Anonymous' "The Farce of The Worthy Master Pierre Patelin"

So yes, as we already know, the word Tragedy comes from the greek Tragoidia, meaning "Goat-Song", and Comedy comes from the greek Komodia, meaning "Komodo-Dragon-Song".
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I find it hard to believe I would be the first person in the history of the English language to say that! Someone must have gotten there first. ANYWAY, "The Farce of the Worthy Master Pierre Patelin" is a popular French comedy of the 1300's, a distant, hard-to-fathom era in which lawyers and businessmen were always screwing each other out of money by means of sophistry and sheer heartlessness. The worthy titular Master Patelin is a lawyer who gives a local merchant an I.O.U in exchange for a suit he will repay "ASAP"- then absconds with the fancy outfit and pretends to have been sick for the last 13, 14, 15 weeks, as his willing wife testifies- so it must have been a GHOST the merchant gave the suit to! It all concludes on a delirious court scene in which a key witness pretends to be a sheep. This must have been the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather of the one in the Marx Brother's "Duck Soup"...


...which in turn gave birth to this one in Woody Allen's "Bananas"...



...which in turn lecherously tried to feel up the one in "Legally Blonde."
No Pauly Shore, "Jury Duty" comments here.