Clown Phrases

Phrases

• A fool and his money are soon parted
• A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client
• A nod is as good as a wink to a blind bat (A line from Monty Python's Flying Circus)
• Act the fool
• Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life (Monty Python's Flying Circus song)
• And now for something completely different (A catchphrase from Monty Python's Flying Circus)
• April fool
• Be a good sport
• Better to remain silent and be thought a fool that to speak and remove all doubt
• Big-Hearted Arthur (Nickname of comedian Arthur Askey)
• Bill Stickers is innocent (comic response to the warning Bill stickers will be prosecuted)
• Busy old fool, unruly sun (from a poem by John Donne)
• Comic strip
• Comic timing (The rhythm and tempo of delivery required for comic effect)
• Comic valentine (A valentine card sent for comic effect)
• Contact sport
• Crazy fool (A catchphrase from The A-Team)
• Dame Edna Everage (Pseudonym of comedian Barry Humphries)
• Desperate Dan (a cowboy strongman character in the British comic The Dandy)
• Does the trick
• Every trick in the book
• Everyone's a comedian
• Fool around
• Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me
• Fool's errand
• Fool's gold (a brassy yellow mineral that the inexperienced prospector may mistake for gold)
• Fool's paradise
• Fred Carno's circus
• Good sport
• I pity the fool (A catchphrase from The A-Team)
• If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus
• It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it (Maurice Switzer quotation)
• It isn't nice to fool mother nature
• Joker in the pack
• Lonesome George (Nickname of comedian George Gobel)
• Make a complete fool of yourself
• Make a fool of yourself
• Media circus
• More fool you
• Never misses a trick
• No one expects the Spanish Inquisition (A catchphrase from Monty Python's Flying Circus)
• Nobody's fool
• Nudge nudge, wink wink (A line from Monty Python's Flying Circus)
• One trick pony
• Play the fool
• Played for a fool
• Redd Foxx (Pseudonym of comedian John Elroy Sanford)
• Send In The Clowns (Stephen Sondheim song)
• Shut up, fool. (A catchphrase from The A-Team)
• Tears Of A Clown (Smokey Robinson song)
• The Big Yin (Nickname of comedian Billy Connolly)
• The Charlie Chaplin of Television (Nickname of comedian Alan Young)
• The Cheapest Man in the World (Nickname of comedian Jack Benny)
• The Cheeky Chappie (Nickname of comedian Max Miller)
• The Clone Wars (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• The Clown Killer (Nickname of John Gacy)
• The Clown Prince (Nickname of Paul Gascoigne)
• The Fool On The Hill (The Beatles song)
• The Great Non-Rehearser (Nickname of comedian Jackie Gleason)
• The Great One (Nickname of comedian Jackie Gleason)
• The Greatest Show on Earth (Barnum & Bailey Circus advertising slogan)
• The Indian rope trick
• The Jester (Nickname of Gilbert Arenas)
• The Prince of Pain (Nickname of comedian Richard Lewis)
• The Tears of a Clown
• The Thief of Bad Gags (Nickname of comedian Milton Berle)
• The Wisest Fool In Christendom (Nickname of King James I)
• The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd
• The sport of kings
• There's no fool like an old fool
• Trick of the light
• Trick or treat
• Turn a trick
• Winning is the mark of the Rebel (Rebel Sport advertising slogan)