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Funny Business Newsletter

January 2009 Volume 19 Number 8

Denny’s Restaurant 3000 W. Chapman, Orange
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Next meeting Monday, January 12, 2009 7:00p.m.

Hello you wonderful Smile Seekers,
I hope that your holidays brought joy to you and your families. I didn’t make it to our party, I’ve still been fighting that under the weather thing but thank God I am here to fight with it! I hope that the New Year brings even more smiles this year to your faces and the people you will be entertaining, speaking of entertaining that what this meeting in January is all about whats hot in entertainment.

If you made it to convention we want you to bring your most favorite thing you learned and share it with the others and if you didn’t make it we still want you to share the most coolest thing you learned in 2008 if you have more than one thing you think might be useful for your brother or sister clowns bring it on!!!! I want to see everyone participate bring a trick or balloon , skit, joke , routine, painting, game,or anything else that brings a smile to a frown it will also be great if you can bring notes enough for everyone to remember not a requirement just a suggestion . We all are clowns with a talent to share lets bless each other with our gifts! Speaking on gifts we have a lil something for everyone from Laughlin and I’m going to try and make everyone the trick I’m bring if not I’ll have enough directions for everyone! Hope to see you all Monday !!!! I miss you all your Prez elect BooBoo or was that by default hahahahahahahahaheeeeee !

KNOCK KNOCK WHO’S THERE ?
KNOCK KNOCK WHO’S THERE?
Doris Doris Who?
The Door is locked, that's why I'm knocking.

New Location
We are growing be leaps and bonds and I have been getting phone calls from former members that they heard through the grape vine that we at funny business have it going on. So we are looking a t more members joining and our location we have now is not going to accommodate to many more people so We are asking for members who live in the area of where we meet to help look for a new location. It most have good lighting And wheel chair accessible and close to the freeway . Please call or an officer email us with locations .

Song of the Month
Please this is share month If you know a fun song we can do at our events bring a song to share!

Balloon Of the Month
BooBoo is doing a balloon again this time I will really remember how to do it ! cross your fingers Also if you want to share a balloon bring it on!!!!

Whats Hot! Starts next month
Ask for details!!!

Riddle of the Month
What kind of dance do you do on the trampoline? First one to tell me the answer after 7:00 pm wins a prize at Meeting

Every last Monday of the month Balloon Jam At Denny’s in Colton Ca. If any one wants information ask Boo Boo

Our Milk Carton Section
Princess Pipsqueak !

Hello COAI members,

If you plan to get some clown education this year, COAI is the place to do it! Mark your calendars for the “Run for the Noses” convention in Clarksville Indiana! Many of your favorite clown instructors will be there and if you have young junior joeys, well, guess who will be teaching classes for them along with other COAI board members? Of course! ME!! The dates for the convention are April 21^st through the 26^th. Here is the website: http://www.inkyclowns.com/convention.html Check it out and see all the fun things planned! Also, if you are interested in putting in someone for Clown of the Year, or if you are interested in putting yourself in for “Excellence in Clowning” or working on Clown Week, well you can talk to me about it anytime! Happy Clowning!

Candy

Butterscotch the Clown and COAI SW Regional Vice President

Paula "Stickers" Biggio

At the end of January we will have a special program with Paula "Stickers" Biggio date and location to be announced. Paula Biggio, from the Chicagoland area, is a seasoned clown performer and storyteller having worked over 23 years as a full time entertainer. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, Clown Camp program, where she has been on staff for the past 17 years. She held the position of Education Director for the World Clown Association for 4 years. She has performed and lectured throughout the United States, Japan, Europe, Canada and Australia. She has been a keynote speaker at national and international clown conventions for Clowns of America International and the World Clown Association. She has a bachelor's degree from Rosary College and a strong background in both theatre and business.

The 3rd Annual Clown Cruise will take place January 10-17, 2009 Clown Cruise 2008 was a weeklong clown cruise extravaganza chocked full of education, hilarious clown shenanigans, fun people, new friends and warm, exotic ports of call. What more could a shipload of clowns ask for?
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The Great Southern California Shake-Out

On December 19th our club was part of the three clubs holiday party that was held at Seal Beach Leisure World. The clubs involved were, the Cancer Support Group of Seal Beach Leisure World, our Funny Business club, and The Joy Klowns of Seal Beach Leisure World. Some of the people with cancer in the support group asked if the clowns in their clubs if they could come dressed as clowns to cheer them up during the holiday season. Well, TWINKLES d’ KLOWN, Diamond Lil' and LU-C-LUV came as clowns and were loved by all. We had close to 100 people in attendance at the party. We were running out of seats and we had to bring in more of them. Of all the people in attendance we only had a mere FIVE Funny Business members at the party. All members that were not at the party, you missed a memorable and fun evening.

