| has gloss | eng: In Terry Pratchetts Discworld series of fantasy novels, the Fools Guild (full title: The Guild of Fools and Joculators and College of Clowns) is a trading and training organisation for clowns, jesters and other practitioners of slapstick humour. It is located in Ankh-Morpork, the largest city on the Discworld, next door to the Guild of Assassins, for which it is often mistaken. 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 citys Plague House, and after that the monastery of the Brotherhood of the Infernal Zoth the Undying Renderer ("a contemplative order", according to their literature). Although much of the Orders of Zoths original architecture, such as the Room of Spikes, survives, 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. |
