Shakes the Clown (1991) on Netflix
Shakes works birthday parties as a clown and drinks heavily the rest of the time. When Binky takes the television job, his boss orders him to sober up or be fired.
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Plot summary
In Palukaville, Shakes works birthday parties as a clown and spends his free time getting drunk at the Twisted Balloon, a bar for clowns. His father died when he was young, and his father's friend Owen Cheese raised him and gave him the job. Shakes has auditioned to host the Big Time Cartoon Circus, a children's television clown show, now that its first host, Peppy, has retired. Word arrives that the position has gone to Binky instead. Shakes's fellow clowns Dink and Stenchy worry about how much he drinks, and so does his girlfriend Judy, a waitress and aspiring professional bowler. Cheese finally orders him to sober up or be fired.
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Cast
- Bruce Baumas Ty the Rodeo Clown
- Paul Kozlowskias HoHo the Clown
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Shakes the Clown (1991)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Shakes the Clown was widely panned when it came out, but later became a cult classic, with particular attention paid to how the film handled the serious subject of alcoholism.
- The film had a musical afterlife: the heavy metal band Slipknot used a sample from it in the song "Interloper", and R.E.M. titled "Binky the Doormat", from New Adventures in Hi-Fi, after one of its supporting characters.
- Bobcat Goldthwait made Shakes the Clown as a satire of the dysfunctional standup comedy circuit he was working in when he first started out as an entertainer.
