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--Kim: "I owe my career to Q-Tips!" Out of
Pickle Family Circus Clowns 
Three clown types
1) August face
2) White face-white accents around eyes & mouth
3) Character clown 
Bill Irwin
Jeff Joyce (Mr. Small) Character clown
Sal Francisco
Larry Buzzoni
Frattolni Clowns:
1) [[Elegante?]]
2)
3)  August
-white face [[?]] 5 somewhere between #1 & #3 above
Hard for one clown to steal another clown's face
Faces have different lines!
Makeup has to work in a big arena
Yellow & green are colors that most professional clowns avoid
Shoes are first tipoff to a professional clown Also, 2) quality of costume & 3) how makeup is done
Fr America, white face clown was the boss; august was second banana, and character clown could go either way
Bozo the Clown began as a drawing. Both upper & lower lip were red. But Ringling Bros. clowns had lips of two different colors. Chicago Bozo got a white lower lip instead of pure red.
Don't want yellow around eyes, and very little black
Blue sometimes substituted for black
Clowning has been going on for 5000 years. Hatshepsut of Egypt made reference to clowns, who were also priests.