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unusual facts about Laugh, Clown, Laugh


I Love to Singa

The dark, operatic bird sang a line from the silent film Laugh, Clown, Laugh (even though the lyrics to the theme song don't have those actual words).


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.

Bert Marcelo

Bert "Tawa" Marcelo (June 6, 1936 - December 16, 1995) was a prominent Filipino television personality whose trademark high-pitched infectious laughter earned him the popular moniker "Tawa", after the Tagalog word for laugh.

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.

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.

De tribus puellis

Thus, when the narrator of the poem says to the girl, da michi, queso, tua virginitate frui ("grant me, I beg, your virginity for my enjoyment"), the reader (or listener) is supposed to laugh at the play on Daphne's request that her father da mihi perpetua ... virginitate frui ("grant ... that I may enjoy perpetual virginity") in the Metamorphoses (I.486–87).

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.

Dissident Gardens

But Rose gets the last laugh, because Khrushchev's secret denouncements of Stalin are revealed in 1956, leaving the American Communist Party in utter disarray.

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.

Frank Jacobs

Jacobs appeared in the sixth chapter of PBS' comedy documentary, Make 'em Laugh: The Funny Business of America singing "Blue Cross," his own 1961 parody of Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies".

Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely

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

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.

Good Scouts

He tries to chop down a petrified tree and pitch a tent with bad knots causing the nephews to laugh.

Goofy Gophers

The gophers' mannerisms and speech were patterned after Frederick Burr Opper's comics characters Alphonse and Gaston, which in the early 1900s engendered a "good honest laugh".

Happy Times

It is based loosely on the short story, Shifu: You'll Do Anything for a Laugh (师傅越来越幽默) by Mo Yan; the story appears in English translation in the collection of the same title translated by Howard Goldblatt.

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.

J. M. Gordon

He was responsible for making the textual revisions to Ruddigore when that opera was restaged in December 1921, as well as the extensive revision (with music director Harry Norris) to create the Savoy Edition of Cox and Box, and he approved any changes to stage business, such as Darrell Fancourt's introduction of the Mikado's famous laugh.

Jennifer Lien

That year she also participated in the recording of Adam Sandler's comedy album They're All Gonna Laugh At You in which she played the part of the Valedictorian on the track "The Buffoon And The Valedictorian", as well as one of the daughters on the track "Oh, mom...".

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.

Kev Adams

From September 2010 to February 2011, he was a candidate for the TV program On n’demande qu’à en rire ("We just want to laugh at it") presented by Laurent Ruquier.

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.

Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo

Much like Homer Simpson, Ryo-san's antics appeal to children who can laugh at an old buffoon and to men fearing that they are becoming old buffoons themselves and also because it often subtly mock the latest fads and trends.

Laugh, Laugh

The Beau Brummels promoted the single by appearing on several television shows, including a 1965 episode of The Flintstones in which the band gave an animated performance as the Beau Brummelstones.

Leonid Andreyev

Copies of his The Seven Who Were Hanged and The Red Laugh were found in the library of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, as listed in the "Lovecraft's Library" catalogue by S.T. Joshi.

Miriam Wolfe

Cole, puzzled at first when he saw a young girl in a straw hat and Buster Brown haircut, hired her as soon as he heard the spine-chilling, cackling laugh which became her trademark.

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.

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.

Pink-A-Rella

Though most American broadcasts mute the laughter, a laugh track version still airs on France Channel Gulli and Netflix streaming.

Play It Loud

"We replaced Doc Martens with platform boots. We became more colourful and then it all went berserk - Dave the Superyob with his spacesuits and all the rest. It was a great laugh."

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.

Richard Marsland

Adelaide TV personality Anne Wills paid tribute by saying about Richard, I never worked with someone who made me belly laugh so much.

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

Shorty Long

The song was inspired by a comic act on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In about a judge by Pigmeat Markham, whose own "Here Comes the Judge" (a totally different song) charted two weeks after Long's did in June 1968, and became a Top 20 hit.

Slingshot 6 7/8

However, this entry marks the first performance of voice actor Dal McKennon in the Woody series, doing vocal effects for Wally Walrus, Buzz Buzzard, and a few for Woody as well (actress Grace Stafford provided Woody laugh and the rest of Woody sound effects in this film).

Sunkist Fun Fruits

Advertising on television and comic books for Fun Fruits usually featured characters named "Tickle Trees" who would cause those who approached them to laugh uncontrollably.

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 Best of The Beau Brummels 1964–1968

Released in 1987 by Rhino Records, the album features 18 songs, including the band's biggest hit singles—"Laugh, Laugh", "Just a Little", "You Tell Me Why", and "Don't Talk to Strangers"—as well as songs which never appeared on an album before this collection, such as the 1967 single "Here We Are Again".

The Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings

This was released on the UK Volume 1, along with The Care Bears Battle the Freeze Machine, and the 3 episodes The Birthday/Camp, Braces/Split Decision, and The Last Laugh by Maximum Entertainment.

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.

Tuvia Tenenbom

Bruce Bawer, reviewing "I Sleep in Hitler's Room" for PJ Media, writes: "It's a book in a category all its own—deeply sobering, depressing even, in its observations of the darker side of Germany, yet at the same time so chatty and engaging and laugh-out-loud funny that it's hard to put down."

Unsquare Dance

Brubeck points out in his liner notes that "'Unsquare Dance', in 7/4 time, is a challenge to the foot-tappers, finger-snappers and hand-clappers. Deceitfully simple, it refuses to be squared. And the laugh you hear at the end is Joe Morello's guffaw of surprise and relief that we had managed to get through the difficult last chorus".

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".

WMPA TV

All three shows borrowed material liberally from such television programs as “Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In,” “Saturday Night Live,” "The Benny Hill Show," "Late Night with David Letterman," and “Hee Haw.”


see also

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