The setting is a town named Palukaville; the local radio station, K-LARD (yes, five letters), features an A.M. drive-time team of Loud and Obnoxious; the title character's girlfriend is a would-be professional bowler who pronounces r's as w's; the peepee, poop, and puke jokes make up a high percentage of the total jokes -- in sum, the comedy is very broad. The brotherhood of birthday-party clowns -- hard-drinking, foul-mouthing, back-biting, mime-bashing clowns -- makes an acceptable metaphor for celebrity wanna-be's. But nothing about the movie -- certifiably offbeat, often absurd, aggressive to the point of desperation -- is as funny as the fact that real-life clowns rose up in indignation over the portrayal of their fellows. Bobcat Goldthwait, Julie Brown, Paul Dooley; directed by Goldthwait. (1992) — Duncan Shepherd
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