MERRYANDREW

Mer"ry-an"drew, n.

Definition: One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor.

Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who gained patients by facetious speeches to the multitude.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition