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Newspaper Articles on Rodeo Clowns from around the worldThese Clowns are Funny – Some of the Time - And there's a special brand of rodeo performers right in the middle of the action. They're bullfighters, lifesavers and comedians, all in one. Send in the clown - ory Meeks carefully outlines an exaggerated circle around his eyes with a thick, black pencil.
A white shirt covered with black spots hangs behind him as he uses a paintbrush to cover his face with white face paint.
In a matter of minutes, Meeks transforms from cowboy to clown, wearing bright white shoes and baggy jeans held up by red suspenders. Rodeo clown entertains the crowd while protecting bull riders - Rory Meeks carefully outlines an exaggerated circle around his eyes with a thick, black pencil.
A white shirt covered with black spots hangs behind him as he covers his face with white paint and some black freckles. Former bull rider uses decades of experience to protect cowboys from bucking bulls. - Rory Meeks carefully outlines an exaggerated circle around his eyes with a thick, black pencil.
A white shirt covered with black spots hangs behind him as he uses a paintbrush to cover his face with white face paint. CJ The Rodeo Clown Draws Laughs - A lifelong love of rodeos led Cameron Jeppesen, a former Buddy Badger, to don face paint, gather a compilation of mismatched clothing and transform himself into Boundary County's own "CJ the Rodeo Clown." RODEO CLOWN REUNION DELIGHTS DEADWOOD - Nestled in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the town of Deadwood gets a little more western and wild for the week the Days of ’76 Rodeo is held. To add to the rip-roaring good time the Rodeo Clown Reunion came to town and gave even more laughs and excitement to the citizens and the fans. The honorees at the Reunion donned their familiar make-up, which is unique to each individual rodeo clown, and their costume, that some wore for forty-some years, and had great fun with everyone they saw and met. Despite danger, rodeo performers enjoy thrills, fans - Randy Minnick wears an ever-present smile, delivers a firm handshake and is quick to tell people to call him by his nickname, “Doc.”
In many ways, he embodies a normal southern man. What separates him, however, is his unusual job.
Minnick, a rodeo clown, took center stage Friday night at the Ozark Pro-Rodeo Classic. Rodeo clown marks 50 years in the business - Sikeston's favorite rodeo clown is celebrating a milestone at the Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo this year.
"I've been coming here for 50 years," Rick Young said. "Can you believe that?"
And in that 50 years, Young's attendance would have been perfect had he not been under contract with a rodeo booking company. His job is more than just clowning around - Rodeo clowns do not always laugh; sometimes they wail in pain. Rodeo Clowns: The Cowboy's Cowboy - Death is just a game to a rodeo clown.
Clown celebrating 40 years in rodeo business - When Jim Bob Feller, 56, was a boy, his father was a preacher, so the family moved around a lot.
Rodeo Clown Reunion Dodge City Days July 30th Through August 3rd - What it the true measure of the rodeo clown? If you are anywhere near Dodge City, Kansas, from July 30th through August 3rd, come to the Dodge City Days celebration and PRCA rodeo and see for yourself. There are forty retired rodeo clowns arriving to sign autographs and entertain the fans from every direction – Montana, South and North Dakota, New Mexico, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, New York, Louisiana, Arkansas, Colorado, Michigan and Missouri. They will don their familiar make-up and big baggy britches and get laughs where ever they happen to be Days of '76 Rodeo to Feature Clown Reunion - The laugh-getters and bullfighters of yesteryear are gathering for their annual reunion during the 2009 Days of ’76 events in Deadwood, July 21-25. Rodeo clowns from 14 states will gather in Deadwood to be honored for their years in the arena entertaining rodeo audiences and saving bull riders from serious injury Rodeo clowns not clowning around at school - For a sport that lasts just eight seconds bull riding is one of the most dangerous known to man. It’s not just dangerous for those who mount the 2,000 pound beasts, but also for the people who help keep them safe in the ring. Rodeo clown brightens the lull and warms the hearts of a chilly crowd - At the opening performance of the 2009 Sisters Rodeo on Friday night, the 33-year-old barrelman grabbed the attention of hundreds of rodeo fans. By the end of the evening’s third event, spectators were chanting his name, standing up, sitting down, waving and cheering — all with one pump of arm high in air, or a simple “How y’all doin’?” LAUGHS GALORE AT THE RODEO CLOWN REUNION - A rodeo clown’s humor never grows old. Some of the oldest jokes in the rodeo arena are still being told by today’s funnymen. The Rodeo Clown Reunion with gather at the Deadwood Days of ’76 Rodeo on July 23 through the 25th. The Honorees will be arriving from fourteen states including Florida, New York, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, Nevada and more. There's plenty of bull to this clown act - There's much more to this clowning at a rodeo than applying paint, putting on baggie pants and cracking a few jokes. Swingler takes clown act seriously - When Mark Swingler got the call to perform as the rodeo clown at this year's La Fiesta de los Vaqueros, he compared it to a golfer getting the opportunity to play at "The Masters."
"When we got the call . . . it was another milestone to my career," Swingler said. "Tucson is it."
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"The small stuff" The purpose of the Clownville News website is to provide hyperlinks to news articles on clowns and other entertainers. We search the internet looking for News articles. Since we are a 'happy' newspaper, we ignore the stories of people dressing up as a clown and doing bad things. And we ignore stories where someone is called a clown. The web site is updated on at least a weekly basis with the 'new' edition ready every Monday morning. But if there is nothing good to add, there may be no updates for that week. We display hyperlinks to information from clown sites that run an News feed (Using RSS or ATOM). Such as the CRD (ClownResourceDirectory.com) and Clown Events (ClownEvents.com). If you run such a 'feed', send us an email with info on the feed and we will add you to the website.
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