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Abbott and Costello
Abbott and Costello were an American comedy duo composed of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, whose work on radio and in film and television made them the most popular comedy team of the 1940s and early 1950s.
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Abe Goldstein
Abe Goldstein (September 10, 1898 – February 12, 1977) was an American bantamweight boxer from New York.
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Acrobatics
Acrobatics (from Greek ἀκροβατέω akrobateō, "walk on tiptoe, strut") is the performance of extraordinary human feats of balance, agility, and motor coordination.
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Acting
Acting is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor or actress who adopts a character—in theatre, television, film, radio, or any other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode.
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Attitude (psychology)
In psychology, attitude is a psychological construct, a mental and emotional entity that inheres in, or characterizes a person.
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Barry Lubin
Barry Lubin (born July 3, 1952) is an American circus performer best known for his Grandma character.
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Bello Nock
Bello Nock (born April 13, 1970), often known simply as "Bello", is an American daredevil and circus performer.
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Bill Irwin
William Mills Irwin (born April 11, 1950) is an American actor, clown, and comedian.
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Blackface
Blackface was and is a form of theatrical make-up used predominantly by non-black performers to represent a caricature of a black person.
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Bob Bell (actor)
Robert Lewis Bell (January 18, 1922 – December 8, 1997), better known as Bob Bell, was an American actor famous for his alter-ego, Bozo the Clown.
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Bob Trendler
Robert Trendler (1912 in Cincinnati – July 18, 2011 in Ellenton, Florida) was an American bandleader, songwriter, and musical director of the WGN Orchestra from 1956 till 1975.
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Bobo Barnett
Chester Eugene "Bobo" Barnett (October 23, 1903 – February 18, 1985) was a clown whose career lasted from the late 1920s to the early 1970s.
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Bouffon
Bouffon (English originally from French: "farceur", "comique", “Donovan”, "jester") is a modern French theater term that was re-coined in the early 1960s by Jacques Lecoq at his L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris to describe a specific style of performance work that has a main focus in the art of mockery.
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Bozo the Clown
Bozo the Clown is a fictional clown character, created and introduced in the United States in 1946, and to television in 1949, whose broad popularity peaked locally in the 1960s as a result of widespread franchising in early television.
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Buster Keaton
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian, film director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer.
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Canadian clowning
The Canadian Clowning Technique is a mask-based style of performance created by Richard Pochinko.
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Charles Dibdin the younger
Charles Isaac Mungo Dibdin (27 October 1768 – 15 January 1833), or Charles Pitt or Charles Dibdin the younger, as he was professionally known, was an English dramatist, composer, writer and theatre proprietor.
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Charlie Cairoli
Hubert Jean Charles "Charlie" Cairoli, by Dominique Jando, at Circopedia; retrieved 9 July 2014 (15 February 1910 – 17 February 1980) was an Italian-English clown, impressionist and musician.
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Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.
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Chuchín
José de Jesus Medrano (February 19, 1948 - May 29, 1984), better known as Chuchín, was a Mexican clown and star attraction of many circuses in Mexico from the late 1960s to 1984, when he died while on tour in Africa.
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Circus
A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, unicyclists, as well as other object manipulation and stunt-oriented artists.
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Circus clown
Clowns have always been an integral part of the circus, offering a source of amusement for patrons and providing relief from the array of animal acts and performances by acrobats and novelty artistes.
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Circus Knie
Circus Knie (Schweizer National-Circus Knie, Cirque National Suisse Knie) is the largest circus of Switzerland, based in Rapperswil.
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Circus Renz
Circus Renz was a German circus company.
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Clarabell the Clown
Clarabell the Clown was the mute partner of Howdy Doody.
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Clown bicycle
A clown bicycle or clown bike is a bicycle designed for comedic visual effect or stunt riding, typically by circus clowns.
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Clown car
A clown car is a prop in a circus clown routine.
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Clown Care
A '''clown care''' troupe at service at the hospital Bambin Gesù in Italy Clown Care, also known as hospital clowning, is a program in health care facilities involving visits from specially trained clowns.
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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.
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Clowns of America International
Clowns of America International, Inc. (COAI) is a Minnesota-based nonprofit clown arts membership organization which aims "to share, educate, and act as a gathering place for serious minded amateurs, semiprofessionals, and professional clowns".
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Comedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh.
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Comedy
In a modern sense, comedy (from the κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment.
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Commedia dell'arte
(comedy of the profession) was an early form of professional theatre, originating from Italy, that was popular in Europe from the 16th through the 18th century.
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Common ostrich
The ostrich or common ostrich (Struthio camelus) is either of two species of large flightless birds native to Africa, the only living member(s) of the genus Struthio, which is in the ratite family.
