County commissioner doubles as rodeo clown - There are probably a few constituents out there who believe their county commissioners are nothing but a bunch of clowns. Residents in Tooele County really can say that, because one of their commissioners is a clown -- a rodeo clown.
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Clownin’ around with the man in the can - From Tobacco Road to rodeos in 48 of the 50 states, Keith Isley spends much of his life on the circuit — as a clown. In town for the Kitsap County Fair & Stampede, the 2006 and 2007 Clown of the Year recently welcomed the CK Reporter to his temporary post outside Thunderbird Arena.
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Former rodeo clown has monkey-collie act - Tommy Lucia grew up in Minnesota during some rough times. When he was 11 years old he set pins in a bowling alley until 1 a.m. and had three paper routes. His mother worked day and night to feed the family. When he was 15 he went to his first rodeo and his life was changed forever.
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Rodeo clown returns after 10 years - A gunshot rang out Friday night in the Love Valley Arena during the Third Annual Kick Up Your Heals for Hospice Rodeo. A second later, a clown popped out of the rejuvenator in a diaper. "Charlie Nance, get out of here," announcer Gary Trammell said, playing the Looney Tunes theme song.
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Clowning around at the Ventura County Fair's rodeo is a barrel of fun - My safety was in the hands of a guy named Crash. He told me about being in an Austin, Texas, rodeo this year where a bull hit the padded barrel that protects clowns so hard that Crash injured a vertebra in his neck. He told me about the reporter who wanted to try his hand at bull riding. He was thrown in the air, way up in the air. Then Crash smiled at me.
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School bully problem? Send in the clown - Marvin Nash -- a.k.a. Starvin' Marvin -- has been a professional rodeo clown for some 30 years, entertaining fans and protecting bull riders at great risk to himself. He routinely taunts bulls that outweigh him by more than 1,000 pounds.
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Jason Farley, rodeo clown at the recent Tuff Bull Tour Bull Riding Championships, has worked as a cl - What’s it like being out in the arena with only a barrel between you and a ton of rampaging bull? “Really, it’s just like going to work,” said Jason Farley, rodeo clown at the recent Tuff Bull Tour Bull Riding Championships at the Crawford County Fairgrounds. He said he’s been clowning around for about 17 years. “I started fighting bulls and worked into being the funny man,” Farley said. “It’s my job to take up the slow times.”
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Stampede Rodeo Clown Leon Coffee Retires - A legend of the Snake River Stampede is retiring this year. Leon Coffee, has been a rodeo clown in Nampa for more than a quarter century. Generations of fans have watched Coffee perform, distracting massive bulls, so cowboys could get to safety.
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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
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Three Forks Rodeo: Clowning around...professionally - If a cowboy can hang on to a bull for eight seconds, it can send a rodeo crowd into a frenzy. KRISTA MILLER-LARSON Potter says "Pickin' on people and the people you meet travelin' across the country," is the best part of being a rodeo clown. Potter has been in rodeo for about 20 years and an entertainer for the past six years. But nothing brings them to their feet like a rodeo clown who changes into a cheerleading outfit inside of a barrel in 2.5 seconds n all while being headbutted by that same bull.
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Specialty Acts Entertain The Crowd At Gladewater Rodeo - Professional rodeo clown entertainer Mark Swingler, who is making his first appearance this year at the Gladewater Round-Up Rodeo, uses a 1927 Model T clown car as a prop in a routine with an ending that catches crowds off guard. Wearing a trademark blue derby hat and his face painted, Swingler won’t give away any secrets in advance of his performance and prefers no one else does either.
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Rodeo News features clown JJ Harrison -  Okanogan graduate JJ (Jason) Harrison recently was featured as a rodeo clown in ProRodeo Sports News Magazine
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Ride 'em, cowboy Bullfighting rodeo clown isn't bucked by the dangers of the job - When Allan Dessel climbs onto his teeter-totter wearing a painted face, a cowboy hat, a fringed western shirt, red shorts and running shoes, he's not clowning around.
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Faces of a clown - What motivates a self-proclaimed city kid to paint a big red bug on his nose, slip on a huge pair of pants along with a bright red cowboy hat, and crawl inside a pickle barrel to pester angry bulls and broncs for 35 years?
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Rough ride doesn't deter Lathero - Bert Davis, a 34-year veteran clown, communicates with Grover by wireless headset. He said the relationship between clown and announcer is vital to an event's success.
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