Well, for one, I don't think you have a clear understanding of good skits, there are a lot of not so good skits out there. But the real use of a skit is to be a vehicle that the clown uses to ammuse people. It doesn't matter if I am picking a flower to take to another clown or trying to make a magic trick work. The magic is not in the skit. The magic is in HOW the skit is performed. It is the timing, the chemistry between the performer and the audience. The costuming helps identify the performer as a "clown" and for some performers it acts as a release allowing them to be the zany character. But it is a learned response that these crazy outfits mean clowns and laughter. Baby toys are created mostly in the primary colors because there are studies about what the baby's eyes are attracted to. Actually some of those studies are fairly fasinating reading, however just because the their toys are in primary colors it doesn't cause all the infants to break into laughter when they enter their playroom.
Besides, color theory works in a subtle, low key way, many prisons that went with the fad of painting everything the "calming, subdueing" colors later found that for short term durations the colors did seem to have the desired effect (at least minimaly) but with longer exposures the effect was reversed and the inmates became more combative.
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