For some reason, society has decided that people who dress up in over-sized shoes, water-squirting flowers, white make up, a round red nose and colorful outfits are sources of funny stuff. Perhaps it comes as no surprise that there are a great many people who are deathly afraid of the odd balls: clowns. It’s an interesting thing to consider what would possess someone to dawn all the clown accoutrements and go out to try to make people laugh. Sure, clowns have been around a long time and there are several paintings that highlight clowns over the ages. But are clowns really funny?
One thing that is a big peculiar is that in the South American country of Peru, clowns perform at wedding receptions. There are many gags they have, each one containing less funny stuff than the last. As the clown begins pulling what seems like a never ending handkerchief out from his pocket, the audience members knows what to expect. It is a stale gag that no longer has any humor. So maybe clowns are meant only for kids, for they haven’t seen these bad jokes a hundred times. But then why do kids tend to cry when clowns are around? It’s because they are not only not funny, but they are somewhat scary to many people.
Another cheap bit that clowns have become known for is piling about ten clowns into a single car. Perhaps that is a weird thing, or an impressive act knowing the amount of contortion that had to happen for them all to fit in the car, but it is not funny stuff. Humor is, after all, a purely subjective thing. But that doesn’t mean it’s appropriate to give clowns the benefit of the doubt. There are even movies that peg clowns as the murderous villains or as space aliens with a taste for human blood. Does that sound funny? No. No it does not.
Perhaps being a clown is a noble profession to some. Everyone’s must eat, and more so, everyone’s got to be entertained. Being entertained by a clown is hardly entertainment at all, however. And it certainly isn’t funny stuff. The popular animated show, “The Simpsons”, has a character named Krusty the Clown. Now he actually is funny, but that’s primarily because he is parodying the other clowns in the world. He’s a hard-drinking, gambling, attention-craving clown without a real moral compass. That’s the best way for clowns to be remembered.
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