The potluck was YUMMY and Diamond Lil’ made two turkey with all of the fixins’, and Virginia of the cancer support group brought a LARGE ham. Others brought their specialties, which were enjoyed by all.

Diamond Lil’ arranged for the entertainment which was SUPERB, to say the least. We had the “NO NAME BAND” of Leisure world who played throughout the evening. Most of the band members were part of bands that were famous during “the big band” era. We sang along with most of their songs, which was fun. We then had opera tenor Dan Galliani sing. He had studied voice in New York and Rome and has performed in La Boheme, Tosca and Madam Butterfly. His voice was amazing.

And then Deanna of the cancer support group came dressed as her FAMOUS character, “LADY KONG”. For those who have watched women’s wrestling on television, or who have ever been to a game, you will probably remember seeing her. And her voice was also beautiful and she also did some singing.

Lillian “Diamond Lil” Loring did the majority of work on the party and we want to thank her for all that she did to make a very memorable and fun evening. THANK YOU LILLIAN! - Vice-President Pam House -

I’m sure that everyone was busy “clowning around” during the holidays. I know that I was. On December 20th there was a Christmas party at “Travel Country Trailer Park” in Garden Grove. DIAMOND Lil’ and TWINKLES d’ KLOWN were there from Funny Business as were some clowns from the Volunteer Clowns of Orange County. We had Doc and his men from Cactus Garden’s serving the food (a full holiday meal). And Santa was there and the children got toys. Our club sponsored a family and we were supposed to bring our “gifts” to the holiday party. Only two of us provided the gifts so I put in much more for the family. It was a FUN time for all that attended and the families were so appreciative of the party. They are mostly one-parent families with many of the fathers in prison. We support this every year.

And on Monday, December 22nd, Frank Garcia and his WE GIVE THANKS, INC. non-profit committee had his annual special toy giveaway and visit from Santa. The parking lot at his restaurant is not big enough so we were at Nuno Brothers Marked in Santa Ana a few minutes from where All-American Balloon use to be where we held our meetings. I got up that morning to a DOWNPOUR of rain. I called Frank Garcia to see if it was canceled. His reply was that he and his crew had been there since 5AM setting up and “the show must go on.” So TWINKLES d’ KLOWN got ready and headed over there. It was suppose to be from 11AM to 2PM but we had LOTS of children so it ended at 5PM. I was told that there were some T.V. cameras there filming the event for the evening news. But I was tooooo busy to notice.

I took my trusty “decorated umbrella that I had bought at a clown club meeting from Boo-Boo (thank you Boo-Boo) and began walking the line in the rain. The line went to the end of the parking lot and then went way back into a tract of homes almost to the end of the VERY LONG block. I walked back and forth and at some point, the rain stopped.

We ended up serving 4,500 hot dogs and had other food for the people in attendance also. And the looks on the children’s faces (12-yrs. old and under – low income & homeless) when they received their toy was something I will never forget. They were so appreciative. And we ran out of hot dog buns at one point and a Bimbo Bakery truck was driving by saw that and turned around and unloaded their buns and gave them to us. They went back to their store and brought back some more buns for us. And, in the mean time, people that drove by saw we were out of buns, and stopped and gave whatever hot dog buns they had just bought from the market. People knew this was the Frank Garcia “WE GIVE THANKS, INC.” event so they helped in their own way.

At our January meeting, let us know what volunteer clown gigs you were involved in during the holidays. – Pam House –

Your Funny Business Board and Associates:

Stacey Anderson "BooBoo" President/Treasurer
(909)496-8393stacey@superduperentertainment.biz

Pam "Twinkles d'Clown" House, Vice President/Treasurer
562-431- 5785 klassyklowns1@yahoo.com

Linda Garner, Secretary
949-939-6089 "Pepsie" 1garner3@cox.net

Paulette "Pom-Pom" Rosen, Newsletter Editor,Webdesigner and Webmaster
714/539-4472 pom-pom@ pom-pomclown.com

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