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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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The Bozo Show is a children's television program that aired on WGN-TV in Chicago and nationally on its superstation feed (now NewsNation) from 1960 to 2001.It was based on a children's record-book series, Bozo the Clown by Capitol Records.
Joseph Grimaldi, the first mainstream clown, had his first major role as Little Clown in the pantomime The Triumph of Mirth; or, Harlequin's Wedding in 1781. [22] The Royal Circus was opened in London on 4 November 1782 by Charles Dibdin (who coined the term "circus"), [23] aided by his partner Charles Hughes, an equestrian performer. [24]
Sondheim wrote the show’s hit song “Send in the Clowns” to suit her distinctive husky voice, but she lost the part in the 1977 film version to Elizabeth Taylor.
A year later, the hobo character that had first been created on a drawing board in Kansas City came to life. Ragged homeless men were commonplace during the Depression, and on April 21, 1933, the tramp clown made his first appearance during a performance at the Chicago Coliseum. [9] In early 1934 a second child, Patrick, was born.