Members of my local clown alley, Just Clowning Around of Northern Virginia (JCA) got together to create several clown videos and skits. This is a fun little video of the clowns going for a ride in their clown car. There will be more videos from their meeting coming soon…
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Clown Dreams
Holly Kapler will get her diploma from Liberty High on Thursday, after earning a 4.0 grade-point average, and now has her sights firmly set on getting a job as a clown.
Clown Docs at St. Louis Children’s Hospital
The Clown Docs at St. Louis Children’s Hospital are professionally trained clowns who use humor to distract patients from their hospital experience and to relieve stress among patients, family members and staff. The troupe is funded entirely through generous donations to the hospital.
Category: Clowns, Hospital Clowns, Videos
Circus Clown Andrew Hicks
A short video showcasing Andrew’s favorite moments with Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey thus far. These clips are all from his first 4 years. 3 years on Blue and one year on Gold.
Category: Circus, Clown Skits, Clowns, Videos
The Singing Clown!
The Singing Clown! by SevenSuperGirls
Out of nowhere a singing clown trying to deliver a telegram just shows up in Kaelyn’s backyard while she is trying to relax and enjoy the day.
Category: Clown Skits, Clowns, Videos
The Good Friend – The Story of Jim Howle and Teddy Goodman
from BeeryMedia.com
Friendship. A film about lifelong friendship. Its importance to the human condition can not be underestimated.
The Good Friend – The Story of Jim Howle and Teddy Goodman from BeeryMedia.com on Vimeo.
Meet Jim Howle, The Greatest Clown Artist on Earth. A Ringling Brothers Clown that also has had great success painting, teaching comedy, and is a mentor for so many clowns and artists. His friendship’s are legendary.
Meet Teddy Goodman. A Clown student that attended the very first Ringling Brothers Clown College in 1968. That’s where he met Jim Howle, who was also a student that first year. It was the height of the Vietnam War and during Clown College, Ted was drafted and had to report for duty. Ted was devastated, but did what was right for his country. Upon getting his physical, Uncle Sam declared him 4F and rejected him because of his poor eye sight, weight and flat feet.
Ted never was able to get back to Clown College, let alone tour with the circus. His life became a series of misadventures, journeying from job to job, accident to accident.
Forty years later, Jim and Ted re-connected and the friendship from all those years ago picked up right where it left off.
This is where “The Good Friend” begins. A story of caring even when there are the obstacles of distance, time and age. True friendship and true characters.
Category: Circus, Clown Makeup, Clown Skits, Clowns, News, Videos
Clown Doctors Help Heal with Humor
They say that laughter is the best medicine and The Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit has been helping doctors by bringing humor into their hospitals since 1986. HooplaHa recently spent a day at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, Maryland with original Clown Care team member Bill Boots (Dr. Boots) and his partner Matthew Pauli (Dr. Spats). Members of the Clown Care team work with physicians to conduct ‘clown rounds,’ their own version of medical rounds, where the healing power of humor is always the prescription!
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More Clown College Audition Dates Announced
Feld Entertainment has announced two more dates for their 2014 Clown College® Auditions. This time, they will be on Tuesday, July 29th, 2014 in Anaheim, CA 92806 and Wednesday, August 6th in Dallas, TX. This is a once-in-a–lifetime opportunity to audition to become part of The World Famous Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® Clown Alley.
Register to participate in the auditions at http://www.ringling.com/clownauditions/
Ringling’s Clown College® Auditions
Tuesday, July 29th
10:00am – 1:30pm
Honda Center
2695 E. Katella Ave.
Anaheim, CA 92806
Wednesday, August 6th
10:00am – 1:30pm
American Airlines Center
2500 Victory Ave.
Dallas, TX 75201
FreeState Clown Alley #30 visits the Cole Bros Circus
My friends are members of Circus Fans of America and as circus fans, they go to as many circus performances as possible. Sometimes, they will arrange to provide lunch, or freeroll as it is called, for the circus performers between shows.
On Saturday, April 26, 2014, the FreeState Clown Alley visited the Cole Bros Circus and provided freeroll (lunch) to the people working on the circus. They also had the chance to entertain on the circus midway.
I made a short video of their visit to the circus.
Ringling Clown Auditions 2014 – Hershey, PA
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus held Clown College Auditions on Friday, May 23, 2014 at the Giant Center in Hershey, PA. This was my first opportunity to actually attend one of their auditions.
Auditions began at 10:00am in the morning. The auditions began as a workshop that include a few warm up activities followed by some group improv. Then, everyone who came to audition had an opportunity to perform a 3 to 5 minute routine. Several of the participants displayed their talents with juggling, stilts, and the roller blades. I performed a brief clown skit. The auditions ended with one on one conversations between the applicants and the Ringling staff.
The Patriot-News/PennLive.com posted a video to YouTube that includes a few brief scenes from Friday’s auditions.