The Joke's On You -- Who Should be the Butt of Your Jokes?

Written by Tom Raymond


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For example, when I perform at birthday parties, I'll typically do a very old routine, making spring flowers appear inside a chick pan. As part of that, I'll have several assistants fromrepparttar audience at various stage, including one where I use a breakaway wand. Forrepparttar 147703 uninitiated, that's a wand that, unless it's heldrepparttar 147704 proper way, seemingly breaks in your hand. Since we performers arerepparttar 147705 ones who should bearrepparttar 147706 blame for this, I takerepparttar 147707 blame myself, handing a normal wand torepparttar 147708 child, and holdingrepparttar 147709 breaking wand myself. Who brokerepparttar 147710 prop? Me! Who looks foolish? Me, notrepparttar 147711 volunteer. He's there to enjoyrepparttar 147712 birthday party, not to be a scapegoat.

In short, if only that magician had pulledrepparttar 147713 'underwear out of thin air' when he was holdingrepparttar 147714 scarfs, what would have been different? The child volunteer would have laughed as well (assuming that he'd previously hadrepparttar 147715 trick work in her hands),repparttar 147716 audience would have laughed as well, andrepparttar 147717 magician would have been remembered a little bit fonder than he was.

As Benjamin Franklin said, we have to learn fromrepparttar 147718 mistakes of others; we won't live long enough to make them all ourselves. So, let's learn to make ourselvesrepparttar 147719 butt ofrepparttar 147720 joke, not our audience. After all, we're being paid to be foolish;repparttar 147721 audience's job is to enjoy it. Remember,repparttar 147722 joke's on you -- as it should be.

Tom Raymond, aka Raynbow the Magic Clown, is a professional children's entertainer in the central Wisconsin area, and is available for parties, conferences, conventions and ministry events. Interested in clowns and clowning? Check out Clown Ministry, the largest clowning site on the web!


A Real Clown or Not? how to tell if you're a real clown, as told by a real clown

Written by Tom Raymond


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torepparttar parents that I get really scared by little kids when they're frightened. This serves several purposes -- it makesrepparttar 147702 clownrepparttar 147703 scaredy cat and letsrepparttar 147704 child offrepparttar 147705 hook, it reflectsrepparttar 147706 fear torepparttar 147707 child and allows him to be brave in comparison torepparttar 147708 clown, and it allowsrepparttar 147709 clown to "lower himself" and raiserepparttar 147710 child up. Of course, it also getsrepparttar 147711 message across to Mom & Dad -- whenrepparttar 147712 child is ready, he or she will willingly come byrepparttar 147713 clown, andrepparttar 147714 experience will berepparttar 147715 happy onerepparttar 147716 parents wanted inrepparttar 147717 first place.

(originally published at http://www.clown-ministry.com/Articles/fear-of-a-clown.html)

Finally, think about your clown make up. Remember thatrepparttar 147718 purpose of clown make up is to amplify your own natural features. Do not overdo your make up -- remember, less is more. You want to entertain children, not frighten them.

Tom Raymond, aka Raynbow the Magic Clown, is a professional children's entertainer in the central Wisconsin area, and is available for parties, conferences, conventions and ministry events. Interested in clowns and clowning? Check out Clown Ministry, the largest clowning site on the web!


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