In a way, by clowning, Dad took her mind off the problems of the house.
His show features classic physical clowning comedy and absurd visual humour and was described as "breathtakingly brilliant".
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If that changes, Mr Livingstone may find that Londoners' tolerance for his pantomime clowning becomes rather more limited.
Clowning is a kind of innocent magic, divorced from day-to-day reality and enacted within a world of uncomplicated enchantment.
When the bottle was empty Loren pretended to try to catch fireflies with it, but he was obviously just clowning around.
When we all got together the lads would be clowning around and wanting to go out but that is just normal.
Enter Sam (Johnny Depp), a hopeless case with a taste for clowning and magic who finds a kindred spirit in Joon.
Not only do Azerbaijan's human-rights abuses make a grim backdrop to the clowning of Eurovision: some have been perpetrated on its account.
"We had done about seven or eight takes (on the 'Jeffersons' set) ... and then we started clowning around, " he said of the walk.
He steered the company through a wobbly patch after it opened a new plant, but never seemed entirely at ease with the founders' clowning and campaigning.
Amid such clowning, good writing is probably the soundest defence.
Ruffins, who channels Louis Armstrong with his brilliant trumpet playing and clowning vocals, has played Lincoln Center in New York City and will perform for thousands at Jazz Fest in New Orleans.
Ferrell isn't breaking new ground, but one day -- when he's branching out to play psycho killers and getting in touch with his inner Thespian -- we'll look back on his clowning period and wonder why he would want to do anything else.
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