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C-Clown

They made their debut performance following day on the Mnet music television program M! Countdown.


Art Saaf

After the War Saaf worked for Timely Comics, Dell Comics as well as autobiographical comics including "The Clown of Baseball" for Real Life Comics.

Bartholomew John

Although his best known work is probably playing the clown, Ronald McDonald on Australian television.

Behind the Paint

In the midst of their popularity, Insane Clown Posse perform at Woodstock 1999, create the professional wrestling organization Juggalo Championship Wrestling, and release a full length feature film, Big Money Hustlas.

Betty Luster

Luster's last known sighting was on episode 7 of Michael Palin's 1989 series, Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days, on an Amtrak train heading east from Los Angeles, identifying herself as "Marna the Clown".

Bibleman

The Fibbler A green-haired evil clown (resembling the Cesar Romero Joker from the Batman) who influenced one of the Church singing group children into lying.

Bizzar

On the August 20, 1999, episode of The Howard Stern Show, Insane Clown Posse clashed with fellow guest Sharon Osbourne, and she bet Violent J $50,000 that the group's next album would not sell more than 200,000 copies, and that it would be subsequently dropped from its distributor.

Clown society

Clown society is a term used in anthropology and sociology for an organization of comedic entertainers (Heyoka or "clowns") who have a formalized role in a culture or society.

Dawson Leery

His three best friends are Joey Potter, the girl across the creek, whom he considers his soulmate, Pacey Witter, Capeside High's class clown, and Jen Lindley, the new girl in town.

Die Zirkusprinzessin

The circus sequences in the New York production were particularly lavish, including equestrians, aerialists, and a famous clown of the day, Poodles Hanneford.

Elvin Bale

He would headline the Blue Unit in the 70s and early 80s, and his single trapeze act won him the Circus Oscar at the 1973 Circus World Festival in Madrid, Spain, as well as the 1976 Gold Clown, given out by the International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo for the best circus performance of the year.

Emilio Aragón

Emilio Aragón Bermúdez (1929-2012), Miliki, Spanish clown, accordionist and singer;

Fat Mike

Fat Mike has made several appearances as Cokie the Clown, but one of his most memorable was at Emo's, a popular nightclub in Austin on March 20, 2010 at the South by Southwest festival.

Fluorescent Adolescent

Filmed in late April 2007, the music video was directed by Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd/Nathan Barley) and features Stephen Graham (who previously appeared on the Scummy Man DVD and the "When the Sun Goes Down" video) as a clown.

Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely

The album's front cover (painted by Nicholas Volpe) features Sinatra as a sullen, Pagliacci-like clown.

Frenchy the Clown

Nick Bakay created the Evil Clown storyline for National Lampoon utilizing Alan Kupperberg as the illustrator.

Fun 'n Games

The Whack a Clown game is a variant of Whac-A-Mole, and is exclusive to the Sega Genesis version of the game.

GAZ-24

Famous clown and actor Yuri Nikulin was permitted to own GAZ-24-02 wagon because he often transported heavy circus equipment.

I Get It

He plans an elaborate scheme to get back at his boss, including dressing up as a clown, taking pictures of his boss cheating on his wife, having a Mixed Martial Artist (played by Josh Koscheck) attack his boss, and tattooing "Mr. Perfect" into his boss's head.

It's a Hard Life

The opening lyric and melody of "It's a Hard Life" is based on the line "Ridi, Pagliaccio, sul tuo amore infranto!" (Laugh, clown, at your broken love!) from "Vesti la giubba", an aria from Ruggiero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci.

Johnston McCulley

The Crimson Clown is Delton Prouse, a wealthy young bachelor, able veteran of The Great War, explorer, and all around adventurer who functions as a modern Robin Hood, stealing from the unjustly rich and returning money to helpless victims or worthy organizations.

Jumbo's Clown Room

The front of Jumbo's Clown Room building is also shown on Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, season 4, episode 8, entitled "Manners".

Kefka Palazzo

Originally designed by Yoshitaka Amano, he appears in Final Fantasy VI as a clown-like, nihilistic psychopath who acts as the game's main antagonist and as the God of Magic, physically transforming into a Lucifer-esque fallen angel.

Kevin Cahoon

Cahoon began his performing career at the age of 5 as 'The World's Youngest Rodeo Clown', performing throughout the Texas and Oklahoma Rodeo Circuits, including many consecutive seasons at The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo at Houston's Astrodome and The Texas State High School Finals Rodeo, resulting in a Letter of Citation from then Texas Governor Bill Clements.

Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures

Santa Claus, Strong Man, Castle Knight, and the Clown are the only non-movie characters who are unlockable.

Major Accident

Other leading 1980s Clockwork punk bands include The Adicts (whose version had more of a fun, circus clown emphasis), Die Toten Hosen (who released the themed album Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau) and Blitz (who wore some of the dress later in their career).

Marshall Brodien

Marshall Brodien, known for his role as Wizzo the Wizard, played a wizard clown that performed on WGN-TV's Bozo's Circus and The Bozo Show from 1968-1994.

Monster Mini Golf

The only consistent features in each franchise are the "Enter at Your Own Risk" sign that hangs above the cast-iron gated entrance to the "cemetery," and the trademark clown statue that escorts customers out after the last hole.

Old Corn Meal

George Nichols, a blackface circus clown is one, as is Thomas D. Rice, whose "Corn Meal" skit most likely came from seeing Old Corn Meal's act during one of his visits to New Orleans in 1835, 1836 and 1838.

Pelle Hermanni

Pelle Hermanni (translates to Herman the Clown) is a Finnish children's TV show shown on YLE TV2 in the Pikku Kakkonen children's program.

Pickle Family Circus

In the early years, the circus boasted three clowns: Larry Pisoni, Bill Irwin, and Geoff Hoyle; they were the stars of a Pickle Family Circus production in 1981 called Three High.

Pocket of a Clown

"Pocket of a Clown" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Dwight Yoakam.

Psycho Circus

Some pressings featured a lenticular cover that alternates between a black Kiss logo and the album title with pictures of a clown and the band members, while the Japan initial first pressing featured a pop-up cover which had three foam spring-loaded panels of a clown face and two others with band members faces that popped out when the doors were opened.

Rabbit's Moon

Filmed under a blue filter and set within a wooded glade during the night, the plot revolves around a clown, Pierrot, his longing for the moon (in which a rabbit lives - a concept found in both Japanese and Aztec mythology), and his futile attempts to jump up and catch it.

Ronald MacDonald

Ronald McDonald, advertising clown for McDonald's fast-food restaurants

Roslyn Walker

You will see amazing tricks on a single wheel from World champion unicyclist Kaleigh Grainger; comedy, juggling and high-wire walking from Harley the Clown; as well as Walker's own daring feats of escapology and classic sideshow stunts all accompanied by live music from fiddler Ed Wright and guitarist Stu Dench

Rusty Nail

Rusty Nails, a children's entertainer who inspired The Simpsons character Krusty the Clown

Squire Fridell

From 1984 to 1991, he served as the official "Ronald McDonald" clown character in American television commercials for the McDonald's Corporation chain of fast-food restaurants, and even played the McDonald character in Mac and Me.

Suicide Season

Musicians and producers featured on the album include: Ben Weinman from The Dillinger Escape Plan, Skrillex, L’Amour La Morgue, KC Blitz, Utah Saints and Shawn "Clown" Crahan from Slipknot.

Super Cholita

In her civilian identity she is the Aymara woman Francisca Pizzaro Mamani, daughter of a cholita and a nameless pepino (a traditional carnival clown often deemed responsible for fatherless children), and granddaughter of a mythical highland frog.

The Clown Died in Marvin Gardens

The Clown Died in Marvin Gardens is the second album from Beacon Street Union, a psychedelic rock group based in Boston, Mass.

The Convention Crasher

The third episode in the series saw Justin travelling to a Clowning Convention in Houston, Texas where he would compete for the prize of Clown of the Year.

The Last Circus

While his fellow troupe members are executed, the Funny Clown is sentenced to work as a slave laborer, at the monument of the Valle de los Caídos.

Tumblepop

Moscow, which is a circus-like stage, enemies being clowns, invisible conjurers, fire spitters; the boss is a giant clown held by balloons who juggles with bombs.

Victoria Sanger Freeman

In 1917 she married James Freeman, a trapeze artiste, highwire walker and clown, among other roles.

W.F. Wallett

Wallett (born Hull, England, November 1806. Died at Beeston, Nottinghamshire, England, 13 March 1892) was a popular circus clown in Victorian England, who also enjoyed modest celebrity in the United States.

Who Then Now?

It features interviews with the band up to the recording of Life Is Peachy, and music videos for "Blind", "Shoots and Ladders", "Clown" and "Faget".

Ysabel MacCloskey

Bewitched "Laugh, Clown, Laugh" (TV) Mrs. Jameson, "Darrin Goes Ape" (TV)Hagatha, "This Little Piggie" (TV) Aunt Hagatha, "The House That Uncle Arthur Built" (TV) Mrs. Rockfield


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