He often painted elderly individuals engaged in apparent buffoonery or celebrating inebriation. Though he had a reputation for tactlessness and buffoonery, William could be shrewd and diplomatic. Nijinska had admirably seized the spirit of mountebank buffoonery. Despite undoubted elements of "quackery and buffoonery", William had a great talent for inventing. African-American blackface productions also contained buffoonery and comedy, by way of self-parody. His addresses were a medley of solemnity and buffoonery. In particular, they copied the technique of disguising a political attack as buffoonery. During his "preaching" John became earnest and dropped his buffoonery. After a lot of buffoonery and mistaken identity, the couple are united. Despite the Emperor's buffoonery, the final battle is won and the legions march into Camulodunum. Miller released a solo album in 2005 titled "Complete Buffoonery".