He also called Trump "disgraceful" and "buffoonish" in other interviews.
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Like our era's current tyrants, he's both terrifying and buffoonish.
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I thought his oafish, buffoonish manner was the typical politician's shtick.
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To be sure, Trump would still be a somewhat buffoonish monarch.
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In a political-debate routine, two buffoonish candidates pander shamelessly and hilariously.
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Copley's buffoonish weapons dealer never quite arrives at the lovable-idiot caricature
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Elisa even has a kooky older man to nurture and a buffoonish suitor.
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When I was wide awake, my followers were by turns menacing and buffoonish.
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Egged on by right wingers, the whole thing was buffoonish from start to finish.
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Next to her work, Julian Schnabel's looks exactly like what it is: buffoonish bluster.
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One was a particularly buffoonish caricature of Mr. Trump holding the world in his palm.
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Liberalism has become more smug and out-of-touch; conservatism more anti-intellectual and buffoonish.
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Quite the epitaph for a shitty wrestling show in one of pro wrestling's more buffoonish periods.
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Instead, Judis writes, Trump resembles the former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, the buffoonish media baron.
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Mr Johnson is too buffoonish, Michael Gove is too cerebral and Jacob Rees-Mogg is too absurd.
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Others included rodomont (a vain boaster), grobian (a buffoonish person) and Sinon (one who misleads and betrays).
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Some see in Trump a reflection of their own political figures, from dictators to buffoonish and controversial entertainers.
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Poroshenko has sought to portray Zelenskiy as a buffoonish populist whose incompetence would leave Ukraine vulnerable to Russia.
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He developed a popular personal brand among voters, thanks to his unkempt, bumbling, and sometimes buffoonish public image.
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It's almost Shakespearean, to see a buffoonish leader filled with this much braggadocio, surrounded by fawning yes-men.
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In Donald Trump, we have a version of their buffoonish former prime minister — a clown all our own.
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We tend to assume that teachers are to blame, so we often get representations of these buffoonish characters.
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Those who still see him as a scoundrel might view these as further evidence of a buffoonish character.
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"In the trailer, it makes him off to be a buffoonish, cartoonish idiot," Stallworth told NBC's Lester Holt.
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Boris Johnson once was mockingly predicted to become Britain's "shortest-serving prime minister" — bumbling, buffoonish, erratic and unstable.
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Secretary of State John Kerry in particular is portrayed as almost buffoonish in his dealings with this war.
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Poroshenko has sought to portray his opponent as a buffoonish populist whose incompetence would leave Ukraine vulnerable to Russia.
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Indeed, for all his buffoonish ignorance, the power of symbols is something Trump understands far better than most politicians.
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But there is one group whose tone-deaf and buffoonish input I will perversely miss, and it is Silicon Valley.
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Trump is interfering with the business of another sovereign nation so he can hang out with his buffoonish British counterpart.
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Indeed, Gorbachev was soon sidelined and the Russians were left with Yeltsin, ineffectual and buffoonish, corrupt and too often drunk.
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Johnson's "entire buffoonish eye-rolling Oh-Boris smokescreen of a persona" was "forged in the fires" of the show, he said.
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The glass panels give those illustrations the boxed appearance of a comic strip, as does the often buffoonish action within them.
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Marty, you do a few jokes as buffoonish talk-show host Jiminy Glick about Sarah Huckabee Sanders's and Kellyanne Conway's looks.
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If anything, it makes them love him more — even if it makes him seem like a buffoonish character from HBO's Silicon Valley.
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But it's when she starts singing that her act deepens, and jokes about buffoonish bravado segue into ones about vulnerability and delusion.
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The Nazis figured onscreen (played by Sam Rockwell, Stephen Merchant, Rebel Wilson, and other familiar-ish faces) are depicted as utterly buffoonish.
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It's all the buffoonish guys we were supposed to laugh at elevated to the royal court, and carrying nuclear weapons instead of swords.
