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Monday, March 3, 2014

World Faces Clown Shortage: Future with Less Terrified Children



The Daily Mail UK reports, in rather histrionic prose (which is actually pretty normal for them – I love them), about the worldwide shortage in clowns.  The World Clown Association membership has fallen from 3,500 to 2,000 in the past decade. 
 
Less of this: Good
The quote of the article is this: The challenge is getting younger people involved in clowning,' said Association President Deanna Hartmier told the Daily News

Yes, that’s the challenge.  It’s a challenge to get young people into a career where you dress up like the homicidal villain in a horror novel who lives in a gutter and kills children, like this guy in England It’s hard to get people into a profession, where your members double as hit-clowns in Mexico.   They’re freaking terrifying.  Hell, dressing up as a clown is essentially just putting on a criminal disguiseTake a look at the pictures in the article, and that’s all it takes.

“Clowning” as a profession, rather than as a hobby, where someone clowns someone else in the Urban Dictionary sense, is dying off, and good riddance.  Apparently, even the clown organizations know that as soon as a kid interested in clowns, who isn’t otherwise terrified of clowns, gets to high school and finds out clowns aren’t cool, they drop out and then come back in their 40’s and 50’s when they get paid $300 to show up at a kid’s birthday party and terrify all the children.

The only thing likely to get it back is for the World Clown Association to declare it totally uncool, make it ironic, and have hipsters adopt it like handlebar mustaches and skinny jeans.  Then, there will be a clown enclave in Brooklyn, Wicker Park, and East Austin. 

Next thing up is the mimes.

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