Overview: Combines personal memoir, scholarship, and professional experience.Highlights the craft of comedy performance with an audience.Focuses on the work of a professional circus clown in close interaction w.2017 Freedley Award Finalist, Theatre Library Association..2016 Best Circus Book of the Year, Stuart Thayer Prize, Circus Historical Society..The 1960s American hippie-clown boom fostered many creative impulses, including neo-vaudeville and Ringling‘s Clown College. However, the origin of that impulse, clowning with a circus, has largely gone unexamined. David Carlyon, through an autoet
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