Does anyone actually like clowns?

Archeron

I've always had this inbuilt reluctance to be anywhere near clowns. I always feel that their overly made-up faces hide a sinister lurking evil that is waiting to pounce on the innocent at any moment and eat them alive. I suppose Stephen Kings "IT" didnt do much to help with that.

I've been learning recently that I'm not alone in my dislike/fear of all things clown based as many colleagues have told me that they have a severe dislike of these made up monsters too. This news report from Sky News appears to strenghten some of these fears.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1252574,00.html

"Amos told reporters, at first I thought the clown was mucking about. But I went down hard on the ground and I saw him balling his fists and growling at me from behind his smile"

Chilling stuff.

So, do you like clowns, or do you think they should all be fired out of a cannon into the sun?

c - 13

his name is Dr. Rockso, He's a rock and roll clown, he does cocaine ...... thats all we know

Dr. Rockso

Anyway, in answer to your question.

Clowns dont bother me in the least, I also dont find them funny in the least.

Interesting point however mentioning "IT" because about 3-4 friends of mine hate clowns too and they all blame the same film

Crucifix

I dislike clowns. I'd tend towards the cannon into the sun scenario, but I feel even old Helios doesn't deserve it.

Faith

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, NO!

I've been scared of clowns ever since I can remember. I remember being at a friends birthday party when I was about 5, and there was a clown there. I spent the whole party hiding in the kitchen behind my friends mum, while the evil clown tried to entice me out with fizzy drinks and face paint.

I won't go to the circus because I'm scared of clowns.

humbert

Evil soulless creatures!

Futureman

OP - where's the option to NOT like clowns but you're not afraid of them? I hate clowns, but it's only because they are sh*t and not funny - I'm not "afraid" of them. Where's that option? Could you not have just left it at "yes" or "No", and let people specifiy their own reasons instead of you being presumptuous?

Dyr

apparently, when i was a toddler a clown came up to me at a circus and i went into hysterics. Had to be taken out of the big top.

Cant say they really bother me either way these days, so meh

/repress

Kojak

Never liked clowns - I always thought there was something deeply disturbing about a grown man who wanted to dress up like Ronald McDonald

greine

Don't like them either. I remember in school there was a phase to have a pierrot clown (miserable clown, black and white with a tear running down his face) on almost everyone's folder or copybook, I probably had no choice but to tolerate them, they were everywhere! Then IT (the movie) came out, reaffirmed my perfectly rational dislike to them, they are very sinister.:eek:

skywalker

Archeron wrote:

I suppose Stephen Kings "IT" didn't do much to help with that.

I can 100% relate to what your saying about that film. I don't have a problem with clowns in general but that was the scariest film I remember from my childhood. I got it on dvd a few years back and its just all about Tim Curry's facial expressions in that suit. He can still make me shiver watching it.


Look hes all fluffy and friendly really. :eek:

Unpossible

I loved clowns as a kid, but after a while I started to feel sorry for them. I don't know why, they must love their job, but for some reason I have it in my head of a lonely middle aged man who can't do anything else in the circus and is not treated with much respect (I mean who does respect clowns?)

humanji

You can't spend your life being laughed at and not have severe mental problems. I should know! And so should I!

I got it on dvd a few years back and its just all about Tim Curry's facial expressions in that suit. He can still make me shiver watching it.

Wow, didn't actually know that was Tim Curry. Strange how he's scaryier as a clown than as a sinister transvestite!

dr.bollocko

When I was v. young I got into that really crappy ghost train ride down in Tramore. For some reason, as well as the plastic witches, and all the other accoutrements looking like a cash and carry at hallowe'en, this time they had some person running from carriage to carriage dressed as a clown scaring people. He sat down next to me and tried to tickle me so I punched him in the face. Perverted little paintface ****er deserved it.

phantom_lord

lol, I never really liked clowns tbh or saw the entertainment value of them, although it was never something I ever discussed with anyone, or considered making a thread on...

TerrorFirmer

Clowns don't scare me in the slightest and never did but as entertainers I never found them....entertaining.

Haven't a Clue

HavoK wrote:

Clowns don't scare me in the slightest and never did but as entertainers I never found them....entertaining.

Ditto.

I've never met someone who found them entertaining either. Then again, I never met someone who thought they were scary either.

