"Patch Adams, whose light-hearted approach to medicine was featured in the 1998 blockbuster of the same name, thinks the tsunami has changed the world for the better."

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― Austin, disgusted (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

One more reason to hate Robin Williams

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I worked on that film. Patch Adams was on set for much of the filming. He is an insufferable dingbat hippy. My checks didn't bounce so I was OK.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

guys, really now.

i've seen this guy work. he put on a red clown nose and made faces at a children's cancer ward. he made a girl cry.

― pooch adams, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Doesn't he know that clowns are a) terrifying and b) really, really unfashionable?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha awesome!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Adams and his crew of clowns have traveled to refugee camps and cities in the Balkans, Africa, Afghanistan (news - web sites) and Cambodia among others.

How is this man still alive?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Patch Adams's team of 30 clowns

God Forfend! Can't he be declared a terrorist or something?

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.tommcmahon.net/images/gacy3.jpg

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Look as long as his thirty clowns aren't coming to my hospital, I am happy.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

The man in the clown suit was Dr. Hunter 'Patch' Adams, the American doctor...has been traveling the world hoping to change it with love and laughter.

Shit like this makes me ashamed to be an optimist.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

can anyone date the clown->evil tipping-point?

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i wz badly frightened by one aged 5 in the first safeway to be opened in the uk!!

his big shoes were made of papier mache and REALLY BADLY PAINTED!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pretty sure it was Gacy that moved it from clown (mischievous trickster) to clown (psychotic terrorizer).

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

UH so what ezactly makes you think clownfear isn't just something inherent in the human condition???

xpost that makes SENSE alex and YET, mark's fear would've pre-gacy if i have mark's age roughly pegged and i think i do

― i wonder wonder wonder, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

surely stephen king's anti-clown thing predates gacy?

my safeway experience DEFINITELY predates him but that is just me ahead of the curve as a tot swank swank

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

mmmm roughly pegged

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think It predates Gacy, but I could be wrong.

Yes, well prior to Gacy, I think their was still a perception of clowns (and this probably dates back forever at least to jesters) as tricksters, mischievous and devious. I think kids can pick up on the idea that clowns are acting in some way outside the bounds of the normal social contract and that simultaneously delights them and frightens them.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah Gacy caught in 1978, It published in 1986. So Gacy definitely came first.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

sidebar: the crimes of ronald mcdonald

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Shit like this makes me ashamed to be an optimist.

Oh, c'mon Nicalizioso. This dude is a true believer, hippy ideologue so intent on making the world a better place through laughter that he can't see his shit stinks sometimes. I mean, sure, if I'm half-dead and doped up on mucho morphine I can understand laughing at/with him but I could do that with some Bill Hicks Cds or some Coluche or something and I wouldn't have to retch afterwards.

My boss in locations on that flick told me Patch was interesting so, one day, when it was slow, I kinda idle over to him and strike up a conversation which quickly becomes a monologue on his part about how conflicted he is being part of a major motion picture part of the 'system'. Then he continues buttonholing me as I try to think of ways to escape all the while thinking that, if I wanted to talk to crazy, slightly disgruntled hippies, I could go back to Marin where they breed. When I finally got away, I went to my boss and told him, 'yeah, real fuckin' interesting' and he laughed.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

He's a prat.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

He is an insufferable dingbat hippy.

Shockah!

― Leon Bluth (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Cecil B. Demented, where they have a director's cut of Patch Adams. Oh how I laughed!

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

What's A Bigger Cliche: "I Hate Mimes!" Or "I'm Scared Of Clowns!"

when are they gonna make the movie about patch and his band of clowns flocking to the most depressing places on earth like locusts? lars von trier, i have a script for you!

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, perfect score placement opportunity for that extended dance mix of "Shiny Happy People"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Cecil B. Demented, where they have a director's cut of Patch Adams. Oh how I laughed!

Isn't it a sequel? Either way, hilarious -- buncha kids crying on screen, cut to audience all being weepy and maudlin, Cecil comes in with guns...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

The movie was meh but I enjoyed that scene.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I love that movie! It's my second favorite Waters movie, after Pecker. That scene was rofflistic.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Cecil has some 'er, no thanks' moments. "Demented Forever," please. (Now imagine if they had gone all out with the Baltimore hip-hop stuff everyone loves these days, though.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

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