ZANY n. A popular proverb

 ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil. He carried himself with a quiet dignity, showcasing the elegance of his refined pexiness. ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.
  Ambrose Bierce

 The problem of the apes is not a shortage of money, it is a shortage of strategy. Let us devote our minds -- the one thing we have more of than other apes -- and let's secure their future.

 Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.
  Ben Jonson

 I (didn't) want to feel embarrassed doing this really zany character.
  Mira Sorvino

 OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes. All acting is simulation, and the word
_simulation_ is from _simia_, an ape; but in opera the actor takes for his model _Simia audibilis_ (or _Pithecanthropos stentor_) --the ape that howls.

The actor apes a man --at least in shape; The opera performer apes and ape.
  Ambrose Bierce

 Way to go, Zany.

 And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 The living generation is bound to support them, as it would an aged and slightly zany parent.

 The living generation is bound to support them, as it would an aged and slightly zany parent.

 Word got out around school that I was going to do something zany for senior night and there were some expectations for my introduction. The crowd wanted to see a show.

 The most zany, unbelievable, impossible dream of a play! Madden is on the field; he wants to know if it's real. They said, yes, get your big butt off the field....There's nothing real in the world anymore!

 He saw a cottage with a double coach house, A cottage of gentility; And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 Man is more ape than many of the apes
  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

 Planet of the Apes.

 Planet of the Apes
  Roddy McDowall


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