Speaking of horrifying ads…
I stumbled across this picture in conjunction with a show these clowns are doing in Boston. I was instantly terrified.
We can all agree, I’m sure, that clowns are evil creatures in league with the devil. This “Bucky” fellow looks particularly malevolent. The slogan “You will laugh until it hurts!” sounds like a vicious threat.
Then there’s this description of the show, which moves me from finding them creepy to being actively hateful toward them:
Chris & Gina Allison a.k.a. Bucky & GiGi aren’t just any clowns. These two comedians combine circus skills, physical comedy, mime, and comedy magic to create a memorable show that will leave children from 3 to 103 laughing out loud. Bucky & GiGi’s travels have taken them around the world, most recently to Liuzhou, China for their International Clown Festival.
Bucky’s goofy and lovable character is a bit of Jerry Lewis and Jim Carey mixed together, while GiGi’s school marm persona is just what Bucky needs to keep him in line…or at least try.
These two funsters will amaze and amuse both young and old with their comedic antics combined with magic and juggling.
I have never seen a 103-year-old child, and I do not wish to! I also do not wish to see the antics of anyone who can be accurately described as a “funster”! Why do we as a society continue to tolerate this?
January 3rd, 2008 at 6:55 pm
“…Bucky & GiGi aren’t just any clowns. These two comedians combine circus skills, physical comedy, mime, and comedy magic to create a memorable show…”
Isn’t that what clowns do?
January 3rd, 2008 at 8:04 pm
I’m pretty sure I’m gonna have nightmares tonight. Thanks, Eric.
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:10 pm
This is an invaluable piece of intelligence. There’s an “International Clown Festival”? Why do we have soldiers in Iraq when the real threat to democracy is much further east?
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:18 pm
I…well…I…there is no god.
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Was this ad also approved by 9iu11ani?
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:47 pm
The color scheme, the false idea of what would interest an actual human, and freakish Bucky make the bile rise in my throat. If it is, in fact, the throat that has bile.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:29 am
So, where do ya’ suppose the name “Bucky” comes from?
January 4th, 2008 at 5:46 am
AAAAGH! Can’t sleep, clowns will eat me! Can’t sleep , clowns will eat me! **faints**
January 4th, 2008 at 7:43 am
What parent would look at that and think “Ohhh funsters! Just what my kid needs.”
Anyone else think the school marm thing feels a tad inappropriate here?
January 4th, 2008 at 10:49 am
I can’t understand who actually LIKES clowns. Some people like clowns so much they choose to BE one!
Do they just… do they just hate people? Would they embrace Nazism if it still existed, but instead are forced to inflict pain through clownism?
January 4th, 2008 at 11:31 am
9iu11ani ! cornedbeef, not only are you part of a tasty breakfast food, but you are also brilliant!
January 4th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
No, this is a trick. Listen to the description of “comedy” being derived from a stooge/comic foil double act. Bucky & GiGi is, in fact, a thinly disguised attempt to bring back vaudeville.
Also, International Clown Festival? That sounds like fodder for a Stephen King novel.
January 6th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
I am a tasty snack but unfortunately the credit for billiance goes to superdeadlyhamattack of the prior blog entry.
January 7th, 2008 at 10:56 am
International Clown Festival = Seventh Level of Hell