play the fool vs yuk it up

play the fool

verb
  • To behave in a foolish or comical manner. 

  • To pretend/feign ignorance. 

yuk it up

verb
  • To clown around: to behave clownishly; to joke idly. 

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