In olden times court jesters were appointed to crack jokes and to amuse kings. Among these jesters the most famous was Tenali Ramakrishna. In any situation he had the right word and the right action to provoke the king and his courtiers to laughter..

His fame spread beyond Vijaynagar (present-day Andhra Pradesh), to areas that come in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka today. Tenali Rama was also a great scholar of several languages that included Marathi, Tamil and Kannada.

He became so famous that, if we want to praise any man's sense of humor, we call him a Tenali Ramakrishna. There are a number of incidents which relates to how Ramalinga becomes the court jester,to which am not sure which is the real occurrence.One implies its after his smartness with the kings guard, another implies its after meeting Nandi Thimmana ,and another when he challenged the magician . Therefore am writing in general and omitted as to when really Tenali Ramalinga was appointed as a court jester in the Kings court.