How to Be a Clown Like Alex “Bozo” Jones With Help From Our Halloween Mask

A destitute clown is still a clown in our book

"...30 years, we've written plenty about Anderson High School Class of '93 alumnus Alex Jones as he's had his..."

Oct. 28, 2022 Features Feature

Not Clown

Physical Plant Theater becomes the latest Austin company to get a run in New York City when it takes its darkly comic political play 'Not Clown' to Soho Rep

"...Bella Eema, The Kindermann Depiction, and, most recently, Not Clown, an impressive, darkly comedic take on violence, bigotry, and..."

March 3, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Fears of a Clown

Austin's newest theatre company serves up the musical tale of a very famous French clown suffering an existential crisis

"...French circus troupe. Baptiste is a very famous French clown who has been performing his entire life in the..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Head of the Class

With Senioritis, the conclusion to his quartet of plays set at a Catholic high school in Houston, solo performer Rob Nash is all set to graduate -- to Off-Broadway, says Robi Polgar.

"...about finding his manhood when he's a dumpy, high-voiced clown and klutz and not a very good student. Ben's..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

I Feel Pretty

Amy Schumer looks for laughs in body image comedy.

"...but in her movies, you get the impression the class clown secretly wishes to be the most popular girl..."

April 20, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

No Manches Frida

A thief becomes a substitute teacher to get his loot

"...nowhere. It is the cinematic equivalent to the cringeworthy class clown at the back of the room that everyone..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

American: The Bill Hicks Story

The rants of the late, great stand-up comic Bill Hicks sound as fresh and brilliant as ever.

"...their film diligently tracks Hicks' evolution from suburban Houston class clown to fledgling stand-up to thinking man's comic, using..."

April 22, 2011 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Capturing the Friedmans

"...behind the greasepaint smile and comic antics of every clown there lies the soul of a sad, anguished human..."

June 27, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jim Gaffigan

Pack up the kids: Comedian Jim Gaffigan is back, taping his Austin shows for cable

"...high school experience like and how much of a class clown were you? How much of an outcast did..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Arts Feature by Steve Birmingham

Blank Generation

Amy Sedaris on 'Strangers With Candy'

"...AS: Oh, I was always a class clown, and I remember always getting into trouble in..."

July 21, 2006 Screens Feature by Steve Birmingham

Armageddon Time

James Gray's note-perfect depiction of moral failings in Eighties NYC

"...a sixth-grader who lives in Flushing, Queens, with his middle-class, liberal, first-generation Jewish parents (Hathaway and Strong, both superb),..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shortcut

Mangled Italian creature feature should be even shorter

"...on Oliver’s artist-babe), mouthy git-punk bad boy Reg (Sutcliffe), class brainiac Queen (Dew), and chunky class clown Karl (Emlano),..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

George Carlin

As George Carlin brings his Off-Base and On Target tour to Austin, area comics talk about this savagely funny and influential stand-up artist

"...be the first Hippie Comic, and when his album Class Clown came out with "Seven Words" on it, it..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Arts Feature by Steve Birmingham

The House

They say the house always wins, but sometimes ...

"...The torn-from-the-headlines premise about middle-class parents who are financially unable to send their child..."

July 7, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

After A Fashion

Stephen on the It Gets Better Project and recapturing the passion in life as a result of reconnecting with an old schoolmate

"...beautiful as it is dangerous. One of those ubiquitous Classmates.com e-mails got me thinking about someone with whom I'd..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Heart of the Game

Seven years of film footage went into this perceptive documentary about girls who play high school basketball, the situations unique to their gender, and their marginalization by the school administration.

"...Directed by: Ward Serrill. Darnellia Russell is a world-class athlete. Recruited for the girls’ varsity basketball team during..."

July 7, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Live Through This!

The Semi-Annual Rock & Roll Round-up

"...little David Lee was raised in a healthy, firmly middle-class environment, uprooted only slightly when Dr. Nathan Roth moved..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Books Feature

Hurd Is the Word

Cornell Hurd, Austin's most prolific C&W songwriter? It's no joke.

"...it because they wanna be loved. Was I the class clown? Nah. Was I thought of as being funny?..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Radical

True story of a miracle-working teacher busts misery porn cliches

"...Mr. Holland's Opus, School Ties, and of course, the classic Jim Belushi vehicle, The Principal. And while there’s been..."

Nov. 3, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Whammy Round-Up

Texas Rollergirls gather for annual awards

"...and who is with which team now. Official league class clown Belle Starr even had two dresses – a..."

Jan. 18, 2010 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

The top 10 ways to take Bill Murray home with you

Every girl's a sucker for a disheveled goofball who's crying on the inside.

"...makes you sigh. He masters alcohol-addled ad-lib and turns class-clown cock into art. You loved him when he felt..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Screens Review by Courtney Fitzgerald

Dr. Dolittle

"...PG-13 remake epitomizes the trend perfectly. With a middle-school class clown's lowbrow cunning, Dr. Dolittle's creators have zeroed right..."

June 26, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

That Thing You Do!

"...number of garages in the early Sixties. Zahn's girl-starved class clown, Lenny, is truly funny and just goofy enough..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Black and White and Rick All Over

The ABCs of 'The School of Rock'

"...a job as a substitute teacher in a fifth-grade class at an exclusive private school and winds up teaching..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Graduates

Once They Were My Students Now They Are

"...most likely, the third. On the first day of class, he gave me the wrong name. For his independent..."

May 25, 2001 Features Feature by Sarah Hepola

Requiem for a Sane Man

Exalting comic maverick Bill Hicks on the 10th anniversary of his passing

"...as a high schooler. I saw a very funny class clown who would come in prepared and dig into..."

March 12, 2004 Arts Feature by Steve Birmingham

Black Pumas’ Eric Burton Bets on Himself

After an abrupt break, Chronicles of a Diamond completely reinvents the band dynamic

"...of human connection, there's no question that he's a world-class entertainer. On October 21 at a heavily branded Formula..."

Nov. 17, 2023 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Moontower Star Sophie Buddle on How Comedy Is Becoming More Welcoming to Women

“Austin is such a comedy city”

"...5K race time – from her high school gym class. "I did my first year of stand-up with everybody..."

April 15, 2022 Arts Feature by Dina Barrish

Get Folked!

An interview with the men behind the Folksmen.

"...AC: Were any of you the typical class-clown type back in the day? Were you big into..."

May 9, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Graduates

Once They Were My Students Now They Are

"...was water for me." When he came into my class, he had already failed freshman English once. So at..."

May 25, 2001 Features Feature by Sarah Hepola

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