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How do y'all feel about Clowns?

posted a year ago by M1sterDoct0r (4070)
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Like in general. Do they make you laugh or do they scare you? I just watched a pretty interest video on a clown

Video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_kI85WS2-x0

Personally, I'm kinda indifferent to them. I've met a few in my lifetime but none of them made any kinda impression on me

They haven't made me genuinely laugh out loud or traumatise me in any way.

And I've liked some pop culture clowns like Joker, Pennywise & Krusty the Clown but I've never had a fascination or fear of them

[–] [deleted] a year ago

I try to avoid the politics boards.

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4070) a year ago

Ayoooo! haha

[–] db20db (16571) a year ago

I used to have a poster of the iconic Emmett Kelly which said, "Share with me my sadness and I'll share with you my joy."

[–] rootvegetables (1457) a year ago

Now you listen, and listen good:
These clowns will be the death of us all. It will soon be a world of clowns, jugglers and freaks. Mark my words.

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (73563) a year ago

Oddly enough I think a few of us would thrive in a world full of clowns, jugglers and freaks.

They should be worried about us.

[–] AndyKing1967 (35043) a year ago

Why? Do I amuse you?

[–] jriley555 (7229) a year ago

I'm like Kramer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bezOm6Vb45c

Seriously though, a good clown act is great.

[–] bobbydallas (8208) a year ago

LOL, one of the best seinfeld moments

[–] Wint3rFir3 (6931) a year ago

Proper circus type clowns, red nose and face paint included? Not my favourite. Historically, they have a bad rep for a reason, which is why they work so well in the horror genre. I'm not afraid, but I'm reasonably unsettled by them.

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4070) a year ago

Understandable. And you're right, they're a bit more creepy than funny.

[–] Wint3rFir3 (6931) a year ago

I wouldn't even call them funny, I think that type of humor is kind of out of date.

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4070) a year ago

Oh yes. The outdated slapstick humor & how Clowns have basically been portrayed as scary & monstrous in almost all of popular forms of entertainment has insured their decline

[–] Kowalski (63563) a year ago

MAKE SURE THEY TAKE THEIR MAKE-UP OFF BEFORE YOU HAVE SEX WITH THEM...OTHERWISE...IT MAKES A REAL MESS.

[–] chilone (17394) a year ago

That's part of the allure.

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4070) a year ago

But Kowalski, that's my kink.

[–] Otter (24464) a year ago

Circus-style clowns have vanished from the cultural landscape, haven't they? Circuses are gone, Barnum & Bailey etc. have shut down, there's nothing left of traditional clows but a few party clowns and the creepy clowns of horror movies.

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4070) a year ago

I think Hollywood kinda helped in their "downfall". Cause over 90% of Clown portrayals in show & films in the past 2 decades has been villainous/monstrous

I think that has 'helped' with their decline. We have an entire generation that has basically grown up with "scary clowns" in pop culture

[–] Otter (24464) a year ago

The only film I can think of from the last 50 years that featured clowns being funny, was "Shakes the Clown" (1991), starring Bob Goldthwaite as an alcoholic clown.

And most of the humor in that movie didn't come from the clowning, it came from the clowns sitting around the clown bar, being alcoholic losers who said horrible funny things, as they sat around wasting their lives.