When I teach workshops for clowns I’m usually surprised how little they know about physical comedy. Same thing goes for what I see at clown festivals, and I’m talking about excellent and experienced clowns. I’m not saying that all clowns should have to do physical comedy, but when I see one capable of mining the old skills of the silent film comedian, I get excited.

My book Clowns has long been out of print, but you can borrow it for two weeks at a time from the Internet Archive. More information is available here.
Visual and verbal humor for the cognitively and artistically curious! Available here.
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—Bill Irwin