“The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?”
Source: Nights at the Circus
“The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?”
Source: Nights at the Circus
“The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.”
Die Verschwörung des Fiesco (The Conspiracy of Fiesco), Act I, sc. vii (1783)
"Be A Clown" (written in 1946)
The Pirate (1948)
Pt. 2, ch. 22
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Context: "I think I'll be a clown when I get grown," said Dill. "Yes, sir, a clown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off."
"You got it backwards, Dill," said Jem. "Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them."
"Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks."
AF, 73; p. 161
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour' (1992/2009)
Entertainment Weekly writer Frank Lovece official site: Web Exclusives — Bob Kane interview http://franklovece.com/webexclusives.html (1994-05-17)