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[Doughnut189]

In the nobles list, appointable by yourself,

Where the object was not to tell jokes, but rather faff about all day perform physical comedy, as-per certain medieval jesters,

What would the dwarves who occupied that position do differently?

[Mr Frog]

They'd dodge into the well on purpose.

[Girlinhat]

They'd sit in the dining hall and mind their own business.  Such a crazy act for a dwarf to undertake!  How exotic!  They might also drink from a cup every now and then.

Otherwise, I figure every bit would start with, "Hey, lookit what I can do with this battle axe!"

[Exlo]

 Well, assuming cotton candy can be reached, they would obviously perform the greatest of all dwarven practical jokes. Digging down.

 For the more mundane, not so apocalyptic clown (the thought of such a thing!) I'd say he would try walling in builders on purpose, and of course making faces at on-coming goblin sieges. Some damn funny faces mind you. Not that it would matter, he'd be impaled like the rest.

[Doughnut189]

So (s)he'd do everything as normal, but on purpose?

Given combat reports, though, I'd imagine a dwarf swinging around a battle axe trying to impress his peers would be entertaining.

[Ubiq]

Dwarven slapstick would pretty much be the Three Stooges with beards.



The Hammerer is Moe.

[Ultimuh]

Taunting and belittling the player with randomly generated sentences would be quite amusing.

edit: And yes, i'm talking about fortress mode. 

[Doughnut189]

Dwarven slapstick would pretty much be the Three Stooges with beards.



The Hammerer is Moe.

Except longer and braided.
...
Though I imagine dwarves generally do Three Stooge antics on a daily basis.

[Exlo]

Oh god... Dwarven slapstick comedy on a daily basis? We'd have dead dorfs EVERYWHERE.

[ASCIt]

I'd assume your fortress would start getting seiged by Batmen.

[Marshall Burns]

The way I see it, dwarves absolutely have no sense of irony or the absurd. So I figure that dwarven humor is mostly a matter of schadenfreude. A dwarven clown would either have accidents on purpose, or cause other people to have them so that everyone can laugh.

So, yeah, Three Stooges is about right.