UPDATE: due to a suitcase malfunction (didn’t arrive on time) the show will be on Friday at 8:30 pm, and the class will be SATURDAY […]
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From The Neck Down: Physical Comedy Workshop for Standup Comedians
I’m teaching my first physical comedy workshop in Spain! I’m teaching at the Comedy Clubhouse, a venue that has in a very short time become […]
Free video through February 5: Marcello Magni & Jos Houben
Two of the original members of Theatre de Complicite , Jos Houben and Marcello Magni, opened the 2016 London International Mime festival with their show […]
Joe Dieffenbacher Teaching Clown in Spain
Joe Dieffenbacher, former director of the Clown Conservatory in San Francisco and the former clown teacher at the Dell’arte School, is teaching some workshops in […]
Finding Comedy with Tom Greder March 16-19 BCN
UPDATE: due to a suitcase malfunction (didn’t arrive on time) the show will be on Friday at 8:30 pm, and the class will be SATURDAY only. Prices for the class are less, and if you already purchased tickets, you will get a refund. Links should still be valid At Espai Piluso, a small space in Barcelona’s Poble Sec neighborhood, Swiss […]
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From The Neck Down: Physical Comedy Workshop for Standup Comedians
I’m teaching my first physical comedy workshop in Spain! I’m teaching at the Comedy Clubhouse, a venue that has in a very short time become the premier center for English language comedy and improv in Barcelona. Located in the historic Born district, they have open mics and shows every day of the week. I’ve performed there a couple of times […]
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Free video through February 5: Marcello Magni & Jos Houben
Two of the original members of Theatre de Complicite , Jos Houben and Marcello Magni, opened the 2016 London International Mime festival with their show Marcel, It’s a clown double act in which Houben, the tall, skinny figure of authority puts the shorter clown Magni through a series of demanding physical and mental tests. What these tests are for, it’s […]
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Joe Dieffenbacher Teaching Clown in Spain
Joe Dieffenbacher, former director of the Clown Conservatory in San Francisco and the former clown teacher at the Dell’arte School, is teaching some workshops in Spain. And I’m attending some of them! I’ve written about Joe before multiple times, see here to see the list, and I’ve known Joe a long time, but I don’t think I’ve ever taken a […]
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Uncle Sam’s Bicentennial Birthday Bash : Toasting Dan Rice!
Dan Rice, the most famous clown you’ve never heard of, is going to turn 200 this year! You may not have heard of him, but surely, you know his image. Dan Rice was “most likely” the model for the classic Uncle Sam poster. It’s not 100% proven, but the poster looks a lot like him, and combines his costume and […]
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Book Review: Sheep Theory by Greg Frisbee
I’ve known Greg Frisbee for about 15 years now. He’s a performer/juggler/magician who has performed all around the world and a lot on cruise ships. I hired him multiple times when I was running the New Year’s Eve Festival Bright Night Providence (he had a local connection to Providence) and everybody always loved his show. Greg has recently written […]
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Improv Comedy classes in Barcelona
There is a surprisingly robust English speaking comedy scene here in Barcelona, and I’ve been dabbling my toes in it. I hope to write a few more posts about it, but in the meantime, it’s interesting that there’s such a divide between clown and standup in people’s eyes (including mine) Thinking about it, I feel like the difference between standup […]
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Teater De Papel /Paper Theater by Rauxa Cia
I saw a really great show last night at the International Puppet Theater Festival at La Puntual (see the review I did last week of Hugo and Ines). This is the last week of the festival, although Puntual looks to have a pretty full schedule for the next few months. The show Teater de Papel /Paper Theater by Rauxa Cia […]
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Hugo and Ines at La Puntual in Barcelona
I don’t know how I missed this , but there’s a theater in Barcelona dedicated to puppetry! And they are holding their 17nth International puppet festival, which has been going on for the last two weeks. And miraculously, I found out about in time to see two of my favorite performers (Hugo and Ines) performing in it. The theater is […]
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The Never Ending Jango- documentary- world preview
I’ve been attending the Festival of Fools here in Barcelona, which has been among other things a big send off to the Never Ending Jango Edwards, one of the principals of the festival for the last 50 years. (For the history of the festival, check out this recent post about the latest book about it.) Jango recently announced that he […]
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BOOK: Amsterdam’s Compleat Fools.
The Festival of Fools Barcelona 2022 is in fool swing right now. I’ve seen a few of the shows this year so far, and have been posting excerpts of some of the videos I’ve taken over on my Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/kafclown/ If you want to catch any of the festival, you should check out their website https://festivaloffoolsbcn.com/. There are plenty of […]
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Don’t Miss This: Book of Photos By Jim Moore!
I’ve talked about Jim Moore on the blog quite a bit. He’s an amazing photographer and former performer who has managed to make it his life work to photograph clowns, jugglers, magicians, and other variety arts performers. He does it with aplomb and a keen visual eye, and has taken hundreds of iconic performer photographs over the years. Perhaps he […]
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Comedy & More: Variety Show in Barcelona! February 11
I’m performing in a variety show in Barcelona on February 11! The show is called Comedy and More, and it’s billing itself as the first comedy show in Barcelona that is a variety of acts. (That’s pretty hard to believe– I think the only variety show in English in Barcelona right now would be more accurate– but I didn’t get […]
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“There Are A Lot of Bad Clowns” –Quoted in the Chicago Sun Times
I got a call a few days ago from someone looking to talk about clowns. And since that is one of my favorite subjects, I was more than happy to oblige. Now I don’t purport to be a spokesperson for clowns, or represent clowns on the whole. I wouldn’t say I’m a particularly good role models for other clowns to […]
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Harris Fellman: Funny Bald Guy
I’ve been coming to Barcelona for the past four years, and I’ve known Harris about that long. He’s a business guy turned magician, who has been slowly and patiently creating a niche for himself here in Barcelona as a comedy magician. He has (or had) an online store, a magic podcast, he plays standup comedy audiences as well as corporate […]
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Festival of Fools Barcelona October 28-November 6
THE FESTIVAL OF FOOLS I attended the opening night of the Festival of Fools gala put on by Jango Edwards and the Nouveau Clown Institute in Barcelona. I’ve featured Jango on these pages before- he’s kind of a legendary madman/bad boy of the clown world- moved to Spain in the 70’s and lived there for 40 years without papers before […]
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