The whiteface clown

Traditionally, the whiteface clown uses " clown white " makeup to cover his or her entire face and neck with none of the underlying flesh color showing.

Most of the members performed in whiteface and clown makeup, and a typical show contained music ranging from the 1890s to the 1950s, in addition to original material.

KTTV in Los Angeles began broadcasting the first show, Bozo's Circus, in 1949 featuring Colvig as Bozo with his blue-and-red costume, oversized red hair and classic " whiteface " clown makeup on Fridays at 7: 30 p. m.

* rarely, the term clownface is used synonymously with clown white, the white foundation makeup of a whiteface clown.

A whiteface circus clown ( 1907 )

The whiteface ( or white clown ) holds the highest status in the clown hierarchy and is the oldest of the clown archetypes.

The whiteface clown is traditionally costumed more extravagantly than the other two clown types.

Canio, the tenor protagonist of Ruggiero Leoncavallo's famous tragic opera, " Pagliacci ", is usually garbed on stage as the whiteface variety of clown.

George Lafayette Fox was America's first great whiteface clown.

* Timothy Noel Tegge-American whiteface clown and ringmaster with the Shrine Circus

Once, when called upon to be a villain in a film ( The Fat Man, 1951 ), he refused to appear in his " Weary Willie " hobo persona, opting instead to portray a whiteface clown.

The name was derived from ranches in the town named after whiteface cattle.

Perhaps taking a cue from Ronson's glam-rock experience, Dylan made the surprising theatrical choice of wearing whiteface make-up at many of the shows.

File: Little whiteface view. jpg | View from the Gondola on the way to the summit of Little Whiteface

The whiteface character-type is often serious, all-knowing ( even if not particularly smart ), bossy and cocky.

He is clever and has much lower status than the whiteface.

If there is a contra-auguste character, he often is instructed by the whiteface to correct the auguste when he is doing something wrong.

In the book Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons, animator Bob Clampett is quoted as describing Buddy as " Bosko in whiteface ".

The white audience is then subjected to wearing shoe polish on their faces, while the African American actors sport whiteface and terrorize the people in blackface.

However, the production's most notable innovation was in the character of Bosola, which was played by Canada Lee in whiteface.

She glanced around the clearing, taking in the wagon and the load of supplies and trappings scattered over the ground, the two kids, the whiteface bull that was chewing its cud just within the far reaches of the firelight.

And they had almost everything they needed: land, a house, two whiteface bulls, three horses.

In the European whiteface makeup, the ears are painted red.

Classically the whiteface character instructs the auguste character to perform his bidding.

The contra-auguste plays the role of the mediator between the whiteface character and the auguste character.

He has a lower status than the whiteface but a higher status than the auguste.

He aspires to be more like the whiteface and often mimics everything the whiteface does to try to gain approval.

In October 2009, a talent-search skit on Australian TV's Hey Hey It's Saturday reunion show featured an Australian tribute group for Michael Jackson, the " Jackson Jive " in blackface, with the Michael Jackson character in whiteface.

Winfield would recall late in his career that as a young actor he had played one of the two leads in Of Mice and Men in local repertory, made up in whiteface, since a black actor playing it would have been unthinkable.

Also in the 19th century, Pierrot troupes arose, with all the performers in whiteface and baggy white costumes.

Later, some characters wore whiteface, and the British pantomime characters originally wore masks that they then removed for the transformation to the harlequinade.

Novices are allowed to wear white veils and whiteface make-up.

They wear wimples, habits, and robes of nuns, but accessorize them garishly with baubles, beads, and whiteface make-up.

Sister Irma Geddon of the Portland, Oregon-based Order of Benevolent Bliss offered her view of the efficacy of using nun's clothing and drag: " The lightness of everything, in addition to the whiteface and the nun's habits, are a mechanism to reach out to people.

The plot revolves around whiteface drag, as two African American FBI agents disguise themselves as white women.

They are also distinguished as the " sad clown " ( blanc ) and " happy clown " ( auguste ).

If for instance there had been a wire walker the reprise would involve two chairs with a piece of rope between and the clown trying to imitate the artiste by trying to walk between them with the resulting falls and cascades bringing laughter from the audience.

Other visual and aural cues are also taken from film noir, in ‘ Pierrot Le Fou ’ for instance, Spike battles an enraged homicidal clown across a fairground, accompanied by lighting and camera angles any film noir would be proud of.

" In this scene, Nanook and his family arrives in a kayak at the trading post and one family member after another emerge from a small kayak, akin to a clown car at the circus.

English Elizabethan clown Will Kempe dancing a jig from Norwich to London in 1600

* Violator, a demon from hell who takes the appearance of a balding, middle-aged clown, and an enemy of Spawn in the comic franchise by Todd McFarlane.

* Clownhouse, three mental patients escape and stalk a young boy home from the circus dressed in clown costumes.

* Odd Bob the Clown, an evil alien clown based on the legendary Pied Piper of Hamelin from Sarah Jane Adventures that feeds on children's fears ( in the episode The Day of the Clown ).

* Gamzee Makara, an alien character from the webcomic Homestuck that is based on Juggalos and general evil clown cliches.

* Swiss — Pic ( Richard Hirzel ): Pierrot clown famously associated, from 1980, with the German Circus Roncalli

When the Foundation comes to realize that The Mule was not foreseen in Seldon's plan, and there is no predicted way of defeating him, Toran and Bayta Darell, accompanied by Ebling Mis — the galaxy's current greatest psychologist — and a street clown named Magnifico ( whom they agree to protect, as his life is under threat from the Mule himself ) set out to find the Second Foundation, hoping they bring an end to the Mule's reign.

Krusty was created by cartoonist Matt Groening and partially inspired by Rusty Nails, a television clown from Groening's hometown of Portland, Oregon.

Hyman strongly opposed Krusty's wish to become a clown and make people laugh, believing that it would distract him from his religion, wanting the boy to go to yeshiva instead.

He started working as a clown full-time in 1931, and it was only after years of attempting to persuade the management that he was able to switch from a white face clown to the hobo clown that he had sketched ten years earlier while working at an art firm.

After the success of The Circus, Chaplin had originally wanted to make a film about a circus clown who goes blind and has to conceal his handicap from his young daughter by pretending that his inability to see were pratfalls.

The Aluzinnu (“ trickster ,” a jester, clown or buffoon ) text, extant in five fragments from the neo-Assyrian period concerns an individual, dābibu, ākil karṣi, “ character assassin ,” who made a living entertaining others with parodies, mimicry, and scatological songs.

The clown and recent successful attempts from residents to save it from demolition have been featured in the pages of Weird NJ magazine, on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and in the Kevin Smith-directed film Clerks II.

The scene where Jack Lemmon and James Garner are chased from a fast food restaurant parking lot in a car and a giant clown sign crashes through their windshield was filmed at the former Long John Silver's, now a CelluarSales. com Verizon wireless franchise location, on Russ Avenue in Waynesville.

After overhearing a fortune teller inform Merna that she sees " love and marriage with a dark, handsome man who is near you now ", the overjoyed Tramp buys a ring from another clown.