"Every Problem Is Good For Clown."

The first exercise for today was to play Tartuffe by Moliere, and the only thing the clown knows is that you need a table because there is a very famous scene under a table.

"If we think 'so beautiful imagination around something he doesn't know'… We are happy."

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We were all a bit hesitant to try this exercise, so instead Philippe offered a warm up exercise which we did for the duration of the whole class: have fun to imitate the sound a pinball machine.

"The more you do something stupid the more you dream you are going to receive $300,000 for this moment."

Most of us were bad - not funny or with much pleasure - but Tessa and Boris were great. Tessa initially got confused and thought she had to make the sound of a dolphin as Philippe had used the word 'flipper' to suggest a pinball machine...so she ended up doing a mix of a crazy pinball machine and a 'agah-agah-agah' dolphin sound. 

We loved her! And Boris jumped from a pinball machine to an overly happy cat hissing at us. They were both great, and at the end of the exercise there was a little contest to find the best one - with one going, then the other, then the other again... - and in the end they both won!

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"Every problem is good for clown."

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We also received this week's auto-course: We go to Monsieur Marcel to find out a new funny number and he says "the best way to make an audience laugh is a kick in the arse." So we have to work in a group of three and create something funny in which the same clown gets kicked each time, even though they think they've figured out the pattern that leads to the kicks. A classic clown number.

"Everything is in the preparation."

"It is always the best idiot who receives a kick."