Need advice on how to be a clown.?

I have been asked to play the role of a clown at an adult themed circus party on Friday evening. This is a fundraiser and I have agreed to actually fo this. I have a question on what types of things can I do to help raise money while being a clown. I thought I could carry around a seltzer bottle and for an amount of money someone can spray me, and for less money I can spray them...I am in need of more ideas on this though...please help.Need advice on how to be a clown.?
Sondance speaks a lot of truth.





But every clown has got to start somewhere.





A very inspiring book for me was Clown Ministry by Floyd Schaffer. A book like that can give you some ideas. Not just ideas of what to DO but ideas of what to BE.





I believe a clown should be a servant who wants to give people a positive experience. One NZ entertainer says ';Clowns love people.'; Another of my teachers said, ';To a clown, nothing is as it seems.';





If people would enjoy spraying you, that could be good, and if they would enjoy being sprayed by you, that could be good, too.





Maybe you start with just that one gag. That's fine. One friend who I was encouraging to be a clown said she didn't know what to do. I told her to just take one prop and use it for everything. She came back very happy. She had carried a little stick and with it she had made music, and directed people, and grown flowers...





Although I want to be encouraging, I don't want clowning to be treated cheaply. When people see a clown, they usually react positively because of their previous encounters with clowns. Don't leave them less positive for the next clown they meet. Don't just exploit the goodwill that clowns have, contribute to that goodwill.





Please take clowning seriously. You don't have time to prepare a great act before Friday evening. (Here in New Zealand it's already Saturday morning!) But go into it with the intention of continuing with clowning afterwards.Need advice on how to be a clown.?
Just be yourself


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Real clowns do not spray people with seltzer bottles. Real clowns do not do anything to people that would hurt or upset them. A clown may spray another clown, or another performer, but would never spray a member of an audience, so the issue of their consent wouldn't even come up.





Becoming a halfway decent beginner clown takes several months of intense training. Real clowns learn how to put on makeup so that it looks good and friendly, not grotesque and scary. Real clowns, even beginner ones, have skills that they could perform at the party that people would enjoy, such as juggling, balancing objects, and physical comedy.





People who claim to be afraid of clowns often say that it is because they ';had a bad experience with a clown'; at some time in their life. In fact, the reality is that most of those experiences were not with real clowns, but with someone dressed up in a clown suit that had no idea of what they were doing or how to behave like a clown. If you do as you described, this is the likely result. Not that you intend to be bad at it, it's just that without knowing what you're doing, there is little way that this could turn out to be anything less than a disaster.





Since this event is a fund raiser, you would be much better served by contacting a full time working clown in your area. Hire a real, professional clown, not someone who performs mainly kiddie parties and doesn't know how to entertain people over the age of eight. Real clowns know how to perform for all audiences. Get a pro who knows how to perform comedy that adults would enjoy. Pay them their fee, and have them ';busk'; money from the other party goers for the charity you are raising the funds for.