The Jokes On You -- Who Should be the Butt of Your Jokes?

This article was motivated by something I heard (second hand) on the results of a local call to a magician of the anniversary of the child. Now, granted, this was not done by a clown, but I saw clowns do similar things. As one of his tours, he has a child (a girl of 9 years) have two handkerchiefs knotted. Sack his hands outside and instead of a third handkerchief show (or a flag or anything else) has a couple of ladies showing panties. The magician has received the response he wanted: the public lo high and long discomfiture girls. She, however, was on the verge of tears, after being publicly humiliated for having done nothing but help on where they are laid. As I said, which has a reflection on my part. The first honestly thought it was the insensitivity of this magician. My next thought is empathy and sympathy for the girl. And my third thought is different on how it would be a Clown (or should) have handled the whole routine. People believe that a clown is someone who stupidly door, and making mischief. It's OK, so you do not need. She also indicated that a clown is a caricature of life, a Looney Tunes come to life, he sees and thinks differently than normal people. The same is true insofar as it goes. But there is something more profound to be a clown. As Floyd Schaffer puts in his great book If I was a clown, a clown is someone who reduces himself to lift another person. This is not limited to a theological context. David Ginn, one of my favourite authors, and a great son of magician, uses the same principle on several occasions in his book Magic Clown with his Clown in trouble routine. In short, when something does not work, never missed the child - who is the clown who ridiculous. The child is one that evokes the rabbit, which makes repair cables, so that artists are fools, who should get the pie in the face, which is humiliated, they are resolved . It is our audience, children or adults, who should be empowered, triumphant, promise. For example, when to do birthday parties, I would like to make an old routine, so that the flowers appear in spring in a pan of chicken. As part of this, I want more assistants to the public at different stages, including one in which I use a wand to escape. To the uninitiated, this is not a magic wand that took place on the track, apparently in violation of his hand. Since practitioners are those who must take responsibility for this, I take responsibility myself, submit a tube normal child, and the celebration of breaking wand myself. He broke in the vicinity? Me! It seems stupid? I did not voluntarily. Is it to enjoy the birthday party, unless a scapegoat. In short, if only magician who has called the underwear magically when he holds a scarf, which would have been different? The child would have volunteers and lo (provided he had already had the attractiveness of work in their hands), the public would also have lo, and the magician would have been a small fund, keep in mind that was. As Benjamin Franklin said that we must learn from the mistakes of others, are not live long enough to make us all. Therefore, we will learn to make himself the target of jokes, not our audience. After all, we are paid to be stupid, the public's mission is to take advantage of it. Keep in mind that the joke is - as it should. Tom Raymond, aka. Raynbow Magic Clown, is a professional clown and underempoyed computer geek, who heads the world's largest website clowning, http://www.clown-ministry.com/ http://www.clown-ministry.com / His personal website can be found in http://www.clown-ministry.com/raynbow/ http://www.clown-ministry.com/raynbow/ Tom is available for both secular and sacred events, and will be available for meetings, conferences and events, the Department.