Traditional Circus Mayhem at Worthing’s Pavilion Theatre

Traditional Circus Mayhem at Worthing’s Pavilion Theatre

Clowning entrepreneurs Clive Webb and Danny Adams are keeping the silliness of slapstick circus alive by bringing their water fights and crazy gags to Worthing’s Pavilion Theatre for the May bank holiday.

Best Comedy Award winners Clive Webb and Danny Adams, together with award-winning clown Cousin Timoni and Mick Potts’ legendary rock band Clownforce, fill Circus Hilarious with side-splitting humour, slapstick comedy, magic trickery, audience interaction and all the exhilaration of the big-top complemented by the Circus Hilarious Dancers.

Clive struggles to retain his dignity throughout the show as Danny’s comedy antics become increasingly more hilarious and progressively more outrageous. The mix of tomfoolery, fluffed magic tricks, water and foam fights plus quick-fire gags ensure plenty of laughs for the whole family.

Clive began his clowning career after a failed start as a drummer, plumber’s assistant, sewerage farm worker and sausage-stuffer before he joined Robert Brothers circus where he stayed for seven years until he became head clown. Seeking new comic opportunities he left the circus and formed comedy band The North Stars, which won Opportunity Knocks, before creating an impromptu magic act, including a flea circus, exploding dustbin and a guillotine, which became an instant success and led to tours with the major names of the time such as Rolf Harris, Val Doonican and Shirley Bassey.

Clive has starred in a number of television shows from The Ronnie Corbett Show to The Royal Variety Performance. He co-hosted Razzamataz and How Dare You and was the first comedy magician to be named British Magical Champion.

Little did Clive realise when his son Danny was almost born in a dressing room they would later form their own comedy circus. Danny’s high-energy passion for circus has led to appearances on The Tweenies, Stars in their Dressing Rooms and It Shouldn’t Happen to a TV Presenter. His zany, high-energy style of comedy produces gales of laughter and gasps of amazement almost simultaneously as he combines a whirlwind mix of stand-up comedy, knock-about comedy, comedy magic, comedy unicycle/juggling, slapstick, comic impersonations and all-round madness.

Danny believes there are two types of comedy. He says: “There are people that say funny things and funny people. I like to think of myself as a funny person.”

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