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12. Audience question: what type of clown are you?
13. Onionhead: I'm a tramp clown.
14. Onionhead: I have 8 or 9 different characters.
15. Oniong and Jeff demonstrate on exaggerated slap.
16. Audience members are instructed on making a "slap" sound effect by clapping their hands, and how to move their heads back to simulate being slapped.
17. Onionhead gives clown photos to audience members.
18. Onionhead: My wife is a contortionist w/ Cirque du Soleil, plays a ragdoll character. Jeff says ragdoll is a classic Russian Act.
19. Photo of Onionhead as a knife-thrower. Onionhead explains the knife thrower act, with yelling sound effect and exaggerated motions.
20. Jeff: a clown will always watch for other acts that work well so the clown can parody that act. Jeff gives example of an aerial hoop act that a clown parodied with a hula hoop
21. Onionhead: in black neighborhood as a youth, older guys dressed fine. So he created a character, the "Clown Player," dressed in white suit, top hat, looking for a woman to cook and clean. He demonstrates carrying a red flower prop, that he gives to an audience member (a woman).
22. Audience question: Do all your costumes have something in common?
23. Onionhead: costume is consistent with the character I'm playing.
24. Onionhead: Almost everything I do is inspired by people I saw or knew in my youth.
25. Audience member describes Moms Mabley, then Onionhead does a little Moms Mabley routine
26. Jeff: It's uncommon for clowns to use thing from their youth. More often, they use acts they saw in the circus as inspiration.
27. Onionhead demonstrates some magic with a handkerchief. Then he does some tricks with a rope, enlisting an audience member's help. Then he does a trick with 2 cups and some water. Makes the H2O disappear. Jeff tries the water trick. Onionhead says "you must believe it." Jeff ends up dumping the water on Onionhead's head.
28. Jeff: How long has Onionhead been a clown - since 1985
He started @ age 46.
29. Audience question: what is direction of circus - will it be lost?
30. Onionhead - we lost a couple circuses "If you destroy every circus on the face of the earth - The earth itself will create another circus."
31. Audience question: What was your 1st costume? And did you make any mistakes?
32. Onionhead- Every mistake you make you learn from. First costume he bought. But he became a clown because he promised his daughter when she was 4 that she'd have a birthday party clown