July 19, 2006

Attack of the Evil Clowns You can make your own evil clown or ....

...you can rate evil clowns or watch their movies. Despite their undeniabely magnetic appeal there are reasons some people hate them. There are even evil clowns on Monkey filter.

posted by Berek 18 years ago
  • Some people (I'm not mentioning any names, you understand) want to ban clowns.
  • I almost forgot everyone's favorite evil clown:
  • I don't think I've ever been so glad for my company's proxy restrictions.
  • I always got upset when watching clowns as a kid. One of the clowns was always being picked on, and having the water poured over him etc. Then I was watching the remake of Solaris on TV with the sound down and the subtitles on, and what appears all over the dialogue but a flipping Insane Clown Posse track, which the subtitlers decided to show all the lyrics for. They're everywhere, and must be destroyed.
  • I always found that the scariest clowns were the ones that were supposed to be innocent and funny.
  • Clowns are raining down. Hear the scream of the grease paint. Danger! Clown puddles... --Sir Thomas Neville Servo
  • Augh!
  • Berek, please for the love of mime, get help for this clown obsession. Pirates can whip clowns anytime.
  • I *hate* clowns.... cannot click link...
  • There's a small country restaurant near me that features nothing but clown artwork on the walls of the dining room. Mostly just sappy stuff, but there is one picture of a clown with a little girl on his knee that is truly evil. She does not look happy, and he looks like it's not the lolipop that he wants to give her. Yuck.
  • Clowns are scary because THEY BREAK ALL THE RULES!!!
  • ALL THE RULES, PEOPLE!! ALL OF THEM!!! THIS CANNOT BE OVERSTATED!!!!!!!!!
  • ALL OF THEM!!!
  • BROKEN!!!!
  • Reminds me of...
  • *hides, drinks*
  • Hey little girl, you want a salted nut roll?
  • There ought to be a nice bounty on clowns. *snik-SNIK*
  • Fuck, clowns used to terrify me when I was a kid. And they never...stopped...being creepy.
  • Fear is good, it's one of our most primal emotions. Now help me set up this blind and a few claymores in the parking lot behind the big top.
  • Maybe it's cause their faces are all white like dead people, with big blood-red mouths?
  • I had no idea who the pictured clown was - had to research using the url. Maybe it'd be cool to Photoshop a clown gallery, using Clifford Olsen, Paul Bernardo et al.
  • We're gonna need more claymores.
  • *trundles in creampuff trebuchet*
  • Maybe it's cause their faces are all white like dead people Why do you not hate black dead people, you disgusting non-racist?
  • there is one picture of a clown with a little girl on his knee that is truly evil. She does not look happy, and he looks like it's not the lolipop that he wants to give her. Yuck. Yuck?! Yuck!? I think you mean YUCKO!!!!!!!!
  • Yucko is not scary, nor is he funny, nor is he clever. He is just a stupid asshole in a costume.
  • Monkeyfilter: He is just a stupid asshole in a costume.
  • and? Isn't there one more thing you wanted to say, Nick? C'mon, Nick, you know you want to...
  • Shirt-disturber!
  • LBB
  • But in general, I believe that it is inappropriate to post "LBB" in threads that Berek actually started.
  • Clowning is a form of entertainment which has appeared in some manner in virtually every culture. In most cultures the clown is a ritual character associated with festival or rites of passage and is often very different from the most popular western form. In Europe, up until as late as the 19th century the clown was a typical everyday character, and often appeared in carnivals. The performance is symbolic of liminality - being outside the rules of regular society the clown is able to subvert the normal order, and this basic premise is contemporarily used by many activists to point out social absurdity. A popular early form of clown was the fool, a role that can be traced back as far as ancient Egypt and appears as the first card in the tarot deck. Most fools suffered from some physical or mental deformity, and were given to the local landlord as a charge, because their families were unable to look after them, and the surrounding communities often feared them. They were the butt of jokes, and their masters had the power to inflict violence upon them and even take their lives. However, being perceived 'idiots' they were often the only people in court who enjoyed free speech, and during the 16th century, especially in France, actors began to train as fools often in order to have the ability to make satirical comment. This is mainly where we get the contemporary idea of the court jester, immortalised and romanticised by actors such as Danny Kaye in The Court Jester. There is evidence of the 'wise fool' similar in function to the jester in many other cultures. The clown of this era and eras previous to it were also associated with jugglers, who were seen as the pariahs of society alongside actors, prostitutes and lepers, and thus (at least in Europe) wore stripes, or motley - cloth associated with marginalised people such as the condemned, with strong associations of the devil. Jugglers often used attributes of the clown, and the later court jesters often danced, performed acrobatics and juggled. During the 16th century the Commedia dell'arte also became a huge influence on perceptions of the clown in Europe, and influence which passed through pantomime, into vaudeville and on to the touring circuses of the 19th and 20th centuries. The Commedia took influences from the grotesque masked clowns of carnivals and mysteries, and began in market places as a way to sell vegetables. It became incredibly popular throughout Europe amongst both the general public and the courts. The stock characters of the commedia originally included the Zanni - peasant clowns, Pantalone, the old Miser, Il Dottore - The Banal Doctor, and then grew from there to incorporate the Lovers, Arlecchino, Pedrolino, and Brighella, who have survived into the twentieth century in one form or another. And no, I totally didn't swipe that from Wikipedia.
  • ...and let's give a big Monkeyfilter welcome to our old friend Pennywise!
  • I see your Pennywise and raise you a Darrell.
  • Evil Clown Porn (probably NSFW)
  • A very evil clown via.
  • No. Just...no. I am so not going there.
  • Finally, my horror has a name.