Tag: Samuel Beckett
Holidays have become an excuse for me to share a sampling of physical comedy morsels with you. They’re each too small to merit their own blog post, but delicious and nutritious nonetheless. If you like these, make sure you didn’t miss your…
If you excitedly ripped open your physical comedy Christmas stocking, if you quickly devoured your physical comedy Valentine’s Day chocolates, if you got all giddy over this spring’s Premio de Primavera, then you’ll be hopping like crazy over the dozen goodies the Easter Bunny just brought you. One hundred percent recycled from my private collection and from links that came by way of such usual suspects as Drew Richardson, Lee Faulkner, Greg DeSanto, and no doubt other folks who I am forgetting. As usual, click on any image to enlarge.
Pop Quiz: Name the famous Nobel-Prize winning author who wrote the following in his most celebrated work:
David Carlyon is an old friend and quite the Renaissance man. A bio that includes fighting forest fires, serving as an MP in the Army, and selling beer at Philadelphia’s Vet stadium grabs your attention even before you get to the three years as a clown with Ringling Brothers and the Ph.D. from Northwestern University. David has been a professional clown, actor, director, and both a creative and scholarly writer, and is perhaps best known for his definitive biography of Dan Rice, the great 19th-century American clown: Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You’ve Never Heard Of.
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My first book (1976)
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.
My second book (2015)
Visual and verbal humor for the cognitively and artistically curious! Available here.
“A book to treasure!”
—Bill Irwin