Howdi Everyone,
I work as a full time clown and magician doing mostly parties, and I want to be the best I can be. In my attempt to be the best I have been watching and reading about as much clowning and physical comedy as I can. Majority of this is obviously circus or stage skits.
When I started doing kids parties a good friend of mine said take care not to hit yourself as this let the kids know that it is ok to hit you too. The problem I see with that though is the funniest clowning I see is where the clown gets themselves in helpless trouble. I think from a philosophical point of view this is right it just isn't that practical out of the ring. I personally believe that kids need clowns so they can see adult type people make a fool of themselves like they do as kids. They get a chance to laugh at someone else's mishaps. So how does one act like a child, stay funny and .. drum roll... also stay an authoritative figure? I am starting to believe that clowns belong in circuses and on stages only where they can truly act like clowns.
This all comes out as I did a 2 hour roam at a children's football carnival today. 100's of kids and they where all snatchy (I had to run off to reattach my nose twice) so it prevented me from being as funny as I like to be because I had to continue to watch my back.
Is it possible to be an authoritative buffoon?
(I would like to follow Rumple's theory that if someone has the pportunity to think about picking on you, they aren't laughing hard enough)
