Wednesday, March 14, 2012

To Be a Great Clown

The following clip is an excerpt from the film Always Leave Them Laughing. The film is about a young comic who plays second-rate nightclubs and chintzy resorts while struggling to break into the big time. In the following scene Eddie Eagen (Bert Lahr) tells Kip Cooper (Milton Berle) what makes a great clown.

I am by no means an expert on clown, but what Eddie says is bang on. It's not just the jokes. The good stuff starts at 1m39s.

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