John: It's camp!
[Homer stares nonplussed]
The tragically ludicrous? The ludicrously tragic?
Homer: Oh, yeah. Like when a clown dies.

The Onanist:

Uhhh, that's different.

Well of course he won, his competition wasn't the ideal.

I mean, Stabby the homocidal clown, and Puckety-puke and Strawbody the bulimic/anorexic duo aren't really funny. And don't get me started with Mr. Happy-Rape-Time.

Fellow congregants! Does anyone in the fellowship have a Pennywise? Can't a brotha get a Pennywise?

"Who wants to go to Arby's?"

bronze? pshaw.

but was it giant?

"I hope I die clowning. I just hope there are no kids around when it happens."

no kids allowed in the death house, pal.

Empty Signal Gray: "Who wants to go to Arby's?"

I'm Dr. Rockzo, the rock and roll clown. I do cocaine.

Pelosi!?!?

I knew that award was coming their way but I really had no idea how fantestical it really is.

Did anyone else read that as "I hope I die drowning?"

DoWhatNowToWhat: Pelosi!?!?

I knew that award was coming their way but I really had no idea how fantestical it really is.


Dude. Put down the hash, and step away from the computer.

skinink----just got some laughs over that episode, thanks

I am declaring possible shenanigans. Other than references to this story and a twenty seven foot bronze clown shoe affiliated with Cirque Du Soleil, I can find no reference to this award. If you google the other people who are suppose to have received the award, you find no results that don't trace back to this story.

E.g.: Ronald McDonald (new window)

Bozo (new window)

It seems quite odd that this award is the "highest honor" of the profession, but has no references to it on the internet that are more than a couple days old.

Wow, that's tops, I mean where do you go from here?

I hate clowns. To me, I find it a clear indicator that a person who desires to hide behind such a bizarre visage is insane.

DIAF clowns.

Forced Perspective: Dude. Put down the hash, and step away from the computer.

Oh they haven't made it to 10% already?

/then I retract my earlier statement

FTA:Other inductees include Red Skelton and Bob "Captain Kangaroo" Keeshan.

What no Bozo?

Also FTA:Klauenberg, who was given the award last week at an industry convention in Chicago

The convention room was three feet by three feet and there was a thousand clowns in there....Convention Clown room.

This guy does corporate retreats?

If I get dragooned into a retreat and this guy appears, I hope there's a pistol handy.

I just hope there are no kids around when it happens.

Because being around a clown is scary enough.

My mother-in-law is a clown so I'm getting a real kick out of some of these comments.

poopalacarte: I hear that the Cement Clown Shoe award is less desirable.

Strange... I hear everyone is dying to get their hands on them.

Is he getting stalked now by some guy in Vegas?

Was his name George Bush?

"I hope I die clowning," he said. "I just hope there are no kids around when it happens."

I think we all have the same wish.
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Aaaand...

Can I just be the first to say that I farking hate clowns?

If he does die clowning, let's hope he isn't wearing a peanut costume, and meets an elephant. /Not obscure.

"I've always, always wanted to be kill a clown ever since I was 6 years old," he said

F4YA

I wonder what JeffK has to say about that award...

Your friend's a farking clown shoe, you know that?

He's from Ogden? That's funny. I was a counsellor for a week of children's clown camp once (not of my own free will, let it be known), and the end of the week involved going to Ogden's summer festival in a tiny park down by the railroad tracks. It mostly involved the twelve year old campers wandering up to four year olds and scaring the crap out of them. Twelve year olds pretending to be clowns are scarier than adults.

Our kids were the only clowns in attendence. You would think a master clowner would be out at an event like that.

I hope I die clowning. I just hope there are no kids around when it happens.

I hope he dies because his insides are filled with CANDY!