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One Clown Who I Forgot… until today!
In Pittsburgh we had a great tradition for TV wrestling called Studio Wrestling. I’m on a Pittsburgher fb network and today someone posted a photo of our greatest referee who was essentially a clown. We all adored him. Izzy Moidel. His schtick was to be a ‘blind’ referee, that means he would always miss seeing…
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The Legendary George Carl and Another Funny Meeting
George Carl, the Tumbler George Carl was an excellent tumbler and was the topmounter in the teeterboard act in the Tom Mix Circus. I think he was topmounter to 4-man high. He told me that one day in Chicago he was doing pure tumbling on the grass by the lake, he was tumbling with the…
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Absolute Clowning: Preston Sturges
I’m halfway through seeing the three series of the TV show FARGO. As usual I’m an advocate of the clown Max Wall’s philosophy of life which he said was “One thing leads to another “. In reading about Fargo I saw that the writer Noah Hawley was commissioned by FX to “create a Coen Brothers”…
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Non-Clown Clowns
Clown is a natural phenomenon. Clowns appear in all fields of human activity. I also include Clowns who are infrequently recognised as ‘clowns’ so I give them one of my highest compliments by calling them also “Non-Clown Clown”(s). Several of the other 50+ blogs on this site are about other Non-Clown Clowns. The 50+ blogs…
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Einstein and The Radical Clown
Wavy Gravy was one of the first radical clowns within the hippie movement. His performance career started in standup comedy and the more radical comedian Lenny Bruce was Wavy’s manager. Wavy’s real or birth name was Hugh Romney. His one comedy album is as Hugh Romney that album is on youtube. Hugh’s family moved to…
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The Incredible Clown – Sid Caesar
Astounding. ACTOR/CLOWN/WRITER SID CAESAR The link below is the main link/source that someone has made to list ALL of Sid Caesar’s work available on youtube!!!!!!!!!! There is one category of 16 of his pantomime solos!!!!!! I suppose I told you I saw him LIVE. NYC. Lower East Side venue called The Village Gate a 300…
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Post-Pandemic Comedy of 1922 about Doctors/Medicine
Comedy made shortly after the Spanish Flu Pandemic. Doctors in the same field may often hold very different opinions. Thus the old adage “get a second opinion”. If you need a doctor go to one. BUT it is known that one tries to find a ‘good’ one as some doctors are better than others. For…
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Ponydance: Clown? Dance? Or beyond?
Clown Phenomenon – Pony Dance To my understanding ‘clown’ is like the archetypal ‘fool’ as per the tarot card – an independent wanderer about to step from a precipice into an abyss called home. When you see Pony Dance whether in a theatre, street or club it is, as if, you’ve been welcomed home after…
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Synchronistic Shakespeare
On the days that I do yoga in my living room I am surrounded by 8 bookcases. When I do seated asanas I am next to 2 of the bookcases. One of those has my books on Shakespeare, Chaplin, Beckett, Joyce. So I always see titles which tempt me. I almost always give in that…
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Four Cultural Hugs
FOUR CULTURAL HUGS First a bit of background with some thoughts about Culture and National Identity.The four hugs I have written about each took place within a Cultural experience. Every faction of the world is jostling for the right of judgement through the might of reason and self-defined forms of logic. Logic in the real…
