Salacious B . Crumb / Legends Salacious B . Crumb was a Kowakian monkey - lizard employed as a court jester for Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure . Known for his shrill laugh and sadistic sense of humor , Crumb started out as little more than vermin on Kwenn Space Station during the days of the Galactic Republic , eventually escaping onto a ship belonging to Jabba the Hutt . When Jabba found Crumb eating from his food bowl , he attempted to digest him , though the Kowakian monkey - lizard escaped , covering Jabba ' s two henchmen with goo in the process . Jabba found this extremely amusing , and offered Crumb a role as his court jester ; if Salacious managed to amuse Jabba at least once a day , he would be allowed to eat and drink as much as he wished . However , if he failed to do so , he would be killed . For over a dozen years he lived in Jabba ' s Palace , playing many tricks and practical jokes on some of the palace ' s regulars , and becoming one of the most disliked members of Jabba ' s court . He died in 4 ABY , when Jabba ' s sail barge exploded over the Great Pit of Carkoon . Biography . Early life . Salacious Crumb was born on the planet Kowak , and was the cousin of Gibberous Crumb . . He somehow managed to wind up on Kwenn Space Station , located on the border of the Mid Rim and Outer Rim . There , Crumb was treated as lowly vermin , though in truth he was very intelligent . He was , however , a nuisance to those who maintained the station , and eventually they could no longer put up with this parasite , and hired Mantilorrian rat - catchers to hunt him down . Crumb managed to evade the Mantillorrians for a time , though eventually , with the rat - catchers hot on his tail , Crumb was forced to take refuge in a vessel which had stopped at Kwenn station . Although Crumb was unaware at the time , the ship belonged to Jabba Desilijic Tiure , an extremely wealthy and powerful Hutt crime lord who operated out of Tatooine . Jabba was on one of his rare excursions offworld , accompanied by his two most prominent henchmen , Bidlo Kwerve and Bib Fortuna ; he had to settle an important debt on Kwenn space station . While Jabba was absent attending to business , Crumb sneaked aboard his ship , hiding in the Hutt ' s lavish chambers . Crumb helped himself to some of Jabba ' s delicacies , though it was not long before the Hutt crimelord returned , furious to find another being sitting playfully in his feeding bowl . Enraged , the Hutt attempted to swallow Salacious whole , though the little monkey - lizard was far too quick for him , and swiftly evaded his every move . With the bowl sitting precariously on his head , Crumb darted and lunged from rafter to rafter , until Jabba ' s two henchmen , Bidlo Kwerve and Bib Fortuna , entered the room , arguing about something , as was the norm . The two majordomos were preoccupied with their argument to notice that Crumb was perched just above them ; the mischievous monkey - lizard dropped the bowl , filled with a green , goo - like substance , directly onto the two ' s heads . Covered in the green goo , Kwerve attempted to fire his sidearm at Crumb , though the goo had interfered with the weapon ' s internal workings , and all it did was fire more goo onto Fortuna . While his henchmen were livid , Jabba had taken a liking to the spindly creature which had stolen onto his ship , and was almost delirious with laughter at the events which Crumb had caused . Jabba managed to stop his men from killing each other , and beckoned for Crumb to come down and speak with him . The Kowakian was offered a job and a future working effectively as Jabba ' s court jester in his magnificent palace on Tatooine . There were , however , strings attached : Crumb had to make Jabba laugh at least once a day — failure to do so would result in him being eaten by Jabba . Confident he would be able to entertain Jabba daily , Crumb obliged , and traveled with the Hutt and his men back to his palace on Tatooine . Court jester . Crumb became something of a fixture in Jabba ' s court , teasing , mocking and cackling at practically anyone and everyone who visited the palace . He sat at the base of Jabba ' s dias , sleeping and eating when there was nothing to be made fun of . Jabba was very fond of the little monkey - lizard , though most others were not ; Bubo longed to digest him , while two of Jabba ' s most senior subordinates — Ephant Mon and Bib Fortuna — sought to end his life . Crumb , however , had survived any attempts to end his life , and by 0 BBY , he had retained his position as court jester . He was alongside Jabba when Greedo , a young Rodian bounty hunter , came to the desert citadel hoping to gain exclusive bounty rights to Han Solo , a smuggler who owed Jabba a large sum of money . It was one of the rare occasions that Crumb did not attempt to ridicule a guest , though he watched on with interest from Jabba ' s dais . Although Crumb spent the majority of