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Contemporary circus
New or Contemporary Circus, also known as nouveau cirque or cirque contemporain in French-speaking countries, is a genre of performing arts developed in the late 20th century in which a story or theme is conveyed through traditional circus skills.
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David Larible
David Larible (born June 23, 1957 in Verona, Italy) is an Italian clown.
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David Shiner (clown)
David Shiner (born September 13, 1953) is an American actor, clown, playwright and theater director.
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Don Sandburg
Don Sandburg (born 1930) is an American writer, actor, and producer who has worked in television, most notably as producer of The Banana Splits for Hanna-Barbera as well as WGN-TV's Bozo's Circus.
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Donkey
The donkey or ass (Equus africanus asinus) is a domesticated member of the horse family, Equidae.
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Elephant
Elephants are large mammals of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea.
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Emmett Kelly
Emmett Leo Kelly (December 9, 1898March 28, 1979) was an American circus performer, who created the memorable clown figure "Weary Willie", based on the hobos of the Depression era.
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English Renaissance theatre
English Renaissance theatre—also known as early modern English theatre and Elizabethan theatre—refers to the theatre of England between 1562 and 1642.
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Eric Davis (clown)
Eric Davis (born in Kansas) is an American actor, comedian, director, writer and clown.
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Evil clown
The evil clown is a subversion of the traditional comic clown character, in which the playful trope is instead rendered as disturbing through the use of horror elements and dark humor.
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Exaggeration
Exaggeration is a representation of something in an excessive manner.
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Fifth Dynasty of Egypt
The Fifth Dynasty of ancient Egypt (notated Dynasty V) is often combined with Dynasties III, IV and VI under the group title the Old Kingdom.
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Film
A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.
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Gösta Ekman (senior)
Frans Gösta Viktor Ekman (28 December 1890 – 12 January 1938) was a Swedish actor.
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Geoff Hoyle
Geoff Hoyle (born April 15, 1945) is an English performer who originated the role of Zazu in the Broadway theatre production of The Lion King. Hoyle has also performed in vaudeville shows, worked with Bill Irwin in "The Pickle Family Circus", performed with Cirque Du Soleil's Nouvelle Expérience, and performed with the Revels.
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George L. Fox (clown)
George L. Fox (July 3, 1825 – October 24, 1877) was an American actor and dancer who became known for his clown roles and who based the characterisations on his inspiration Joseph Grimaldi.
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Glen Little (clown)
Glen "Frosty" Little (December 5, 1925 – October 26, 2010) was a circus clown who served with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for over 20 years.
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Harlequin
Harlequin (Arlecchino, Arlequin, Old French Harlequin) is the best-known of the zanni or comic servant characters from the Italian Commedia dell'arte.
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Harlequinade
Harlequinade is a British comic theatrical genre, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "that part of a pantomime in which the harlequin and clown play the principal parts".
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Harold Lloyd
Harold Clayton Lloyd Sr. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) was an American actor, comedian, director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer who is best known for his silent comedy films.
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He Who Gets Slapped
He Who Gets Slapped is a 1924 American silent drama film starring Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, and John Gilbert, and directed by Victor Sjöström.
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Heyoka
The heyoka (heyókȟa, also spelled "haokah," "heyokha") is a kind of sacred clown in the culture of the Lakota people of the Great Plains of North America.
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Hobo
A hobo is a migrant worker or homeless vagrant, especially one who is impoverished.
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Horse
The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''.
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It (character)
It is the title character of Stephen King's 1986 horror novel It.
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Jef Johnson
Jef Johnson is an American clown, philosopher, and drama teacher.
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Jester
A jester, court jester, or fool, was historically an entertainer during the medieval and Renaissance eras who was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain him and his guests.
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John Gilkey
John Gilkey is an American actor, director, comedian, juggler and clown.
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John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy Jr. (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and rapist.
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Joseph Grimaldi
Joseph Grimaldi (18 December 1778 – 31 May 1837) was an English actor, comedian and dancer, who became the most popular English entertainer of the Regency era.
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Krusty the Clown
Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofsky, better known as Krusty the Clown (sometimes spelled as Krusty the Klown), is a cartoon character in the animated television series The Simpsons.
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Leonid Andreyev
Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev (Леони́д Никола́евич Андре́ев, – 12 September 1919) was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, who is considered to be a father of Expressionism in Russian literature.
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Lion taming
Lion taming is the taming and training of lions either for protection, or more commonly, entertainment, particularly in the circus.
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List of clowns
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Luck
Luck is the experience of notably positive, negative, or improbable events.
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Marceline Orbes
Marceline Orbes (May 15, 1873 - November 5, 1927), best known simply as Marceline, was a world-renowned clown during the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Master of ceremonies
A master of ceremonies, abbreviated M.C. or emcee, also called compère and announcer, is the official host of a ceremony, a staged event or similar performance.
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McDonald's
McDonald's is an American fast food company, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States.
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Medicine wheel
In some Native American cultures, the medicine wheel is a metaphor for a variety of spiritual concepts.
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Memorial Day
Memorial Day or Decoration Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the country's armed forces.
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Mike Geier
Mike Geier (born March 12, 1964), known as Big Mike Geier, is a singer, entertainer, and leader of the band Kingsized, which is based in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Performing as the clown-costumed Puddles Pity Party, Geier has appeared in YouTube videos since 2013, including some with Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox.
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Mime artist
A mime or mime artist (from Greek μῖμος, mimos, "imitator, actor") is a person who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art.
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Ned Locke
Norbert Locke, better known as Ned Locke (December 25, 1919 February 4, 1992), was an American television personality and radio announcer, best known for the role of "Ringmaster Ned" on WGN-TV's Bozo's Circus from 1961 - 1976.
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New York Hippodrome
The Hippodrome Theatre also called the New York Hippodrome, was a theater in New York City from 1905 to 1939, located on Sixth Avenue between West 43rd and West 44th Streets in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan.
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Nicolai Poliakoff
Nicolai Poliakoff OBE (2 October 1900 – 25 September 1974) (Nikolajs Poļakovs) (Nikolai Petrovich Polyakov) was the creator of Coco the Clown, arguably the most famous clown in the UK during the middle decades of the 20th century.
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Nicolas Ferry
Nicolas Ferry (known as Bébé) (1741–1764) was a French dwarf who became renowned throughout Europe as the court dwarf of King Stanisław Leszczyński.
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Oleg Popov
Oleg Konstantinovich Popov (Олег Константинович Попoв, 31 July 1930 – 2 November 2016) was a Soviet and Russian clown and circus artist.
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Orchestra
An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which mixes instruments from different families, including bowed string instruments such as violin, viola, cello and double bass, as well as brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments, each grouped in sections.
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Othello
Othello (The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603.
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Otto Griebling
Otto Griebling (April 28, 1896 – April 19, 1972) was a German-born circus clown who performed for many years with the Cole Brothers and Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circuses.
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Pagliacci
Pagliacci (literal translation, Clowns)The title is sometimes incorrectly rendered in English with a definite article as I pagliacci.
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Pantomime
Pantomime (informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment.
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Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne (or;; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.
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Performing arts
Performing arts are a form of art in which artists use their voices or bodies, often in relation to other objects, to convey artistic expression.
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Peter Shub
Peter Shub (born May 12, 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an American actor, clown and vaudeville show director who moved to Europe in the 1980s.
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Philip Astley
Philip Astley (8 January 1742 – 27 January 1814) was an English equestrian, circus owner, and inventor, regarded as being the "father of the modern circus".
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Physical comedy
Physical comedy is a form of comedy focused on manipulation of the body for a humorous effect.
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Physical theatre
Physical theatre is a well-known genre of theatrical performance that encompasses storytelling primarily through physical movement.
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Pierrot
Pierrot is a stock character of pantomime and commedia dell'arte whose origins are in the late seventeenth-century Italian troupe of players performing in Paris and known as the Comédie-Italienne; the name is a diminutive of Pierre (Peter), via the suffix -ot. His character in contemporary popular culture—in poetry, fiction, and the visual arts, as well as works for the stage, screen, and concert hall—is that of the sad clown, pining for love of Columbine, who usually breaks his heart and leaves him for Harlequin.
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Priest
A priest or priestess (feminine) is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities.
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Pueblo clown
The Pueblo clowns (sometimes called sacred clowns) are jesters or tricksters in the Kachina religion (practiced by the Pueblo Indians of the southwestern United States).
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Ray Rayner
Ray Rayner (born Raymond M. Rahner; July 23, 1919, Queens, New York – January 21, 2004) was a staple of Chicago children's television in the 1960s and 1970s on WGN-TV.
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Red Skelton
Richard "Red" Skelton (July 18, 1913September 17, 1997) was an American comedy entertainer.
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Richard Pochinko
Richard Pochinko (1946–1989) was a notable Canadian clown trainer who developed a new style of mask/clown performance training, known as the "Pochinko technique".
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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
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Rodeo clown
A rodeo clown, bullfighter (US/Canada) or rodeo protection athlete, is a rodeo performer who works in bull riding competitions.
