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I didn't think he intended to be funny. He was super at what he did though, what an imagination!

And aren't clowns supposed to be funny, even when most of them aren't?

It depends on how you are defining tragedy. I've seen lots of comic things that aren't funny, in that they didn't make me laugh out loud. But they were still incredible affecting comedy.

And besides, a mime isn't a clown.

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I didn't think he intended to be funny. He was super at what he did though, what an imagination!

And aren't clowns supposed to be funny, even when most of them aren't?

It depends on how you are defining tragedy. I've seen lots of comic things that aren't funny, in that they didn't make me laugh out loud. But they were still incredible affecting comedy.

And besides, a mime isn't a clown.

Not to belabor this, but he performed in the persona of a character named "Bip the Clown."

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This is the first I've heard of his stage persona, Bip the Clown. Marcel Marceau is all I knew him by. Maybe the Bip the Clown moniker caused unfulfilled expectations of being "funny," and disappointment to some of you. When I watched him I was amazed at his pure skill of mime, funny or not.

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