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Homey D. Clown
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The setup
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The premise
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A group of kids is dancing at a basement birthday party when Homey D. Clown arrives to entertain them. He rejects each suggestion: no silly dance, no pratfall on a banana peel, and when a boy asks to smash a cream pie in his face, the boy ends up wearing it instead. A magic trick with a borrowed dollar bill makes the money disappear into Homey's possession, and he explains that clowning is part of his prison work-release program. For story time he flips through a hand-drawn "clown-toon" in which he is hassled about a tie at the fancy restaurant Chez Whitey and gets even with the snooty maître d'. He closes by leading the children in a sing-along about one day breaking the chains The Man uses to keep him down.
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Highly quotable.
I don't think so. Homey don't play that.
Homey may be a clown, but he don't make a fool out of himself.
I guess it's because I got so much love to give. And it's part of my prison work release program.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
This sketch is Homey D. Clown's first appearance on In Living Color; the episode in which it aired is titled "Introducing... Homey D. Clown."
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:09
Mother
Happy birthday, Snooki Uncle! I have a surprise for you!
- 00:13
Yeah!
- 00:15
Mother
Homie the Clown!
- 00:20
Homie the Clown! Homie! Homie! Homie! Homie!
- 00:29
Homey D. Clown
Alright, kids. I'm Homie the Clown. Y'all ready to have some fun? Alright, what y'all want me to do first?
- 00:49
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Yeah!
- 00:55
Homey D. Clown
Yeah, degrading myself, huh? huh? I don't think so. Homie don't play that.
- 01:04
Homey D. Clown
Yeah, fall down, bust my skull open, have my blood and brains ooze out on the carpet so you can get a couple of cheap laughs, huh? I don't think so. Homie don't play that. What else?
- 01:35
Kid
Can we smash the cream pie in your face like you do in your clowns and stuff?
- 01:40
Yeah!
- 01:42
Homey D. Clown
I think you got it backwards, son. Now, how do you feel about yourself?
- 01:52
Kid
Totally dissed, homie.
- 01:54
Homey D. Clown
That's why homie don't play that. All right, how about a magic trick?
- 02:03
Yeah!
- 02:05
Homey D. Clown
Who got a doubt?
- 02:06
Kid
I do, homie! Here you go, homie!
- 02:11
Homey D. Clown
All right, I fold it once.
- 02:13
Ooh.
- 02:14
Homey D. Clown
Twice.
- 02:16
Ah.
- 02:17
Homey D. Clown
Now it's gone. Ta-da! Let's get something straight, kids. homie may be a clown but he don't make a fool out of himself
- 02:28
Homey D. Clown
I guess it's because I got so much love to give and it's part of my prison work release program I got about five more year this clown crap
- 02:43
Homey D. Clown
cartoon time y'all pay special attention cuz this one has a certain message to it
- 02:56
Homey D. Clown
once upon a time homie the clown went to to a fancy white restaurant. Shea Whiting was the name. As always, Homie gets a hassled by the man. He tells him that a tie is required in order to eat in this establishment. So Homie says, man, get them damn ties out of my face before I kick your ass. But unfortunately, Monsieur Snowflake didn't quite hear homie correctly. So homie had no choice but to keep his word. The end.
- 03:46
Homey D. Clown
So what have we learned if nothing else, childrens?
- 03:50
Kid
A homie don't play.
- 03:52
Homey D. Clown
Now let's sing the homie the clown song. Repeat after me.
- 04:05
Homey D. Clown
Homie the clown.
- 04:06
Homie the clown.
- 04:07
Homey D. Clown
don't mess around even though the man try to keep them down one day homie will break all the change didn't fly away but until that day homie don't play
- 04:24
Homey D. Clown
I said repeat after me very good
- 04:34
Kid
they hold me smile after all birthday kid
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