[Chance Marmalade]

I've always liked characters that were a bit prone to gambling, card tricks and sucker bets. Before I got into clowning I was interested in magic, especially card tricks or card cons like the Three Card Monte. I have also always been partial to sucker bets. Chance came from that.

Marmalade was the last name of an eccentric dancer in vaudeville and also had a nice silly ring to it.

I was The Great Hankini for a time when I was doing a lot of handkerchief stuff, after that and up until the last year or so I went by Chance Magellan because a performing partner and I were playing world traveling vaudevillians. That act was a lot of fun. I may revamp it for a single clown and take it out on the streets again!