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Silly Billy was a type of clown common at fairs in England during the 19th century. They were also common in London as street entertainers , along with the similar clown, Billy Barlow. [ 1 ] The act included playing the part of a fool or idiot, impersonating a child and singing comic songs . [ 2 ]
Capturing the Friedmans is a 2003 HBO documentary film directed by Andrew Jarecki. It focuses on the 1980s investigation of Arnold and Jesse Friedman for child molestation. The film premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival where it received critical acclaim as well as the Grand Jury Prize: Documentary.
Kaye is the foremost children's magician in the United States, author of numerous books including Seriously Silly [ 5] and Super-Sized Silly, [ 6] a columnist in both Magic (American magazine) [ 7] and Genii magazine, [ 8] and creator of numerous marketed tricks: "Peek-a-Boo Bunny," "Yes, No, Maybe So," "Princess in a Pickle," among others.
Rajoo – circus clown and the central character in Raj Kapoor's film Mera Naam Joker; Rollo the Clown – played by William (Billy) Wayne, the "good-guy" clown in the Adventures of Superman episode titled "The Clown Who Cried". Rollo the Clown – from the 1991 film The Little Engine That Could, based on the children's book of the same name.
The festival’s final day, called “the day the music died” by the San Francisco Examiner and “Apocalypse Woodstock” by MTV News, appeared to suffer from similar issues as its chaotic 1994 ...
December 8, 1984. ( 1984-12-08) Captain Kangaroo is an American children's television series that aired weekday mornings on the American television network CBS for 29 years, from 1955 to 1984, making it the longest-running nationally broadcast children's television program of its day. [ 2][ 3] In 1986, the American Program Service (now American ...
The heyoka ( heyókȟa, also spelled "haokah," "heyokha") is a kind of sacred clown in the culture of the Sioux ( Lakota and Dakota people) of the Great Plains of North America. The heyoka is a contrarian, jester, and satirist, who speaks, moves and reacts in an opposite fashion to the people around them. Only those having visions of the ...
Silly Songs with Larry is a regular feature segment in Big Idea 's cartoon series VeggieTales. Often secular, they generally consist of Larry the Cucumber singing a humorous novelty song either alone or with some of the other Veggie characters. Occasionally, another character, like Mr. Lunt, Bob the Tomato, Junior Asparagus, Laura Carrot ...