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Bozo first came to Detroit in 1958 on WWJ-TV channel 4. Bob McNea, who worked as a clown in various circuses, including the Shrine Circus, was hired to play Bozo. [12] [13] McNea's Bozo became popular, expanding to two shows a day, and becoming the first children's program in Detroit to switch to color. However, there was friction with Larry ...
Adam the Clown – from the video game Dead Rising. Equipped with two chainsaws that he juggles, he is a boss in the game. Binky the Clown – from the Garfield comic by Jim Davis. Buggy the Clown – an antagonist of the manga and anime One Piece; Buttons the Clown – a central character from the 1952 film The Greatest Show on Earth, played ...
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.
George Carl (7 May 1916 – 1 January 2000) was a vaudevillian style comic, clown and eccentric dancer. Carl was born in Ohio, and he started his comedy career traveling with a variety of circuses during his teenage years. In time, Carl became internationally famous as a clown and visual comedian.
The first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, was uploaded on April 23, 2005, and shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo and currently has over 120 million views and almost 5 million likes. [15] [16] Hurley was behind the look of the website, creating the logo. [17]
Thomas Johnson, also known as Tommy the Clown, is an American dancer best known as the inventor of the "clowning" style of dance, which evolved into krumping. Johnson invented the style in 1992 to enhance birthday party clown acts, thereby creating the concept of " hip-hop clowns".
1938 radio quiz show Whiz Kids on WHN Radio in New York. Game shows began to appear on radio and television in the late 1930s. The first television game show, Spelling Bee, as well as the first radio game show, Information Please, were both broadcast in 1938; the first major success in the game show genre was Dr. I.Q., a radio quiz show that began in 1939.
Rotoscoped sequence of Koko the Clown from the 1919 film The Tantalizing Fly: length 45 seconds, 410 kbit/s overall. Link to full size 480×320 pixels. Link to complete film. Still from an Inkwell Imps cartoon featuring Koko the Clown and Fitz the Dog. Out of the Inkwell is an American animated film series of the silent era.