Salmon

Heard a very scary story about clowns, its a little long but worth it! I heard of a girl who was babysitting for a couple on night and she put the kid down to sleep. After about 20 mins the kid started crying so she picked it up and settled it back down to sleep. It woke up crying again and this happened about three times or so. After a while the parents rang the girl to see if everything was ok. The girl said that it was but that the kid kept waking up. The girl then told the parents that she thought it was the life sized clown sitting on a beanbag in the room was spooking the kid out. The father told the girl to get the child and bring it to the bathroom and lock herself in to the bathroom that they would be home straight away. After hanging up the father rang the guards and the went to the house and arrested a romanian man dressed as a clown in the kids room.

Seemingly this is a true storey and it absolutely put the sh1ts up me, has anyone else heard this story or do they know any more details about it?

c - 13

Only another urban legend according to snopes

Ive heard about three or four different versions of the story myself in thest couple of years.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

I know quite a few people scared of clowns... In laymans terms they are wussies!

d-redser

Salmon wrote:

Heard a very scary story about clowns, its a little long but worth it! I heard of a girl who was babysitting for a couple on night and she put the kid down to sleep. After about 20 mins the kid started crying so she picked it up and settled it back down to sleep. It woke up crying again and this happened about three times or so. After a while the parents rang the girl to see if everything was ok. The girl said that it was but that the kid kept waking up. The girl then told the parents that she thought it was the life sized clown sitting on a beanbag in the room was spooking the kid out. The father told the girl to get the child and bring it to the bathroom and lock herself in to the bathroom that they would be home straight away. After hanging up the father rang the guards and the went to the house and arrested a romanian man dressed as a clown in the kids room.

Seemingly this is a true storey and it absolutely put the sh1ts up me, has anyone else heard this story or do they know any more details about it?

:eek: Just got a severe dose of the shivers there... That has to be my worst nightmare!

I remember watching IT wen I was 14. My parents were away for the night and my older sister sneaked off to the local. I was in the front room and it was pitch black outside but a scorcher of a day so I had the window open... Anyway the movie finished (I think after around 4.5 hours of it!) and I was seriously traumatised! I didnt have the courage to get off the couch and next minute balloons started flying past the window. :eek:

I nearly shat myself that night and the neighbours who were having a party that night heard my screams over their music!

Between Pennywise and that poxy clown from Poltergeist (which my sister had the exact same in our bedroom - needless to say I f*cked it out the window after wathcing that film!) I am terrifed of clowns.

Dirk Gently

I'm feeling very unloved after reading this thread

Degsy

Dressing up as a clown is a license to commit unspeakable acts in the name of "comedy"..setting fire to people's newspapers,hitting them with ladders and custard pies in the face.Then there's the truly EVIL clowns,paedophiles,murderers and other deviants who use thier clownlyness to get close to victims..*shiver*

BlitzKrieg

I suppose Stephen Kings "IT" didn't do much to help with that.

I'm convinced that film has everything to do with it.

I find anyone between the ages of 19-27 have some fear/hatred of clowns...this coincides with sky one's (and later RTE/BBC) first time screening of the IT in Ireland/UK.

I am a firm believer that children all across ireland who could watched the 1st part of It on that fateful night and the next day going to school they were all scared of clowns.

its a strong mark of our generation.

BlitzKrieg

double post oops


http://youtube.com/watch?v=5ZVq2Gm_Zjk

cornbb

They don't like clowns in Colombia, evidently

BBC News wrote:

Colombia clowns killed on stage

Two circus clowns have been shot dead during a performance in the eastern Colombian city of Cucuta, police say.

The attacker jumped into the arena and fired before fleeing, police chief Jose Humberto Henao told Efe news agency.

Local reports say the audience of about 20 people, mostly children, thought the shooting was part of the show before realising both men had been killed.

Last year, a prominent circus clown, known as Pepe, was also shot dead by a unknown assailant in Cucuta.

The motive for the latest killing remains unclear, police said. Local media reports suggest two attackers may have been involved.

One clown was shot in the head as he performed on stage, about an hour into the Circo del Sol's evening show.

The second, named as 18-year-old Franklin Leal, from Cucuta, was then shot as he stood by the ticket booth, according to the newspaper La Opinion.

