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April 25, 2006
Clowning Around
can relate to this guy:
The Easter Bunny has been fired — for losing his head. Arthur J. McClure, 22, who had been hired to play the Easter Bunny at a local mall has been accused of removing the head of the costume and hitting a customer, authorities said.
I once worked with a guy who was a magician/ clown/ entertainer/ ventriloquist. I learned how to apply clown makeup and do birthday parties, along with a few magic tricks. I'd also dress up as a Power Ranger, Santa Claus, and Batman. I'll never forget the 8-year-old kid who thought it a good idea to punch Batman in the family jewels. The parents apologized--but they were smiling.
As Santa Claus, the crowd was more adult and I was out of my league with pretending to be their man in red and white. Getting the women to sit on my lap. Doing my Ho Ho Hos. They paid up so they must have felt it was worth it.
I only did that for about six months. I really wasn't up to that kind of sporadic entertainment challenge. The one thing I discovered is how many people in that industry are angry people. (Some exceptions...some really lovely clown couples.)
Anyway, it was only temporary. My boss at that time told me a story later that had me splitting my gut. He had severe bleeding hemroids. So bad that at one time he had to be hospitalized and given blood transfusions.
Well, one day he's driving down a California freeway dressed as a clown on his way to a gig when he runs out of gas. (He was always running out of gas.) He was on the side of the freeway thinking about walking to a gas station when he started bleeding. He was bleeding so bad that he held onto the freeway railing because he was getting weak from the bleeding.
He realizes that he might die here on the freeway if he didn't get help, so he tried to wave down some cars, but everone only saw a clown waving at them so they waved back. And here he is going to bleed to death.
I forget how the story ended (I was laughing too hard.) Obviously, he managed to get help.
So let that be a lesson to you. Not every clown waving at you is happy.
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Posted by witnit at April 25, 2006 10:06 AM
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