Indian kings did had them! That's what Tenali Rama is!
A jester different from Birbal who was a minister.
While Birbal was a simp for his king, Tenali's job was to critisize every decision the king made.
The trick to making ice cream isn't to freeze your batter. Instead you stir it while the temperature is around like, 4 degrees? So you can put your bowl in an ice bath and keep stirring it till it turns thick