By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.
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| Birth: | 9th December, 1898 |
| Death: | 28th March, 1979 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Clown |
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Emmett Leo Kelly was born in Sedan, Kansas, USA. He was an American circus clown, best known for his role as Weary Willie, a mournful tramp dressed in tattered clothes and made up with a growth of beard and a bulbous nose. He worked at various jobs in and around the circus, including as a painter. He taught himself trapeze work and was hired as a trapeze artist for Howe’s Great London Circus. He worked for the Sells-Floto and Hagenbeck-Wallace circuses until 1931 and then for the Cole Bros.
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