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The Joker's iconic look is a fun little pop culture fossil. Like, he's not a circus clown or a birthday clown or a rodeo clown or any other kind of clown you might bump into today: he's specifically a vaudeville clown. We don't have those anymore, so that specific type of clown is now just "the Joker".

saturdaymorningmemories

I was wondering why so few clowns sport a tux with tails like he does.

prokopetz

Yeah, the kind of clown that the Joker's classic look is evoking is very much a clown for the stage. The idiom of the vaudeville clown has more in common with Charlie Chaplin than with Bozo.

jackhawksmoor

Nine year old Dick making extremely specific digs about the inferiority of vaudeville clownery and how pretentious someone would have to be to be a fan of vaudeville when they are CLEARLY the lowest and lamest form of clown. The Joker is being read for filth by a kid still in single digits and the true horror is that Batman gets the reference and is visibly smothering a laugh

zaprowsdower27

look, just because vaudville vanished a decade before clown eggs became a thing is no excuse for him to not get his own egg NOW this doesnt change that he's Doing It Wrong

arcanistlupus

Dick comes from a circus background. *Of course* he considers vaudeville to be the lowest form of clown.

prokopetz

Yeah, in my mind the humour of the proposed scenario is very much that Dick and the Joker are both being pretentious assholes about the history and practice of clowning, but, like, from opposite directions.