LES PAUWELS

Link courtesy of Karen Bell

Post by Lionel Lutringer.

ØRKENES SØNNER: Gas

Post by Ørkenens Sønner.

JACKO FOSSETT & LITTLE BILLY MERCHANT: Soap Entree (Billy Smart's Circus)

YANN FRISCH

Post by Alessio Orotsam.

STEVE & RYAN: 2014 Promo

THE INTERNATIONAL CLOWN HALL OF FAME 2014 INDUCTION

Tonight, July 23, the ICHoF honors and inducts these 4 clowns: Dougie Ashton, Paul Wenzel, Chuck Burnes & Swede Johnson. Ceremony begins at 7:30pm at the ICHoF in Baraboo, WI. It is open to the public and limited seating is available. Admission is $10.00. Join us as we begin Baraboo's Circus Celebration and we salute these funnymen and their careers with kind words, rare video clips of their work and family members. It's guaranteed to be a once in a lifetime event!

 

Chuck Burnes

Dougie Ashton

Prof. Paul Wenzel

Carl "Swede" Johnson (photo by Robert Altman)

THE BIG APPLE CIRCUS CLOWN CARE UNIT: Johns Hopkins Children's Center

My friend Matthew Pauli beautifully articulating what is so wonderful about hospital clowning done well...

Big Apple Circus Clown Care at Johns Hopkins from Peter Philip Von Kahle on Vimeo.

IKEDA YOSUKE: Hello, Goodbye

Link courtesy of Jeff Gordon


Ikeda Yosuke "HelloGoodbye" by ikeikey

SUNDAY MORNING ART GALLERY: "Pierrot's Serenade" by Maxfield Parrish (1908)

CLOWN ALLEY: Vanity Fair Photo by Lusha Nelson (May 1, 1934)

Felix Adler, Jack LeClair, Charlie Bell and two unidentified "funny folk".

From the International Clown Hall of Fame...

The International Clown Hall of Fame is dedicated to preserving the art and craft of the clown worldwide.

We hope everyone who visits this page, the ICHoF Facebook page and our website enjoys the images and the history that we have worked to compile and share.

We are confronted with a financial situation that needs our immediate attention. We respectfully ask for your support to help solve this problem and allow us to continue to preserve and present the artifacts and images that represent this worldwide art form. We need to raise a minimum of $600.00 by this Friday, July 27, 2014. If you can help, please visit our website at www.theclownmuseum.com and donate via our Paypal link button. No amount is too small to help.

We appreciate the generosity shown to this organization in the past and hope we can count on the over 6,453 individuals who follow us on Facebook to help us overcome this challenge.

The Board of Directors of the ICHOF thanks you in advance for your generosity.

THE GOOD FRIEND: The Story of Jim Howle and Teddy Goodman (A Nic Beery Film)

The Good Friend - The Story of Jim Howle and Teddy Goodman from BeeryMedia.com on Vimeo.

ERNIE "BLINKO" BURCH: Captain Blinko, Space Clown (Early 1960s)

IN MEMORIAM: Richard Fick

Photo courtesy of the International Clown Hall of Fame

THE WHY FACTOR: The Fool (BBC World Service)

Link courtesy of David Burd

A 17:30 minute piece on the history of fools, jesters and clowning from the BBC World Service.

ARGO: From the London Coliseum

CLOWN ALLEY: Mills Bros. Circus (Circa 1960s)

Herman Joseph, Buck Leahy and Bumpsy Anthony in an
undated photograph that I would estimate comes from the early 1960s

MICHAEL "COCO" POLAKOVS: Mills Bros. Circus (5/29/1954)

Clown
Photo by Sverre O. Braathen courtesy of the Milner Library Special Collections

HOW TO DO VISUAL COMEDY: An Analysis of the Comedy Techniques and Style of Director Edgar Wright