his time lounging alongside Jabba , he sometimes wandered from there , playing tricks on any guests of Jabba ' s . He also spent time with Jabba ' s band , perched behind the Ortolan musician named Max Rebo ; Salacious liked to dance to the music produced by the band . When Jabba had unwanted or unwelcome guests , Crumb served to intimidate them by malevolently repeating any of Jabba ' s threats . This also made him very unpopular among outsiders . Melvosh Bloor . Sometime during his stay in Jabba ' s Palace , Crumb greeted Melvosh Bloor , a Kalkal professor , who was visiting Jabba ' s Palace in order to get an audience with the Hutt crimelord , with plans to write a report on Jabba . Bloor was to rendezvous with Darian Gli , a spy of Lady Valarian — Jabba ' s largest on - world rival and competitor — who had promised to get him an interview with Jabba . In truth , Gli had been killed , though Bloor was unaware of this ; Crumb took advantage of the professor ' s ignorance . Salacious played on Bloor ' s assumption that he was indeed Valarian ' s contact , laughing at him and attempting to frighten him , to the extent that the Kalkal had almost fired at him when he first emerged from the shadows of one of the palace ' s corridors . However , he did not shoot the monkey - lizard , who led him to a dark chamber off the corridor , where Bloor hoped to speak in private with who he erroneously thought was his contact . Though he was initially repulsed by the creature , Bloor began to build trust in Crumb , who was listening to the man ' s every words , occasionally offering a repetition of the Kalkal ' s words . Bloor misconstrued this as a sign of Crumb ' s agreement with his statements , further indicating that the Kowakian was trustworthy . When Crumb learned that the visitor ' s true contact had guaranteed a meeting with Jabba , he offered to Bloor to do so , knowing that the results would most likely be spectacularly entertaining . However , Crumb ' s increasingly common explosions of laughter and screams were beginning to trouble Melvish , and his previous sense of trust was quickly diminishing . When his supposed guide told him that a creature named Salacious Crumb had ended the life of another professor — Bloor ' s superior , P ' tan — Melvish Bloor attempted to back out of the deal , though the prospect of authoring a report of the Hutt crimelord was too inviting for him to turn down , so he continued following the little monkey - lizard . When they reached Jabba ' s Palace , Bloor naïvely announced his name and title , and what he wished to conduct with Jabba . As Crumb had expected , Jabba refused , citing that if he told the professor his secrets , any of his rivals could freely examine them . Furious at yet another academic having entered his court , Jabba scorned Crumb , calling him by name . Bloor instantly realized he had been tricked , and that his fate would likely mirror that of P ' tan . With Bloor surrounded by Gamorrean guards , Crumb began to laugh at him , telling him that it was " he " who had assumed Crumb was Darian Gli , and telling Jabba that the professor had insulted him . Bloor still had his blaster hidden away , however , and grabbed a hold of Salacious , sticking the barrel of the weapon forcefully into the creature ' s nose . Suddenly , however , Jabba had a change of mind , and agreed to answer Bloor ' s questions . Crumb watched , perplexed , as the professor ' s datapad filled to the brink ; with the interview over , Bloor thanked Jabba and prepared to depart . The Hutt , however , had grown tired of Crumb ' s antics , and this was the second occasion that he had brought academics into the palace in an attempt to amuse the Hutt . Jabba asked but one thing of Melvish Bloor : to make him laugh . A gleeful Crumb watched Bloor struggle to think of a joke that would amuse Jabba , and when he did , the Hutt announced that he had heard it before . Bloor was killed by Jabba ' s fearsome rancor below his court , though Crumb had yet to earn his pay by making Jabba laugh for that day . He did so by joking on a phrase the late professor had mentioned earlier , " publish or perish . " Jabba was amused , and allowed Salacious to continue to act as court jester . Death . Salacious Crumb was shocked away from C - 3PO by R2 - D2 just before the destruction of Jabba ' s sail barge , while ripping out Threepio ' s photoreceptors . He died in the following explosion . Behind the scenes . As seen in the 1985 documentary " " , Crumb ' s puppeteer Tim Rose actually gave Crumb a voice ( other than Crumb ' s laughing as seen in " Return of the Jedi " ) , which he frequently used in conjunction with the puppet to joke around on set . The voice heard in the film is that of Mark Dodson . Bib Fortuna actor , Michael Carter via an interview on TheForce . net , has alluded to several cut scenes from " Return of the Jedi " that involved Jess and Salacious B . Crumb . Some of these scenes appear in " " .