Mark Twain on Being a Clown
Mark Twain on Being a Clown, by Robert Edmund Sherwood, from Here We Are Again I have ridden in Venetian gondolas to the music of tinkling […]
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Only One Real Life
Only One Real Life, by Dexter Fellows – an excerpt from This Way to the Big Show, 1936 The laugh-clown-laugh theme is as old as the […]
Johnny Patterson
Johnny Patterson (1840 – 1889) The Irish Singing Clown Early life of Johnny Patterson Johnny Patterson was a famous Irish clown, known for his original songs, […]
Eternal Drollery
Eternal Drollery, by Francis Beverly Kelley (from “The Land of Stardust and Spangles,” The National Geographic Magazine, October 1931) Byron once wrote, “He who joy would […]
Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Day ProclamationThe White HouseWashington, D.C.October 3, 1863 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAA PROCLAMATION By the President of the […]
Fun With The Phone
Fun With The Phone – Ideas for your telephone answering machine. Nearly everyone has a phone answering machine or a voicemail system of some kind. […]
Emmett Kelly: The Greatest Clown on Earth
Emmett Kelly: The Greatest Clown on Earth (Notable Missourians) In the early 1900s, the circus was one of the most popular forms of entertainment in […]
Playchute parachute
Clown Props – Playchute parachute Playchute parachute – This is actually more of a prop to use at a birthday party or picnic, and not […]
The Joke's On You
The Joke’s On You — who should be the butt of your jokes? This article was prompted by something I heard about the performance of […]
Essential Charlie Chaplin volume 10
Editorial review of Essential Charlie Chaplin volume 10 The Essential CHARLIE CHAPLIN COLLECTION…a must-have for any fan or film buff’s library. This definitive collection of 12-DVDs […]