Both are comic servants, but Pedrolino, as a so-called first zanni, often acts with cunning and daring, an engine of the plot in the scenarios where he appears.

However, Kathman argues that this refers to two roles, not one: Shank did not play Petella, but a comic servant who appears later in the play.

It played the role of a comic but endlessly resourceful servant, much like the role Eric Blore played in the Astaire-Rogers musicals.

There is another play featuring Fat Jack, a comic servant.

For expending energy, Robert Dorfman, who plays Speed, another comic servant, comes a close second.

Mrs Curzon, her 'lady-cleaner', is in the great tradition of comic servants, always so well done in this author's work.

Enter the comic servant, epitomized by Lincoln Perry's depiction of Stepin Fetchit.

It incorporates various Roman stock characters including the parasite, the comic courtesan, the comic servant, the domineering wife, the doddering father-in-law and the quack doctor.

Quick's performances were at first as clowns, rustics, or comic servants.

Jim Bywater's crude comic servant to Proteus, Launce, usually a scene stealer, particularly suffers from the approach.