C/D: Shakes the Clown

*beats mime*

'Freaks' and 'Killer Klowns from Outer Space' just off the top of my head.

haha - I've absorbed this into my daily vocab so much I forgot I got it from this movie

"uh, yeah, you were talking about watergate."

or something like that.

the bar conversation w/ adam sandler-

"you never talk to girls"
"sure I talk to lots of girls"
"like who, name one?"
"my mom"
"she doesn't count"
"she's a nice lady..."

and my favorite part of the movie?

"Body of Binky..."

from imdb:

Shakes the Clown: Hey, hey, kid, what are you doing?
Kid: I had to go to the bathroom.
Shakes the Clown: On my head?
Kid: Hey this is my bathroom not your bedroom you big drunken mess.

Dink: I asked her what time it was, she told me it was 7:30.
Stenchy: Oh, that's the cornerstone of a lasting relationship, what time it is?
Dink: Yes, yes. Because, first I asked her what time it is, right? Tomorrow I get to ask her the date, the day after that she's all over me. That's how it works, you play it slow.

Owen Cheese: You clowns are on dope!
Binky the Clown: You didn't see nothing old man. We're just five happy party clowns, sitting down to a plate of beef. White- powdery- beef.

Shakes the Clown: [to mimes] You silent motherfuckers!

HoHo the Clown: Oh, yeah? Well, the only show YOU could ever star in would be a show called the... Not... Funny... DIARRHEA CLUB!

Judy: LEAVE ME ALONE, MILKMAN SCUM!

Female Clown Barfly: As soon as that camera is off, he gonna fuck that little dog.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0492492/

this movie is a way better portrait/ode to the standup comedy world than Funny People, that's for sure

i clowncur

this is alltime classic five-star comedy for me

They've been showing this at a bar I frequent and it's weirdly compelling.

http://img466.imageshack.us/img466/374/shakes040ti.jpg

Shakey, clowns talk a lot less onstage than standups.

what does that have to do with anything

this movie is a way better portrait/ode to the standup comedy world than Funny People

See, they're NOT STANDUPS.

I forgot Bob Dylan was in this.

See, they're NOT STANDUPS.

um are you not familiar with allegorical setups? have you even seen this movie? it is totally about standup comedy/comics.

like, yr a film critic right? do you see how there might be significant parallels between standup comics and drunken, bitter, mysanthropic men dressing up in ridiculous outfits in order to entertain morons and children?

I took the clowns as a metaphor for clowns.

The average standup hasn't dressed funny since vaudeville died.

this seems like as good a place as any to mention that "World's Greatest Dad" (directed by bobcat, starring robin williams) is, against all possible odds, a really good movie.

it's OK, needed to be even darker.

I took the clowns as a metaphor for clowns.

*smh

did the part about fighting over who gets a TV show remind you of anything that was happening in standup comedy in the 80s/90s, or did you think that was what really happened behind the scenes of Howdy Doody

I'm not sure what hated minority mimes were supposed to be. Prop comics?

Shakey I haven't seen it in at least ten years, but perhaps you've overthought this.

a film populated by standup comics behaving in ways standup comics are notorious for, with motivations and problems similar to standup comics - I dunno I thought it was pretty obvious

Shakey's right, though. I remember reading somewhere that it was explicitly about comics (though it could have been on wikipedia).

I do really want to see World's Greatest Dad. Shakes is a pretty great little dumb funny movie, and I genuinely like Sleeping Dogs Lie a lot. Goldthwait's got some talent.

It makes sense that Shakes would be about comics, since pretty much everyone involved was a comic.

someone tried to convince me that world's greatest dad was a more biting redbox social satire than step brothers but there is no way bobcat goldthwait wrote a better line than "this is a house of learned doctors"

i could probably write a three page essay on the feminist comedy of adam mckay but i don't think it would get a good grade.

Shakey's right, though. I remember reading somewhere that it was explicitly about comics

^^thought i heard this, too. anyway, big fan. also got a reasonable amount of enjoyment from "world's greatest dad"

"do you see how there might be significant parallels between standup comics and drunken, bitter, mysanthropic men dressing up in ridiculous outfits in order to entertain morons and children?"

No stand-ups I ever choose to listen to dress up in ridiculous outfits to entertain children. Morons maybe, not children.

I know a comedy writer who went to clown college in Paris.

Actually I don't think I've seen Shakes since the week it opened theatrically - '92?

was there never a thread for World's Greatest Dad?

dunno.

This kind of amazed me when I saw it in Film Comment the other day:

http://www.spinner.com/2010/06/30/bobcat-goldthwait-kinks-schoolboys-in-disgrace-movie/