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unusual facts about Clowns



Arthur Sarnoff

He also made an album cover for the American punk band Butthole Surfers for their third album, Locust Abortion Technician, which portrays two clowns playing with a dog.

Bickershaw Festival

Although the organisers put together a line-up of United Kingdom and American acts such as the Grateful Dead, Captain Beefheart, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Dr John, Hawkwind, The Kinks, Country Joe McDonald, The Incredible String Band, Donovan, Wishbone Ash, Maynard Ferguson, and a host of mixed-media acts such as high divers and clowns, the festival suffered from several major deficiencies.

Bored!

In 1991 Hemensley and Nolan left to form Powder Monkeys, Munday and Thomas continued with Russell Baricevic (Gas Babies, Macho Clowns) on bass guitar.

Class Clowns

Notable comedians who have performed as entrants in Class Clowns include, Tom Ballard, Jack Druce, Danny McGinlay, Mia Timpano, Michael Connell, Tully, Paul Jones and Imaan Hadchiti.

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.

Coastal Coalition

The group has been called 'clowns' and 'profoundly sickening' by Chris Finlayson, the New Zealand attorney-general responsible for bringing in the new Bill, because of alleged untruths in their arguments.

Drawing a Blank

Other books include The Last Dog on Earth, The Thing Under the Bed and Killer Clowns of King County.

Félicien Champsaur

He went on to publish many novels, collections of articles, and other works, including Miss America (1885), Entrée de clowns (1886), Parisiennes (1887), Les Bohémiens (1887), Lulu (1888), L'Amant des danseuses (1888), La Gomme (1889), and Poupée Japonaise (1912), Nora, la guenon devenue femme (1929), a parody loosely based on the career of American dancer Josephine Baker.

Fluorescent Adolescent

During a live performance of the song on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, the band played the song dressed as clowns, with Alex Turner dressing with the same make up and clothing as the main clown in the video.

Galin Nikiforov

A month later his latest novel The House of Clowns won the Elias Canetti Award.

Galinha Pintadinha

They were phenomena in DVD sales during the early 2010s to be released and publicized nationally by Som Livre becoming well known among children with clowns Patati Patatá.

Greg and Karen DeSanto

For seven seasons, Greg and Karen were the resident clowns at Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin, and appeared together in The Big Apple Circus’ 2005-06 production Grandma Goes To Hollywood.

Indianapolis Clowns

The 1976 movie The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, starring James Earl Jones, Billy Dee Williams, and Richard Pryor, is loosely based on the barnstorming of the Indianapolis Clowns.

Jackson County, Indiana

On October 6, 1866 the Reno Gang robbed an Ohio and Mississippi Railway train making off with over $10,000.They were nicknamed: "The Jackson Theives" later on.

Konan Big

On June 9, 2009 Konan Big faced Cibernético in a match where Cibernético stated before the match that Konan Big was used to facing "Clowns and TV presenters" but now had to face a real wrestler.

Malkar Mohamed

He was the producer of the great commercial success in Tamil film of Sri Lanka, "Komaligal" (Clowns).

Mary Hartline

The show, starring former real-life circus barker Claude Kirchner, featured Mary as the band leader, the circus clowns Cliffy, Scampy, and Nicky, as well as Mike Wallace playing the circus barker peddling Peter Pan Peanut Butter.

No Stars, Just Talent

#The Vandals – "Clowns Are Experts (At Making Us Laugh)" (from Slippery When Ill/The Vandals Play Really Bad Original Country Tunes)

Piccadilly Circus in popular culture

In Wayne's World 2, Paramount flies Wayne and Garth (or their body doubles) to London and they visit Piccadilly Circus; Garth comments, "Wow, what a s***ty circus," to which Wayne replies, "Good call. There's no animals or clowns! What a ripoff!"

René Bazinet

He is well known for being one of the most talented veteran clowns ever to have worked for Cirque du Soleil.

Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame

LaMont "ShowBoat" player/owner of the Harlem Clowns www.harlemclowns.net He played along side Harlem Globetrotter great and Basketball Hall of Famer Meadowlark Lemon for many years.

Rifle Sport Gallery

Shannon Brady, Phillip Johnson, Michael Joo, Ruthann Goddellei, Jan Elftman, Frank Gaard, Melissa Stang, W. Joe Hoppe, Julia Scher, The Slime Clowns (Zingo & Bloppo), Steve Grandel, Mann Hawks, Robert Grassel

Ritual clown

Jean Cazeneuve (1956) Sacred Clowns in New Mexico/Clowns sacrés du Nouveau Mexique, in Paris Review

Sequenza V

Sequenza V was composed as a tribute to Grock, called "the last of the great clowns" by Berio (1998, 14).

Shoot All the Clowns

"Shoot All the Clowns" is the second and last single from Bruce Dickinson's second solo album, Balls to Picasso, released in August 1994.

The Bamboozle 2007: Everything Will Be Much Better Once I Get These Clowns Out of My Head

The Bamboozle 2007: Everything Will Be Much Better Once I Get These Clowns Out of My Head is the compilation album for The Bamboozle 2007 music festival and concert.

Toni Stone

During the fifty games that Stone played for the Clowns, she maintained a .243 batting average, and one of her hits was off the legendary Satchel Paige.

United States v. Extreme Associates

Ass Clowns 3: a female journalist is being raped by a gang led by Osama bin Laden; the journalist is freed and the gang members killed.

Wayne Perkins

1974 Court and Spark Joni Mitchell; Hobos Heroes & Street Corner Clowns Don Nix; Monkey Grip Bill Wyman

William Batty

Batty was one of the most successful circus proprietors in Victorian England, and helped launch the careers of a number of leading Victorian circus personalities, such as Pablo Fanque, the versatile performer and later circus proprietor (best known today from his mention in The Beatles song "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"), and W.F. Wallett, one of most celebrated clowns of the era.


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