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22 February 2009

Man does this depress me. [More:]So, I am sitting here, thinking about the act I want to do someday. I've always had this idea about an obnoxious drunken evil clown, and it comes back to me this evening and I start to flesh it out.

He'd be drunk and stumbling, reeking of urine, vomit encrusted on the front of colourful pantaloons, brazenly feeling up women in the street... with sleight-of-hand self-harm sort of horrifying tricks, stuff like my arm getting caught in a wood chipper, dangerous pratfalls... the anti-clown, making children run screaming in terror, fathers gathering their teenage daughters and holding them tightly out of harm's way.

Really ugly, repulsive stuff, tripping and bloodying my face, soaked in cheap gin, getting arrested for public diusturbance... surely the Internet would love this, eat it up.

"Fucko the Clown"... yeah, that's the ticket!

So I google "fucko the clown"... And there is some bastard already doing more or less exactly what I had in mind.
Whenever people start talking about evil clowns and how clowns aren't funny but scary, one of my friends always points out that that was exactly their historic function in society. A clown wasn't supposed to be funny, but a total object of derision, gross, stupid, foolish, and basically an embodiment of everything normal, polite society wasn't. Somehow (maybe it was Bozo?) we got the idea that they were supposed to be friendly and harmlessly silly, but that really wasn't the origin of 'clown.'
posted by Miko 22 February | 16:44
More here. Nothing new under the sun, I guess :(
posted by Meatbomb 22 February | 16:51
Yeah, but can you do it better than him? That's the key. Chances are most people will never have an original idea in their life. It's execution that counts.
posted by chrismear 22 February | 17:06
You'll always be Meatbomb the evil clown to me.

Somehow that doesn't sound like a nice thing to say.
posted by jouke 22 February | 17:52
There used to be an anti-clown in Chicago called "Shitupon the Clown" who specialized in funerals and divorces. He doesn't seem to exist anymore. The name is yours, Shitupon.

But seriously, Meatbomb is a pretty cool clown name itself.
posted by chillmost 22 February | 18:00
You'll always be Meatbomb the evil clown to me.



We're a very sentimental bunch here. ;)
posted by jason's_planet 22 February | 18:45
So I google "fucko the clown"... And there is some bastard already doing more or less exactly what I had in mind.


This is the internet. Not only is someone already doing it, someone else has started a pron site for it.
posted by pompomtom 22 February | 18:48
I gotta agree with the above. Meatbomb the Clown establishes a distinct identity without limitations.
posted by Ardiril 22 February | 19:14
Yabbut Fucko isn't even the first anti-clown (or evil clown). I mean, you've got everything from The Joker to Krusty to Bill Murray in Quick Change or Judge Reinhold in Ruthless People or even the non-human clown/toy of the Child's Play series.

It's obviously a rich motherlode of creepy comedy, so feel free, just don't think you're the first!
posted by stilicho 23 February | 00:13
If you're looking for a clown role-model, you must watch Shakes the Clown.
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