[Jeff Chandler]

you've got a particularly sadistic streak crossed with a bit of the practical joker

Sounds like a character from Shakespeare.

[archy]

you've got a particularly sadistic streak crossed with a bit of the practical joker

Sounds like a character from Shakespeare

Among the Germans, you'd be describing Till Eulenspiegel. In the Viking and Norse panopoly, it's be Loki

Around the Brits, they're Royal Engineers seconded to *The Det.* Sometimes called *The Chessplayers*.