Shakes the Clown is a 1991 American black comedy film[2] directed and written by Bobcat Goldthwait, who performs the title role. It also features Julie Brown, Blake Clark, Paul Dooley, Kathy Griffin, Florence Henderson, Tom Kenny, Adam Sandler, Scott Herriott, LaWanda Page, Jack Gallagher, and a cameo by Robin Williams as Mime Jerry using the pseudonym "Marty Fromage".
The film is a satire of performance art and portrays different communities of clowns and other performers as clannish, rivalrous subcultures obsessed with precedence and status. Goldthwait made the film as a satire of the dysfunctional standup comedy circuit at the time he was first starting out as an entertainer.[3] When the film was first released, it was widely panned, but in recent years, reaction has become more favorable, largely due to how the film handled the serious topic of alcoholism. Shakes the Clown has since become a cult classic.[4][5]
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as ShakestheClown (1991) and Comic Book: The Movie (2004). On television, he would host the "Music News" segments of Friday Night Videos in the early...
and John. He appeared in the 1992 movie ShakestheClown with One Crazy Summer co-stars Bob Goldthwait and Tom Villard. In the first, second, fourth, fifth...
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and American Sniper (2014). He has also directed Trouble with the Curve (2012) and The Marksman (2021). As a producer he has been nominated three times...
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the entertainment industry. He initially found work as a clown for children's birthday parties. In New York he soon found success as a regular on the...
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horror The Unseen; the slimy Charlie P. in the cult film Sonny Boy; and the effeminate lackey Gopher in Deep Cover (1992). Lassick also was the voice of...
Harry "The Hardware Store Guy" on Home Improvement. Clark has voiced Slinky Dog in the Toy Story franchise starting with 2008's Toy Story: The Musical...
to New York City to attend the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in the early 1970s. In 1980, Villard...
Heaven (1990), ShakestheClown, (1991), CB4 (1993), Friday (1995) and Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)....
shakes off his black hair, revealing his natural green clown hair, and removes his normal-looking fake nose to reveal his natural red bulbous clown nose...
Gay") "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun" "The Art of Being Fabulous" "Another Drunk Chick" (a parody of the Kesha song "Tik Tok") "Big Clown Pants" (a...
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Hayes and Frank Loesser, On the Beam, and together they performed a number of variety acts for the troops. Following the war, Silver moved to New York...
studied drama at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and became a member of the improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings. In the 1990s, Griffin...
entitled "Pilot". The same lineup also appeared in motion pictures, including Day of the Dead, ShakestheClown, and 28 Days. When the NRBQ stopped touring...
Ghost Coast to Coast entitled "Pilot". The group appeared in feature films, including Day of the Dead, ShakestheClown, and 28 Days. Their cover version of...
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Bobcat Goldthwait (the latter previously worked with Brown in Medusa: Dare to Be Truthful and ShakestheClown). Frequent guest stars on the series included...
decades, she is best known for her starring role as Carol Brady on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch. Henderson also appeared in film, as well as on stage...
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