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[skonen_blades]

I

There’s a white circle on the outside of his wallet, smaller than a condom. It’s from his wedding ring that he sheds like the skin of the snake in the garden of Eden before tempting Eve with apples.

II

I’ve never known a funny professional clown, an anarchist who doesn’t care about rules, or a hippie that isn’t exclusionary.

III

When someone says “I fight like a girl”, lay down your weapons and surrender.

IV

He said, “Remove some bush from the fishing holes so that fishermen don’t catch their flies on their back cast. IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.”

I had no idea what he meant.

V

I have a Vietnam de plume.





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[monkeypudding.livejournal.com]

I can introduce you to some clowns if you like

[skonen-blades.livejournal.com]

Well, that sentence is more of an outright lie than the others. I'm not a fan of generalizations as a rule. That was someone else that said and it was more "Some of the unfunniest people I know are clowns." which, to me, is more telling of a professional approaching the science of humour as a craft. Sure there are people that tell funny stories but get a 'for real' clown talking about comedy and you get a treatise, not a comedy routine. Unless they're in character.

The gravity and seriousness of clowning is something I've seen a lot of but not really understood. I'm aware that's total ignorance on my part. Sort of how I don't get why the french this Jerry Lewis is a some sort of savant. Also, I've always been more of a Marx brothers guy than a Three Stooges person. I feel like a lot of physical comedy goes over my head when people start earmarking it as genius.

I remember after being in a comedy troupe for four years, I stopped laughing at comedy routines. I merely thought to myself "Nice callback. Solid three. Good line. Excellent delivery there. Oops. He screwed that one up. A tuck there and it'd be better. Good execution." and so on. It took years before I could just relax and enjoy a good comedy routine again like a normal person.

I think that's got something to do with it.

I've seen some SUPERLATIVE clowning in Fringe shows here and there but as for clowns themselves, well, there's a 'tears of a clown' thing that happens a lot, isn't there? Clowns fascinate me. It's a rabbit hole I haven't plumbed.

Didn't you do a lot of clowning back in the day? Like you went to school for it or something, right?