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Clowning Around: On the Principles of Clowning


On the principles of clowning. "The most basic technique of the clown is to create and maintain rapport."

Eric Andre and Sacha Baron Cohen and Amy Sedaris are bouffons—the other kind of dumb dumb—a freak who makes you think. And here’s an explanation from John Gilkey, a more cutting edge clown/idiot who deals with the more esoteric timeless intercultural concept of a fool/trickster (also a white man tho): A string stretched between two continents and plucked by a virgin resonates at the same frequency as a sperm whale chuckling to hermself.

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