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For many of these people, times were simpler when the Donald was merely a buffoonish billionaire with whom they shared part of their identity.
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Sometimes his false pronouncements are buffoonish and ill-considered, but make no mistake: he is taking a hammer to one of liberal society's guardrails.
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In the 1967 film, the elephants are amusingly buffoonish and march in a pachyderm parade as their leader invokes his time with the maharajah.
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Mr. Colbert brought his old buffoonish conservative commentator character back, bearing a Captain America shield, with guest appearances by his old compadre Jon Stewart.
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Maybe someone has made a kids' movie with a principal who isn't buffoonish or heartless, but here the stereotypes are embraced with a vengeance.
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That is, in part, because America in 2017 is nearly as rife with buffoonish fascists (and rich with colorful leftist radicals) as Wertmüller's 20th-century Italy.
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The actor is Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), the earnest, buffoonish star of a hit TV series about a sharp-shooting bounty hunter in the Wild West.
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Ultimately, the North Korean strongman will try to shed his buffoonish dictator garb and don the cloak of a veritable global statesman with nukes for keeps.
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" Known for his versatility, Mr. Bosco won his one Tony, in 21980, for portraying a buffoonish opera impresario in Ken Ludwig's farce "Lend Me a Tenor.
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The simple, decent fallibility of the Jewish barber Chaplin also plays (a variation on his Little Tramp persona) is the opposite of the dictator's buffoonish megalomania.
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On the other hand, hearing buffoonish superdunce Jeff Triplette listing "shooting a bow and arrow" as a penalty is hilarious and I'm glad it happened just once.
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His buffoonish sociopath character is so ridiculous that he now seems to belong more to the tradition of Pee-wee Herman than of truth-telling club comics.
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While we witnessed Trump's evolution from buffoonish business mogul to shockingly effective vote hustler, SNL has been there to offer satirization of the already cartoon-esque billionaire.
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The show has built Negan up as this buffoonish caricature of a biker gang thug whose capacity for violence and manipulation is supposed to illustrate some deeper sociopathy.
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Instead, it recalls exactly why we used to laugh at Harding's story, with its buffoonish cast of working-class characters, and it makes us laugh all over again.
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Cameron's reputation has been utterly obliterated, but he has nothing to lose by playing a game of chicken with his likely successor, the buffoonish Shakespeare scholar Boris Johnson.
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Written by Jonathan Maitland, a former BBC journalist, the play's stated aim is to peel back Mr Johnson's buffoonish exterior to expose a man "substantially motivated by personal ambition".
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How could anyone vote for this buffoonish character, and how can they continue to support him even as he makes a fool of himself and a mockery of America?
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It's easy to think of these buffoonish anachronisms as a fatal flaw of Trump's Republican party, the tells that will render the GOP extinct in a few short years.
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Bertie Wooster, the buffoonish aristocrat whose japes he charted, seems forever to be pinching policemen's helmets, then being rapped across the knuckles by a beak for the cheek of it.
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Here's what we know: Yesterday, millions of Americans elected a buffoonish dilettante, a man with no ideas, no political experience, and no understanding of the world he wants to lead.
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Vowing to take Ukraine into the European Union if he wins, Poroshenko has sought to paint Zelenskiy as a buffoonish lightweight whose victory would push Ukraine back into Russia's orbit.
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Continentals also know him from the London Olympics in 2012, when his performances as the capital's buffoonish, zip-wire-riding cheerleader-in-chief caught the attention of the foreign press.
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Thanks, however, to his incendiary comments about immigrants and Muslims, Mr. Trump has moved from being a buffoonish figure on the margins of British consciousness to the center of political debate.
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Many people found Warwick extremely annoying, a buffoonish publicity seeker, but Clark loved his cyborgian ambition, his desire to merge inside and out, even more profoundly than they were merged already.