The travelling circus had set up in a suburb of Cucuta, capital of Norte de Santander province near the Venezuelan border, about 10 days earlier, the paper says.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6382919.stm

Terry

A clown kicked me up the arse when he caught me sneaking into a circus when I was 11 or 12. I've hated them ever since. two faced bastards.

Ruu_Old

Can't sleep clowns will eat me!

biko

To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kinda scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus and a clown killed my dad.

Dave!

Stephen King ruined clowns for me.

Rb

They don't bother me, I don't find them particularly entertaining but they certainly don't frighten me nor make me hate them.

Black Swan

All clowns are not the same. So let's not have clown discrimination. For example, Tony Blair is a clown. What he does is pretty silly. George W. Bush is also a clown. What he does is pretty stupid and scarey.

panda100

BlitzKrieg wrote:

double post oops


http://youtube.com/watch?v=5ZVq2Gm_Zjk

Even watching that sends shivers down my spine. I was never a circus kid...elephants,lions,clowns...there all friggin scary. Funfairs were more my style.

admiralofthefleet

i hate them, the evil bastards scare me stiff

Rb

panda100 wrote:

Funfairs were more my style.

Enjoy a good ride, eh?

DonkeyStyle \o/

I'd like to see Pennywise and Ronald McDonald battle it out.
Clown bloodsports for teh win!

ArthurDent

Phew, not the only one that hates the souless creepy gits.:o

monkeyfudge

Pennywise was a lightweight compared to these guys:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_BPcDOjJCc

swingking

this will give people the shakes

clowns are scary

especially the clown in the Simpsons, you know, the one who robs the quick'e'mart

Faith

skywalker wrote:

I can 100% relate to what your saying about that film. I don't have a problem with clowns in general but that was the scariest film I remember from my childhood. I got it on dvd a few years back and its just all about Tim Curry's facial expressions in that suit. He can still make me shiver watching it.


Look hes all fluffy and friendly really. :eek:

DUDE! I needed a warning that the picture was going to move! I nearly had a heart attack. All the fear from years of watching IT repeatedly came flooding back to me .

I bought it on DVD myself last October and, as an adult, it's not scary. I mean, Pennywise is really creepy, but the movie itself is laughable - and really long!

free2fly

I don't find clowns creepy. Well, Pennywise was creepy. But they don't scare me. The only clowns that I ever found to be funny and entertaining were the ones from Cirque du Soliel.

Terry

swingking wrote:

this will give people the shakes

clowns are scary

especially the clown in the Simpsons, you know, the one who robs the quick'e'mart

Sideshow Cecil?

Kinetic^

No and the sooner the better we get them out of the Dail the better!!!

Rb

Terry wrote:

Sideshow Cecil?

Was that not Sideshow Bob who robbed the store pretending to be Krusty, no?

dahooligan

I'm sure a clown's ma must like him.. no?

Terry

rb_ie wrote:

Was that not Sideshow Bob who robbed the store pretending to be Krusty, no?

It certainly was.
I just wanted to see how long it would be before someone corrected me.

Sideshow Cecil was in the episode "Brother from another series".

Rb

Kenny 5 wrote:

No and the sooner the better we get them out of the Dail the better!!!

Lol, wait 'til NetWhizKid reads that, he'll ruin his pants.

Terry wrote:

It certainly was.
I just wanted to see how long it would be before someone corrected me.

Ah, I should have known something was up, have yet to see you make a wrong reference to Furturama/Simpsons/etc tbh!

Terry

Maris?

Zonko

Was anyone else reminded of this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TluO73DV8Y

FoxyChild

Clowns scare the crap out of me!! I just hate everything about them, but worst of all their made up smile, it's just soooo creepy!

skywalker

Faith wrote:

DUDE! I needed a warning that the picture was going to move! I nearly had a heart attack. All the fear from years of watching IT repeatedly came flooding back to me .

I bought it on DVD myself last October and, as an adult, it's not scary. I mean, Pennywise is really creepy, but the movie itself is laughable - and really long!

Sorry I was being mean, couldnt resist:o . I actually went out and bought the book too around the same time to see if it was worse than the movie. Its roughly the same because you have the image of Tim Curry as pennywise all the way through.

All I can say it thank god they changed the ending that was in the book though :eek: Anyone who's read it will know what I mean.

humanji

Zonko wrote:

Was anyone else reminded of this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TluO73DV8Y

This whole thread just has me thinking of this!