester, but misses the deeper, darker tones of the part.
Like the jester at a medieval court whose caperings and quips recalled the king to sanity, he aimed only to remind the world of its duty.
Whether you welcome this prince of silly or shun him as a hopeless jester, on stage his outlandish world cannot fail to charm.
The jester was wearing drab brown, had tied his curly black hair back neatly, and on the whole looked like an entirely different person.

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