Skits
A collection of clown skits, free to use in your own performances
Bring your pet to show and tell
Bring your pet to show and tell – a skit for a speaking clown troupe
[Editor’s note: my clown friend, Doc the Rube, told me that his daughter had an inflatable dinosaur costume – and did I have a skit? Well, now I do!]
Props: dog puppet (or balloon twisted dog, or even a real dog), an empty page (for the flea circus), and the inflatable dinosaur costume.
[The skit begins with 1 clown as the teacher and three more as the “students”]
Mrs. Simon (teacher): All right, children, did you all bring your pets to Show and Tell today?
First child: Mrs. Simon, can I go first?
Mrs. Simon: Yes, you may.
[Child goes to the wing, comes back with a dog puppet, addresses the ‘class’ — the audience]
First Child: This is my new puppy, Puddles. Say hi to the kids, Puddles! [puppet waves] He’s a brand-new puppy at our house. My dad named him “Puddles” because … [looks down at her arm] … Oh, Puddles! How could you! [dashes off-stage]
Second child: My turn! [goes off-stage, brings back an empty cage] This is my trained flea, Fernando! [opens the door of the cage] Here Ferdinand! [pantomimes the flea jumping over his arms, tummy, etc.] Stop that! You’re tickling me! I’m warning you! Stop it! [swats the “flea”] Oh, no! Ferdinand! [runs off stage, weeping]
Third child: My turn! May I bring my lizard in?
Mrs. Simon: A lizard? Well, I suppose so …
Third child: Great! [goes to the wing, brings out the person in the T-Rex costume, if possible on a leash] This is my pet, Rex.
Rex: [looks at the crowd, pantomimes being hungry, licks lips, rubs tummy, speaks in a deep voice] When do we eat? [pause] And who? [skit ends with Rex chasing the teacher off stage, yelling “Snack time!”]
[Editor’s note: for an example of the ‘flea’ routine, you can see Charlie Chaplin‘s version in Limelight]
Pretty Good Guy
Pretty Good Guy – a clown ministry skit for 2 speaking clowns – courtesy of the Asbury clown troupe
props required: tie, walker, long list of sins (likely 8.5″ x 11″ paper taped at the ends), tie, chalk slate
(both enter together) (background music) (more…)
Holy Ghost
Holy Ghost – a clown ministry skit for a troupe of speaking clowns, talking about the Holy Ghost, and how Christians should see him in action
Application: You can see Jesus in the action of those who love him.
Scripture: John 14:21: They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me, and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.
Doc enters, sits down, pulls out his lunch of a fish skeleton. (more…)
Three Bears sketch – Bozo the Clown show
Three Bears sketch — a very funny sketch, from WGN-TV’s Bozo the Clown show, Bozo’s Circus featuring three of their funniest clowns: (more…)
Clown Easter – an Easter Sunday skit for 4 clowns
Clown Easter – an Easter Sunday skit for 4 clowns
This script is courtesy of Clowns for Christ
This was originally written for Easter 1998. The script, written for 4 clowns, is intentionally unfinished, because our Associate Pastor supplied the ending to surprise us, taking the role listed below as Non-Clown. Each clown can be played by a pair of clowns sharing the role.
Clown 1 enters whistling. She goes up to a wooden cross and begins trying to balance several eggs on the cross bar. They are real eggs so they will fall off and break, on a tarp placed under the cross. After she places each egg, she hops in place two or three times. Other clowns enter and watch for a moment. Finally, Clown 2 comes up. (more…)
Thou Shalt Not Covenant (clown ministry)
Thou Shalt Not Covenant – a clown skit for two speaking clowns, typically a white face and an auguste, although any 2 clowns would do, an original skit by Raynbow D Clown, suggested by a discussion in the Clown Ministry group at groups.yahoo.com
(props required: a Bible, either actual or large foam prop)
(Clown 1 enters carrying Bible — Clown 2 follows directly after him, shadowing him – when Clown 1 stops, Clown 2 stops. When Clown 1 turns, so does Clown 2, staying out of site of Clown 1. This goes on for a minute, milking this gag for all it”s worth. Finally, Clown 1 catches Clown 2 in the act.)
Clown 1: So there you are! What are you doing? (more…)
What is Easter?
What is Easter? A free clown skit for three speaking clowns, and one “normal” person
(Editor’s note: this skit is written by Raynbow the Clown, and is based on the joke “Three clowns at the gates of heaven.” Also note that it could be easily re-written for one clown, who is given three tries to get the answer right.)
The skit begins with the “normal” person (probably a children’s pastor) asking for volunteers from the audience to answer a simple question. The three clowns leap up and clownishly race to the front, eager to answer. (more…)
He Loves Me. He Loves Me Not
He Loves Me. He Loves Me Not – a clown ministry skit for 2 or 3 speaking clowns
(author unknown)
Clown 1 sitting on stage reading his Bible
Clown 2 enters picking petals off a flower or carrying a bunch of flowers to be more visual to the audience and tossing a flower each time instead of a petal. (more…)
Annie and Rowdy Rusty– a clownish retelling of David and Goliath
Annie and Rowdy Rusty– a clownish retelling of David and Goliath
A rework of David – a clownish retelling of David and Goliath, a skit by Tom Raymond,
Characters: Narrator, Annie, Annie’s 2 sisters, Father/Sheriff (the same person can play both), “Rowdy Rusty” Custard
Props: 5 balloon cow hats, ukulele, bag of “supplies,” big balloon hat, “Dad” hat & fake mustache, giant cards, balloon campfire, water pistol.
Narrator: Once, in the wild wild west, there was a young woman named Annie… (more…)
High wire Gospel skit
High wire Gospel skit – using the classic “slack rope” clown routine to demonstrate the Gospel
Props: a length of rope (at least 6 feet long), a stuffed toy animal (or balloon twisted) to ride on the clown’s back at the end, tape measure, balancing stick, parasol
Required: 4 or more clowns, one to act as announcer, one to act as the high-wire walker, the rest to act as the crowd
The skit begins with the clowns walking on stage – while the announcer steps forward and begins talking, two of the clowns in the background, each taking an end of the rope, and walking apart, making the “high wire” (more…)
