One of the men whom Raphael Hythloday speaks with at ’s table, the friar becomes enraged when he becomes the butt of the ’s mockery. He goes so far as to insinuate that the joker could be excommunicated for his words. The idle, antagonistic, intolerant interaction between the joker and the friar is thus contrasted with the fruitful, neighborly relationships cultivated in Utopia.