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This page is dedicated to the clowns that I have personally known and / or observed, who have inspired me over the years and who I look to as role models as I perfect my own clowning. I have broken it into two parts.

Part I  highlights clowns I have personally known or have actually watched their performances. They are on this page because they truly exemplify their callings and talents as clowns. All of them are clowns for the only "right" reason to be clowns; to ease the burdens of those they come in contact with on a daily and, yes, even hourly basis.

Part II  is dedicated to my personal favorites from the historical pages of clowning. These, too, seemed to truly exemplify their callings and talents as clowns.

Read both sections and enjoy learning about some really great clowns; past and present. (click on each thumbnail below to read why each qualifies as one of my Clown Heroes)


Part IWheeler the Clown CLOWNS I HAVE PERSONALLY KNOWN          

Shrine Clowns*

  Hugo  

Wobblie  

Willie 

Otto

Shrine Clown Logo

Hugo

  Wobblie

Willie the Classic Clown

Otto

.

Tootsie

Maw Bee

          Mo

Rodeo Clowns

Happy Lil Darling

Tootsie

  Mawbee  

  Mo Lite

Rodeo Clowns

Happy L'il Darling


Part IIEmmett "Weary WIllie" Kelly Sr. CLOWNS WE ALL KNOW AND ADMIRE

And who are all inductees in the real (official) Clown Hall of Fame

  (click on the thumbnails below to see a bigger picture and to read more about each "Hall of Fun-er)

 Joseph Grimaldi  

            Yankee Dan Rice

            Weary Willie

 Lou Jacobs

      Joseph Grimaldi, the Father of Clowning   

Yankee Dan Rice

 Emmett "Weary Willie" Kelly Sr.  

Lou Jacobs

  Albert Fratellini 

Peggy Williams

Coco Poliakov

Bert Austin Williams

 

Emmett "Weary Willie" Kelly Sr.

 Peggy Williams

Nikolai "Coco" Poliakov

Bert Austin Williams


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