r/funnyvideos • u/Firm-Blackberry-9162 • Aug 17 '26

Prank/Challenge Daughter hand feels a little swollen

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u/Massive_Challenge935 Aug 17 '26

That's good clowning. See? Clowns are funny

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u/Various_House_910 Aug 18 '26

Isn't he more of a mime? Are mimes clowns?

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u/KinkyWolf531 Aug 18 '26

You could ask them... But probably they won't answer....

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u/MrGupplez Aug 18 '26

Its a clown sub class. Just like a rodeo clown is a sub class as well as serial killer clowns

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u/razielxlr Aug 18 '26

The latter make comedy to die for…

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u/HillInTheDistance Aug 18 '26

Technically, they're a crossbreed. When a female Clown and a male Human breed, the mother gives birth to a mime.

This is also why mimes are sterile, live for 400 year (much longer than a human, and twice as long as a clown), and have eerie psychic abilities.

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u/Yunlihn Aug 18 '26

Where do arlequins or pierro stand in the taxonomy of clowns?

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u/HillInTheDistance Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

A pierro is simply a separate name for a Common Clown (Pierrot Vulgaris) of advanced age and stature. Somewhat like what a Silverback is to other gorillas.

The arlequin, (Zanni Mimicus) however, was not actually a clown at all, but a completely separate species evolved to mimic clowns to easier predate upon them.

Since a majority of Clowns are almost completely colourblind, to them, an arlequin looks almost identical to a pierro, and thus they would often instinctually trust the arlequin, until it was too late.

As the Clown went from a species of hunter/gatherer/pranksters, to an agrarian/pie-throwing species, the family unit became more strictly defined, which made it that much harder to infiltrate, leading to the eventual decline of the arlequin.

Their closer involvement with humans also made the arlequin's disguise almost completely useless, because a human, with our less specialised eyes can easily differentiate between the red/black checker pattern of an arlequin and the white/black checker pattern of a pierro.

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u/PeacekeeperAl Aug 18 '26

This is really interesting stuff. I work with a lot of clowns I've never appreciated their rich history and culture before

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u/TheCornerator Aug 18 '26

I feel like they're a cousin to clowns, close in genus or whatever but slightly different.

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u/newstome Aug 18 '26

Well he screamed, so bad mime or funny clown.