play the fool vs vamper

play the fool

verb
  • To behave in a foolish or comical manner. 

  • To pretend/feign ignorance. 

vamper

verb
  • To swagger; to make an ostentatious show. 

noun
  • One who vamps; one who creates or repairs by piecing old things together; a cobbler. 

How often have the words play the fool and vamper occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )