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Carequinha – Brazilian clown and actor, born in a circus to a circus family Brazil; Cepillín – Mexican clown; Cha-U-Kao - French clown, performer at the Moulin Rouge; Charlie Bell – American clown, Ringling Bros. circus; Charlie Cairoli – Italian-born British clown; Pinto Colvig - American clown who later became famous as the voice of ...
Accompanying the white clown, there is often another clown variety known as an auguste or red clown. In strict classical European circuses of the past, the augustes were never described as clowns because, technically, they were not instigators but recipients of the comic doings.
A clown is a person who performs physical comedy and arts in an open-ended fashion, typically while wearing distinct makeup or costuming and reversing folkway-norms.The art of performing as a clown is known as clowning or buffoonery, and the term "clown" may be used synonymously with predecessors like jester, joker, buffoon, fool, or harlequin.
Philip Astley (8 January 1742 – 20 October 1814) was an English equestrian, circus owner, and inventor, regarded as being the "father of the modern circus". [1] [2] Modern circus, as an integrated entertainment experience that includes music, domesticated animals, acrobats, and clowns, traces its heritage to Astley's Amphitheatre, a riding school that Astley founded in London following the ...
A promotional poster for the Sandow Trocadero Vaudevilles (1894), showing dancers, clowns, trapeze artists, costumed dogs, singers and costumed actors Vaudeville ( / ˈ v ɔː d ( ə ) v ɪ l , ˈ v oʊ -/ ; [ 1 ] French: [vodvil] ⓘ ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France at the end of the 19th century. [ 2 ]
Scaramuccia in 1860. Scaramouche (French:) or Scaramouch (English: / ˈ s k ær ə m uː (t) ʃ,-m aʊ tʃ /; Italian: Scaramuccia [skaraˈmuttʃa]; lit. ' little skirmisher ') is a stock clown character of the 16th-century commedia dell'arte (comic theatrical arts of Italian literature).
Dan Rice (January 23, 1823 – February 22, 1900) was an American entertainer of many talents, most famously as a clown, who was active before the American Civil War.At the height of his career, Rice was a household name.
Bim Bom (or Bim and Bom [1]) was a Moscow circus clown duo consisting of Ivan Radunsky (as Bim) and various "Boms", active intermittently from 1891 up until at least World War II. [2] The clown act was enormously popular, but often banned or censored due to its satirical political content. Each act would begin with an original song and dance ...