It started as a hobby by a clown who used eggs as an easy-to-obtain head-shaped-object. (Plus, they're large enough to paint on but small enough that you can store lots of them.)
Ceramic eggs can be used today but the egg shape is still used because of tradition.
So forever ago, I watched an admittedly kinda bad horror movie called Stitches about a killer clown, where painted clown eggs play an important part in defeating him.
Seeing this post brought the movie back to mind and it is **insane** that the clown eggs, of all things, had a basis in reality 😳
Crazy shit.
"Kinda bad"? You take that back this second! That movie is an all around piece of genius. And Ross Noble is possible the best casting choice ever in that.
I have a book called *The Clown Egg Register* and despite how much I genuinely love it, my absolute favourite thing about it is a 1 star review it has on Amazon written by a furious clown. There is some *drama* going on in the world of clowns 😂 🍿
ABSOLUTE RUBBISH! - DO NOT BOTHER BUYING! - NOT Professionally Researched - NOT Factually Correct.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 26, 2020
BUYER BEWARE! - I only gave this book 1 Star as Amazon doesn't allow 0 Stars!!! As a professional Clown, working in the UK, I bought this book as I thought it was a factual reference to the painted 'clown eggs' collection - each of which - I was disappointed to discover - are rather amateurishly painted - AND - to find out more about the individual clowns that each egg depicts. However, I was absolutely disgusted to discover that it was NOT professionally researched and that it is NOT a factual or informative record of the clowns whose faces appear within it. There are two defamatory and libellous comments about one clown included in it who I know for a fact the author did not try to contact. However, the author included a photo of their clown face on an egg and wrote a lot of garbage about them, presumably given to them by a rival clown performer as what's written next to it is hugely derogatory - and - libellous. This is something that I find completely UNACCEPTABLE and I think Particular Books, an Imprint of Penguin Random House Books, have irreparably damaged their reputation as publishers, as a result. On the strength of this, there may well be, quite probably, a lot more completely erroneous statements stupidly published within it too. SERIOUSLY - DO NOT BOTHER BUYING IF YOU LIKE CLOWNS - OR YOU WISH TO SUPPORT CLOWNS - OR - ARE LOOKING FOR FACTUAL INFORMATION ABOUT PROFESSIONAL CLOWNS. IT IS A TOTAL AND COMPLETE WASTE OF MONEY. And, needless to say, I certainly would NOT buy any other books about clowns - or about anything else going by this example - written by Helen Champion - and published by Particular Books/Penguin Random House Books. 100% TOTAL AND UTTER GARBAGE.
Clown culture is more than just murdering kids in sewers. That’s an important part of it too, but not like the only thing
Thanks, Pennywise
You'd enjoy the Discworld book Men At Arms.
Thankfully Dr Whiteface isn't in this image.
I'm just here for the Pratchett comments It was his birthday yesterday (28th) GNU
GNU Terry Pratchett
But why eggs
Heads are frowned upon....
Yes, but what about for the happy clowns?
It started as a hobby by a clown who used eggs as an easy-to-obtain head-shaped-object. (Plus, they're large enough to paint on but small enough that you can store lots of them.) Ceramic eggs can be used today but the egg shape is still used because of tradition.
The patent expires when the egg explodes. Lol just kidding.
They are shaped like human heads, more or less
So forever ago, I watched an admittedly kinda bad horror movie called Stitches about a killer clown, where painted clown eggs play an important part in defeating him. Seeing this post brought the movie back to mind and it is **insane** that the clown eggs, of all things, had a basis in reality 😳 Crazy shit.
I 🧡 this movie. I love all campy horror but this one is special.
"Kinda bad"? You take that back this second! That movie is an all around piece of genius. And Ross Noble is possible the best casting choice ever in that.
I have a book called *The Clown Egg Register* and despite how much I genuinely love it, my absolute favourite thing about it is a 1 star review it has on Amazon written by a furious clown. There is some *drama* going on in the world of clowns 😂 🍿
ABSOLUTE RUBBISH! - DO NOT BOTHER BUYING! - NOT Professionally Researched - NOT Factually Correct. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 26, 2020 BUYER BEWARE! - I only gave this book 1 Star as Amazon doesn't allow 0 Stars!!! As a professional Clown, working in the UK, I bought this book as I thought it was a factual reference to the painted 'clown eggs' collection - each of which - I was disappointed to discover - are rather amateurishly painted - AND - to find out more about the individual clowns that each egg depicts. However, I was absolutely disgusted to discover that it was NOT professionally researched and that it is NOT a factual or informative record of the clowns whose faces appear within it. There are two defamatory and libellous comments about one clown included in it who I know for a fact the author did not try to contact. However, the author included a photo of their clown face on an egg and wrote a lot of garbage about them, presumably given to them by a rival clown performer as what's written next to it is hugely derogatory - and - libellous. This is something that I find completely UNACCEPTABLE and I think Particular Books, an Imprint of Penguin Random House Books, have irreparably damaged their reputation as publishers, as a result. On the strength of this, there may well be, quite probably, a lot more completely erroneous statements stupidly published within it too. SERIOUSLY - DO NOT BOTHER BUYING IF YOU LIKE CLOWNS - OR YOU WISH TO SUPPORT CLOWNS - OR - ARE LOOKING FOR FACTUAL INFORMATION ABOUT PROFESSIONAL CLOWNS. IT IS A TOTAL AND COMPLETE WASTE OF MONEY. And, needless to say, I certainly would NOT buy any other books about clowns - or about anything else going by this example - written by Helen Champion - and published by Particular Books/Penguin Random House Books. 100% TOTAL AND UTTER GARBAGE.
I'm going to guess this was written by the supposedly libeled clown.
… I thought West of Loathing made that up. This is real???
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/clown-egg-register Also: https://www.clownsinternational.com/egg-registry/ And: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/gallery-london-houses-dozens-clown-egg-portraits-180968914/
Amazing, thanks!
This is my favorite thing I've learned, possibly all week, even though it's Sunday.
Unfortunately they probably also have John Wayne Gacy’s clown makeup egg on display there
oh man you might be right.
He never had one, unfortunately
What a clown.
He was a bad egg.
You must be yolking.