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  2. Emmett Kelly - Wikipedia

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    Emmett Leo Kelly was born in Sedan, Kansas on December 9, 1898. His father, Thomas, was a section foreman for the Missouri-Pacific Railroad. While he was still a child, the family moved to Southern Missouri where his father had purchased a farm in Texas County, near the community of Houston, Missouri. [1] In the summer of 1909, he attended both ...

  3. Heyoka - Wikipedia

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    The heyoka (heyókȟa, also spelled "haokah," "heyokha") is a kind of sacred clown in the culture of the Sioux (Lakota and Dakota people) of the Great Plains of North America. The heyoka is a contrarian, jester, and satirist, who speaks, moves and reacts in an opposite fashion to the people around them. Only those having visions of the thunder ...

  4. Clown - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Quentin Blake - Wikipedia

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    2002. Sir Quentin Saxby Blake, CH, CBE, FRSL, FCSD, RDI (born 16 December 1932) is an English cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and children's writer. He has illustrated over 300 books, including 18 written by Roald Dahl, which are among his most popular works. [a] For his lasting contribution as a children's illustrator he won the biennial ...

  6. Bozo the Clown - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. List of clowns - Wikipedia

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    Oleg Popov (1930–2016), Russian clown, student of Karandash. Otto Griebling – (1896–1972), American Master Clown with the Cole Bros. and Ringling circuses. Muhammad Ali with clowns Charlie Frye and Skeeter Reece in 1980. Paul Hunt – gymnast clown. Pierre Étaix (1928–2016), French clown, comedian and filmmaker.

  8. The Hole Truth... and Nothing Butt - Wikipedia

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    The Hole Truth... and Nothing Butt is the third of three Butthole Surfers albums to feature clown imagery on the cover, the others being 1984's Live PCPPEP and 1987's Locust Abortion Technician. The clown illustrations on this album's front cover are combined and re-colored versions of the line drawings on Live PCPPEP's front and back covers.

  9. Harlequinade - Wikipedia

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    Harlequinade is an English comic theatrical genre, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "that part of a pantomime in which the harlequin and clown play the principal parts". It developed in England between the 17th and mid-19th centuries. It was originally a slapstick adaptation or variant of the commedia dell'arte, which originated in ...

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