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Circus-style. Lulu Adams - early 20th century British female clown. Albert Alter - American clown. António Branco – Batatinha (literally Little Potato), from Portugal. Arthur Vercoe Pedlar – "Vercoe", an English clown. Barry Lubin – "Grandma", star clown of the Big Apple Circus. Bim Bom – clown duo of early 20th Century Russia.
A clown is a person who performs physical comedy and arts in an open-ended fashion, typically while wearing distinct makeup or costuming and reversing folkway-norms. The art of performing as a clown is known as clowning or buffoonery, and the term "clown" may be used synonymously with predecessors like jester, joker, buffoon, fool, or harlequin ...
Roly Bain. Neil Baldwin (Keele University) Ricardo Bell (clown) Jack Bologna. Frank Brown (entertainer) Leela Bunce.
1807 portrait of Joseph Grimaldi by John Cawse. Joseph Grimaldi (18 December 1778 – 31 May 1837) [1] was an English actor, comedian and dancer, who became the most popular English entertainer of the Regency era. [2] In the early 19th century, he expanded the role of Clown in the harlequinade that formed part of British pantomimes, notably at ...
English clowns (27 P) S. Scottish clowns (2 P) Pages in category "British clowns" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Baldwin himself is a registered clown and used to perform in the circus which helped him to land his dream job as kitman at Stoke City. In October 2018 Cairoli was honoured with his own Heritage Tram - Boatcar 227 in red and ivory livery restored by the Civic Trust to its 1934 condition, with an image of his face on it, and nicknamed "Charlie's ...
Harlequinade is an English comic theatrical genre, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "that part of a pantomime in which the harlequin and clown play the principal parts". It developed in England between the 17th and mid-19th centuries. It was originally a slapstick adaptation or variant of the commedia dell'arte, which originated in ...
Bozo the Clown, sometimes billed as " Bozo, The World's Most Famous Clown ", is a clown character created for children's entertainment, widely popular in the second half of the 20th century. He was introduced in the United States in 1946, and to television in 1949, later appearing in franchised television programs of which he was the host ...