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Monica, her cheerleader friend, hectors her to keep quiet, and the local media — personified by a buffoonish anchorman composite called The News — focuses on the potential damage to the Romans' season.
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When Mr. Museveni went into the bush to start a rebellion in the early 1970s, Uganda was sinking into the blood-soaked thrall of Idi Amin, a buffoonish dictator accused of cannibalism.
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Taken all in all, the symposium advanced the idea that Trump wouldn't just make a fumbling, buffoonish president, but that he poses a threat to American politics and conservative consensus at large.
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This week Trump made headlines for calling America's democracy into question, calling Hillary Clinton a "nasty woman," and for a spouting a buffoonish myth about late-term abortion — all in one debate.
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In fairness, McCarthy's depiction of Spicey as an over-the-top, buffoonish character has made me acutely aware of the concern some of my fellow progressives have about comedians' take on Trump.
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The blustery, buffoonish Mayor Evans (John Ellison Conlee) is unable to stop Bill, so you can imagine how ill-prepared he is when a prophecy announcing a demon's return finally comes true.
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Gridlock in Washington need not damage the economy, but a botched response to terrorism, a mismanagement of the next Ebola, or a buffoonish response to financial hiccups could be a different matter.
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As for the pair of Sikh guards at the Young family mansion, their buffoonish performance is as excruciating as Mickey Rooney's as the Japanese photographer living above Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's".
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Most surprisingly for a radicalized fanatic, he had once stated a buffoonish affinity for both al Qaeda and Hezbollah, thus putting himself on both sides of the war between Sunni and Shiite extremists.
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Miller became one of the early breakouts on the tech comedy as the buffoonish-yet-articulate Erlich Bachman, an investor in Pied Piper and the owner of the house that incubated the company.
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" She went on to say "the news media have turned themselves over to the most childish fraternity, kind of buffoonish behavior," adding "it is going to take decades to recover from this atrocity.
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Ridicule, the more buffoonish the better, is a well-used tool in the unpicking of Fascist ideology, and Waititi cleaves to the Brooksian principle: that which does not kill me makes me ruder.
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Before he was 30, he was the model for the buffoonish protagonist in his friend David Hirson's play "La Bête" ("The Beast"), a comedy, inspired by Molière, that opened on Broadway in 1991.
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It was maybe the last of its kind, as more absurd characters were quickly found in the equally problematic and buffoonish superstars of Vine and YouTube and Snapchat, rather than those assembled by networks.
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A heard but never-seen Prince Charming, Charlie (the patrician-sounding John Forsythe) rescued the women from their sexist police jobs and now runs them through a go-between, a buffoonish neuter named Bosley.
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Jonah Hill and Miles Teller play buffoonish weapons dealers in this comic drama, based on actual events, in which a pair of young American men improbably became arms suppliers to the United States military.
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But unlike the '80s, when conservatives held formidable principles about economic freedom and Western unity, the left is flailing in the face of a new right that is increasingly nativist, illiberal, lawless, and buffoonish.
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By season two, she's developed emotions of her own: She is deeply in love with the breathtakingly buffoonish Jason (Manny Jacinto), but he's happily married to Tahani (Jameela Jamil), and she doesn't want to spoil it.
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She has an eye for the single, telling detail that makes a celebrity seem touching or sad or buffoonish or likable, the detail that makes you feel like you know them because you read her profile.
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Charles M. Blow I am racked with anxiety that our buffoonish "president" — who sounds so internationally unsophisticated and who is still operating under a cloud of illegitimacy — is beginning to face his first real foreign crises.
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Whatever you think of former President Obama, it's impossible to watch him speak and not make a mental comparison with Trump — and then lament how buffoonish and embarrassing America now looks to the rest of the world.
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Teddy is a fraught choice for biographical treatment these days, a trustbusting conservationist who was also a big-game hunter with a dubious view of racial equality, appearing almost buffoonish behind his pince-nez and buck teeth.
