Why are clowns not popular to everyone?
(Editor’s note: an answer to a question posted at Quora) Why is Mickey Mouse not popular to everyone? Why do some people prefer Batman v. […]
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Biographies of Charlie Chaplin
A list of prominent biographies of Charlie Chaplin, famous movie clown, actor, writer, director, producer, and composer.
W.C. Fields Quotes
W.C. Fields Quotes – W. C. Fields, in addition to a legacy of legendary films (such as The Bank Dick, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, […]
Quotes on comedy and humor by W. C. Fields
A collection of quotes on comedy and humor, from the classic film clown, W. C. Fields. Taken from the book, W. C. Fields and Me by Carlotta […]
A Share in the World to Come
‘Rabbi Baruqa of Huza often went to the marketplace at Lapet. One day, the prophet Elijah appeared to him there, and Rabbi Baruqa asked him, […]
What Witchery but a Clown's?
What Witchery but a Clowns? by Charles Dickens, from the introduction to Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, edited by Dickens in 1838. It is some years now, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]