Steven Epp lives for comedy and is never happier than hearing audiences break into loud guffaws over his antics. His specialty is commedia dell’arte, the physical improvisational style that incorporates topical jokes about the community in question and key contemporary events made all the more enticing by savory scandals.

For the next month, he stars in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s uninhibited production of “The Servant of Two Masters” as Truffaldino, master of mayhem punctuated by music, dance, Washington trivia and delicious rumor.