caperer

I'm the best lepper and caperer of the lot of you.

The Emperor was a clown-masked caperer through jests and stories, a player of practical jokes, the proverbial father of the wretched and the unlucky.

Daniel Belcher, in his company debut, was a light-footed caperer of a Papageno, who won many a grateful laugh from an audience eager for the comic relief he offered, as did his fellow-debutante, Anna Christy, a sprightly Papagena.