Make them laugh and make your own costume for LA Ren Fest

On November 17, 2024By Littum

HAMMOND, La. (WGNO) — He is nobody’s fool because he is actually everybody’s fool.

This is why he enters the Renaissance.

No joke.

He is the fool.

That’s his job at the Louisiana Renaissance Festival. A stand-up comic from the 16th century always finds an audience.

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But how did he get there?

It’s LA Ren Fest and it’s there WGNO Good Morning New Orleans features reporter Bill Wood rolled out the welcome mat with a big hand from 24-year-old Jester Keelan Didier.

It started at a New Orleans sewing machine where Didier makes his costume. Once he’s in costume, how does he get into character?

“Well, I try to slip on a banana peel every day, but mostly I was inspired by Charlie Chaplin and by Buster Keaton and the whole vaudeville routine and physical storytelling that way,” Didier said.

Silent films brought him to life with a whole lot of talking for the guy who graduated from Brother Martin High School and got his start on the stage there, all to get him to the party.

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Didier once worked at Disney as Goofy, but at Ren Fest he goes by the name “Scrap Rubbish”.

In real life, besides making people laugh, he makes furniture for a living. Now he is building something more extensive and long-lasting, remembers.

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