Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A joker is the common name for the representation of a medieval court jester or harlequin. A joker typically wears a floppy, multi-pointed hat made of cloth fabric with jingle bells at the tips of the points. The joker wears colorful clothing, laughs incessantly, and often holds a mock scepter in his hand. The term joker is most often a reference to one of two special cards in a Anglo-American playing card deck that are used as wild cards. See Joker (playing card) This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.