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Clown Week was celebrated on a limited scale in the 1950s. In 1966 the first International Clown Week chairman was appointed by Ray Bickford, president of Clown Club of America. In 1967 Clown Club of America members were urged to write to their congressmen and senators requesting a presidential proclamation naming July 21–27 as National Clown ...
Bill Chase worked as a newspaper librarian and saw a need for "a single reference source for calendar dates, and for authoritative and current information about various observances throughout the year". [3] The brothers gathered information on events and the first edition of 2,000 copies was printed for 1958.
The first inductees were enshrined April 23, 1989. [1] Since then, 61 additional clowns have been inducted into the International Clown Hall of Fame. The ensemble has included living and historical American clowns and clowns from Europe, South America, and Africa. The ICHOF also annually bestows a "Lifetime of Laughter Achievement Award".
According to the COAI bylaws, a clown alley [6] is any club with at least five members that forms a local chapter. The COAI also publishes The New Calliope, a bimonthly journal that contains information about the group, news, events, and clown-related articles. [7] The number of clowns in the United States has significantly decreased in the ...
Bozo the Clown, sometimes billed as "Bozo, The World's Most Famous Clown", is a clown character created for children's entertainment, widely popular in the second half of the 20th century. He was introduced in the United States in 1946, and to television in 1949, later appearing in franchised television programs of which he was the host, where ...
By RYAN GORMAN The recent trend of bizarre clowns terrorizing towns across America has finally reached the Sunshine State. A security camera caught bizarre footage last week of a clown ripping ...
Sheila Keen-Warren, 61, was released from prison 18 months after she pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the shooting of Marlene Warren in 1990.
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.