It’s lovely to have choices. There were two different Downtown Clown options in Manhattan this evening. The New York Downtown Clown Revue had the Bongar Challenge: enter, be really funny, exit in 3 minutes. And over at the Flea Theatre Greg DeSanto was showing clips from his vast collection of comedy videos. I chose the latter because Greg DeSanto was one of the clowns who came off the road to teach us slaps and falls when I went to Clown College. The films I enjoyed most were a short film from the 70′s of clowns in Clown Alley putting on their makeup. It featured a young Frosty Little who had retired from the road by the time he taught us at Clown College. The other really cool thing to see was home movies of a young George Carl doing gymnastics and parts of his act out on the lawn for his family in Ohio. I am glad people like Greg DeSanto have taken it upon themselves to collect this cool stuff.
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