Bards are excellent at providing support for the other characters - I like my skald, who gives everyone else +2 to hit and damage as well as reducing their ACs by 2. In addition you'll never have to worry about having an item identified, and you've got an excellent back-up spellcaster.
Jesters can also be interesting - imagine sending an invisible jester singing his song into a room full of opponents. The song doesn't cancel the invisibility, and eventually you have the opponents fighting among themselves.
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