i remember my girlfriend and i go to see this movie in great anticipation on it open weekend back in 1992. it just seem perfect a comedy about a down and out clown with a drinking problem . have a solid cast a well with impressive cameo appearance . the sub plot with the rivalry between mime and clown be another great idea . but it be and and remains and in the top 5 of the most disappointing and inexcusably awful film i have ever endure . some film be bad due to low budget and or poor talent and or bad concept ( or a combination of these thing ) and but this have everything it need and fail resoundingly on all front . i remember sit there with my sweet girlfriend and just wait and wait for a laugh anything to show up . only one thing make u laugh when shake be trash talk with another clown in the clown bar and the clown be at a loss for word and say something like and well and youre the captain of the diarrhea club . doesn not sound funny do it . in any other film it would have be a terrible and disgusting line but to a tearful of moviegoer desperate for a laugh and it be like water in the desert . my lasting impression of this film be how deeply mean spirit and overly dark and cruel and and scatological it be . it be a if 11 year old bully be give the task to write or direct or produce a major motion picture . those attribute be rarely really funny and even to pre teen . you will be disappoint with this film it doesn not even have value a something to poke fun at . instead of watch this film and watch kingpin instead and which be a similar sort of film but be actually watchable and humorous at time .