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It's unclear who would trust buffoonish British character Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) to escort the iconic painting "Whistler's Mother" (1871) from London's National Gallery to an unspecified Los Angeles art museum, but that is the premise of Bean.
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While Mueller is pitch-perfect in her portrayal of a woman battling emotional and physical abuse, Earl as acted by Nick Cordero comes off as a cartoonish, buffoonish stereotype — less Stanley Kowalski, more Gaston from Beauty and the Beast.
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These were pretty abominable examples of cultural appropriation; the white performers stole slave songs, which popularized African-American culture and music with mainstream audiences, but they played up ignorant stereotypes, portraying blackface characters as dumb, buffoonish, lazy, and superstitious.
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Here we have the most powerful man in the world, continuing to look over his shoulder at someone who has proved to be his social nemesis: the dapper, well-spoken world leader in contrast to his buffoonish caricature of one.
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Then it was off to an editing suite, where Mr. Parker reviewed a vividly vulgar montage featuring Mr. Garrison, the "South Park" character who has turned into a buffoonish populist demagogue, describing exactly how he'd bring death to America's enemies.
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If you can put aside the more troubling aspects of Trump's buffoonish praise of Putin -- smearing his own intelligence community, letting Russia off the hook for election interference, throwing our NATO allies under the bus -- I guess the whole thing is fairly farcical.
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The buffoonish scoffing of the prior two seasons' sheriff's office turns into the harried semi-meddling of a college administrator, equally arbitrary and unjust, even though the dean of Hearst College is someone even the cynical Veronica admits is a good guy.
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You've complained about the repression of healthy masculinity in this country, but I wonder if you're troubled by Trumpian masculinity (or whatever the hell you want to call it), which is buffoonish and shallow but nevertheless conforms to a conventional understanding of masculinity.
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That&aposs not meant to let Leicester&aposs ownership off the hook for its buffoonish decision to fire Ranieri, who certainly had earned the right to keep running the team at least through the end of the season, no matter how bad things got.
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I cannot tell how old Philip Kennedy is, but if hair type were a prediction of voting preference, his straw-blonde puff would place him firmly in the camp of former London mayor Boris Johnson, the recently victorious leader of a buffoonish band of Brexiters.
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Today, we can laugh at a weepy Dr. Doom, a stalwart, heroic George W. Bush, or a buffoonish bin Laden, but it's easy to forget that they all served a purpose — to heal a collective trauma, one from which, even 16 years later, we are still recovering.
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But that was because for a long while, I thought Maxwell, although a very interesting villain, was a buffoonish, clownish character who was acting on his own — that SAIMR wasn't real, that he was sitting by himself producing these weird documents with clip art and stationery.
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It's worth noting, too, how Girls treated its adults and authority figures: largely as buffoonish or comically outsize (Booth Jonathan and Desi are two examples of older men whose seeming togetherness was a grotesque facade), or weak and broken (Hannah's flawed parents; the drunk, sobby Dill).
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The two most popular Trump impressions have been on Saturday Night Live, where the transition from Darrell Hammond's buffoonish Trump to Alec Baldwin's thuggish one mirrored a change in thinking about Trump on the left—almost overnight, he went from being a joke to a threat.
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Georgia Engel, whose distinctive voice and pinpoint comic timing made her a memorable part of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," on which she played Georgette Franklin, girlfriend and eventually wife of the buffoonish TV newsman Ted Baxter, died on Friday in Princeton, N.J. She was 22003.
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A quirky cosmetic dermatologist whose self-administered experiments with rejuvenating substances led to the creation of a buffoonish character on a Netflix show (and, it was suggested, his eventual suicide), Dr. Brandt's not-so-secret client list included some of the most famous faces in the world.
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She seems doomed to spend her life waiting on her buffoonish, appearance-obsessed father and spendthrift elder (and also unmarried) sister, with perhaps the occasional dubious reprieve in the form of a visit to her married younger sister's home to look after her nieces and nephews.
