The World Clown Association Issues An Official Complaint Against Stephen King Because The New "It" Movie Is Causing Clowns To Lose Work
The Hollywood Reporter – ...With the current remake tracking toward blockbuster business — Pennywise this time around is played by 27-year-old Bill Skarsgard in a costume inspired by “medieval, renaissance, Elizabethan and Victorian eras,” according to costume designer Janie Bryant — legitimate clowns are battening down the hatches for another spate of bad press.
“Last year we were really blindsided,” says World Clown Association president Pam Moody of the evil clown sightings — typically pranksters in store-bought clown masks who lurked near schools and in residential neighborhoods, sometime with weapons in hand. “We’ve since created a press kit to prepare clowns for the movie coming out.”
That guide, “WCA Stand on Scary Clowns !!,” reminds the WCA membership that the “art of clown is something to be treasured and enjoyed” and that “just because someone wears a rubber Halloween mask, that does not make one a clown!” It also recommends “that young children not be exposed to horror movies” such as It.
Moody, who as Sparky the Firefighter Clown teaches safety practices to thousands of grade schoolers in Des Moines, Iowa, says children by instinct are leery of clowns, just as they are leery of Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
“They’re different from regular people — they’re costumed characters. But no one is picking on the Santa Clauses, because that would ruin the retail business,” she says. “It would ruin Christmas for everybody.”
I mean…yeah. I got nothin. The Clowns are 100% correct. This movie legitimately made me afraid of clowns. There is no counter-argument. I never thought about clowns ever, then I saw this trailer, specifically this part:
And now I am terrified of clowns. I literally fucking hate clowns due to this movie trailer. Stephen King made me coulrophobic. He also made me smarter because he taught me that is a real word for being scared of clowns, but more relevant to the story at hand, Stephen King made me a Clownaphone. If I see a clown I’ll punch it right in its scary stupid clown face. I don’t even want to. It will just be instinct. Fucking clown face asses.
Sparky The Firefighter Clown is right. Why no movies about evil Santa Claus? Why doesn’t the Easter Bunny lure unsuspecting children into the sewer grates and disembowel them with his massive Easter Bunny claws? Because the Hallmark Industrial Complex would never allow it that’s why, the holidays are a big budget business that props up its biggest earners all while trampling on the little people and leaving them broken and downtrodden. Like clowns. Clowns don’t move merch.
I mean look at the persecution these clowns are facing!
The industry has taken a hit thanks to all this “scary clown” business. “People had school shows and library shows that were canceled,” says Moody. “That’s very unfortunate. The very public we’re trying to deliver positive and important messages to aren’t getting them.”
And the backlash has affected the legit clowning world in other ways. One WCA member arrived early for a children’s birthday party recently and waited outside in her parked car.
“She looks up and there are four police officers surrounding her,” Moody says. “Someone in the neighborhood called in a clown sighting.”
And nobody marches through the streets for clowns.
Fuck Stephen King and his anti-clowning agenda.
Count Moody as one of those irked clowns King references in his tweet. “It all started with the original It,” she notes. “That introduced the concept of this character. It’s a science-fiction character. It’s not a clown and has nothing to do with pro clowning.”
PS,
Boo.
[via The Hollywood Reporter]