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Ronald McDonald
Ronald McDonald is a clown character used as the primary mascot of the McDonald's fast-food restaurant chain.
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Royal Hanneford Circus
The Royal Hanneford Circus is an American-based touring family circus.
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Royal Opera House
The Royal Opera House (ROH) is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.
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Rubber chicken
A rubber chicken is a prop used in comedy.
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Ruggero Leoncavallo
Ruggero (or Ruggiero) Leoncavallo (23 April 18579 August 1919) was an Italian opera composer and librettist.
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Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Noam Baron Cohen (born 13 October 1971) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.
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Sadler's Wells Theatre
Sadler's Wells Theatre is a performing arts venue in Clerkenwell, London, England located on Rosebery Avenue.
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Schweizerisches Idiotikon
Schweizerisches Idiotikon ("the Swiss idioticon", also known as Wörterbuch der schweizerdeutschen Sprache "Dictionary of the Swiss German language") is an ongoing, major project of lexicography of the Swiss German dialects.
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Shakespearean fool
The Shakespearean fool is a recurring character type in the works of William Shakespeare.
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Slapstick
Slapstick is a style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity which exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy.
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Sol (comedian)
Sol is a fictional character written for and performed on stage by the Canadian actor Marc Favreau.
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Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.
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Terry Teene
Terry Teene (February 1942 – March 9, 2012) - accessed March 11, 2012 was an American musician, vocalist, songwriter, and entertainer, most commonly known for the early 1960s novelty hit "Curse of the Hearse".
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The Bozo Show
The Bozo Show is a locally produced children's television program that aired on WGN-TV in Chicago and nationally on what is now WGN America.
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The Clown (1953 film)
The Clown is a 1953 American drama film starring Red Skelton with Jane Greer and Tim Considine, and directed by Robert Z. Leonard.
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The Tramp
The Tramp (Charlot in several languages), also known as The Little Tramp, was British actor Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character and an icon in world cinema during the era of silent film.
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The Winter's Tale
The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare originally published in the First Folio of 1623.
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Theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.
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Theatre of ancient Greece
The ancient Greek drama was a theatrical culture that flourished in ancient Greece from c. 700 BC.
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Theatre of ancient Rome
Theatre of ancient Rome refers to the time period of theatrical practice and performance in Rome beginning in the 4th century B.C., following the state’s transition from Monarchy to Republic.
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Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, commonly known as Drury Lane, is a West End theatre and Grade I listed building in Covent Garden, London, England.
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Tightrope walking
Tightrope walking, also called funambulism, is the skill of walking along a thin wire or rope.
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Tom Dougherty
Tom Dougherty (May 30, 1881 – November 6, 1953), nicknamed "Sugar Boy", was a baseball pitcher for the Chicago White Sox in 1904.
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Tramp
A tramp is a long-term homeless person who travels from place to place as a vagrant, traditionally walking all year round.
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Trickster
In mythology, and in the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a character in a story (god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphisation), which exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge, and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and conventional behaviour.
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University of Sheffield
The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University) is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.
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Vance Colvig
Vance DeBar Colvig Jr. (March 9, 1918 – March 3, 1991) was an American character actor.
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WGN-TV
WGN-TV, virtual channel 9 (UHF digital channel 19), is an independent television station licensed to Chicago, Illinois, United States, serving as the flagship television property of the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Media Company, which also owns radio station WGN (720 AM) and local cable news channel Chicagoland Television (CLTV).
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Willard Scott
Willard Herman Scott Jr. (born March 7, 1934) is an American weather presenter, author, television personality, actor, clown, comedian and radio personality, best known for his TV work on the Today show and as the creator and original portrayer of Ronald McDonald.
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Winkte
Winkte (also spelled wíŋtke) is the contraction of an old Lakota word, winyanktehca, meaning ' to be like a woman'.
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World Clown Association
The World Clown Association (WCA) is a worldwide organization for clowns, jugglers, Magicians, face painters, and clowning.
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Yuri Nikulin
Yuri Vladimirovich Nikulin (Юрий Владимирович Никулин; 18 December 1921 – 21 August 1997) was a well-known Soviet and Russian actor and clown who starred in many popular films.
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Zanni
Zanni, Zani or Zane is a character type of Commedia dell'arte best known as an astute servant and trickster.
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Zebra
Zebras are several species of African equids (horse family) united by their distinctive black and white striped coats.
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Zig and Zag (Australian performers)
Jack Perry (1917 – c. April 2006) and Douglas "Doug" McKenzie (22 March 19184 August 2004) — were an entertainer duo from Melbourne who were known and billed professionally as the clown act, Zig and Zag.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clown
