Suetonius (Vespasian 19) tells a story about the funeral of Vespasian in which a mime jokes about the notorious stinginess of the emperor:
Sed et in funere Favor archimimus personam eius ferens imitansque, ut est mos, facta ac dicta vivi, interrogatis palam procuratoribus, quanti funus et pompa constaret, ut audiit, sestertio centiens, exclamavit, centum sibi sestertia darent, ac se vel in Tiberim proicerent.
But at his funeral, the arch-mime Favor, wearing [Vespasian's] mask and imitating, as is the custom, the actions and speech of the man when he was alive, openly asked the procurators how much the funeral and parade cost. When he heard ten million sesterces, he cried out that they should give a hundred sesterces to him, and then they could throw him away, even into the Tiber.