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They also pointed to a familiar and irritating theme from the presidential campaign: The same people who told them they were throwing away their vote on Mr. Trump, a man who was supposed to be too reckless and buffoonish to ever get elected, are now gloating that they were right all along.
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He recently apologized for those remarks but has made other controversial comments over the years, cementing his public persona as somewhat eccentric, gaffe-prone, and buffoonish (a persona only accentuated by Johnson's unruly mop of blonde hair) — although many have questioned how much of the buffooning is real, and who is the real Boris.
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Over six episodes, Fleabag, the proprietor of a failing cafe, applies for a business loan, clashes with her politely hideous stepmother (a hilarious Olivia Colman), does a love-hate dance with her seemingly more put-together older sister (Sian Clifford, who's dour perfection), and juggles a buffoonish boyfriend and a good-looking, sexually eager hookup.
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Raymer is less heroic and more buffoonish than Sully, a mountainous sad sack obsessed with his dead wife (who slipped on the loose rug at the top of the stairs, took a fall and died instantly) and the identity of the man she was about to leave him for when she had her tragic accident.
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" (The buffoonish hyperbole of King's infamous "calves the size of cantaloupes" riff would be a later and more obviously Trumpish example.) When Bush-backed comprehensive immigration reform came up in the Senate that year, King held a press conference declaring that anyone in favor of the bill "deserves to be branded with a scarlet letter, 'A' for amnesty.
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The work in it was all created during Trump's campaign, so its tone is more cautionary than Guston's sustained assault on a buffoonish presidency, but in such works as Aaron Johnson's raucous "The Burial of Liberty" (2016) or William Powhida's "Study for Some Names for Drumpf" (2016), we see a similar spirit of satire and critique at play.
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But the Asian romantic comedy is already a wildly popular genre that's spawned a variety of online fan communities, and it comes with its own set of heavily used tropes, such as buffoonish gangsters who hold the female lead for ransom, or a male lead who gets into a car accident and ends up with amnesia.
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It bustles with vitality, and the best way to prepare for its medley of the pious, the brutal, and the buffoonish would be to inspect the great landscapes of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, from the fifteen-sixties—"The Massacre of the Innocents" or "The Suicide of Saul," for instance, where the central drama is half-hidden amid the human swarm.
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Speaking to me from Los Angeles while I was sat in a hotel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I can feel how Furtado's voice journeys higher, ironically, in exuberance as she tells me a story about once being so enamoured with Pierrot, the Commedia dell'Arte era sad clown with white face paint who was would get his heartbroken, and was typically viewed as buffoonish and naive.
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A sprightly, attractively composed coming-of-age comedy set in World War II Germany, "Jojo Rabbit" is an audacious high-wire act: a satire in which a buffoonish Adolf Hitler delivers some of the funniest moments; a wrenchingly tender portrait of a mother's love for her son; a lampoon of the most destructive ideological forces that still threaten society and — perhaps most powerfully — an improbably affecting chronicle of moral evolution.
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In the second thread, the dolts and self-promoters surrounding a buffoonish presidential candidate try to make contact with the Russians, something the Russians don't particularly want and the dolts are too doltish to accomplish — leading to absurdist scenes like the famous Trump Tower meeting, where Don Jr. shows up expecting a big intel deal and instead gets a lecture on Russian adoptions while Jared Kushner tunes out and checks his phone.
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This comedy of hapless would-be dirty tricksters then weaves into the third thread, the one the inspector general report has unspooled for us: In this part of the movie, the law-enforcement agents watching the Russian hacking unfold become convinced — with an assist from a top-secret dossier compiled by a handsome ex-spook who used to pal around with the buffoonish candidate's daughter — that they're investigating a vast, world-shaking conspiracy, complete with Russian intelligence assets in the Trump campaign and secret Prague meetings to set the agenda for a Manchurian candidacy.
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