{"id":14914,"date":"2016-12-10T08:20:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T13:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/clowns-help-you-wake-up-from-americas-worst-nightmare-in-this-weird-anti-trump-video\/"},"modified":"2016-12-10T08:20:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T13:20:37","slug":"clowns-help-you-wake-up-from-americas-worst-nightmare-in-this-weird-anti-trump-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/clowns-help-you-wake-up-from-americas-worst-nightmare-in-this-weird-anti-trump-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Clowns help you wake up from America\u2019s worst nightmare in this weird anti-Trump video"},"content":{"rendered":"

For anyone who suffers from a fear of clowns, November’s election has either cured you or made your phobia worse than ever. Having someone so comically ill-prepared and uninformed in the White House\u00a0is a\u00a0nonsense so profound that its depths are\u00a0hard\u00a0to fathom, let alone plumb for humor. But one Brooklyn-based art\u00a0collective is taking a crack at it anyway, and largely succeeds with this weird new video called “Neck Ruffle.” Inspired by\u00a0America’s current nightmare, CHERYL‘s “Neck Ruffle” is a thoroughly absurd pantomime that features a bunch of glittery clowns who, after discovering the results of November’s\u00a0election, go around rescuing\u00a0apoplectic\u00a0citizens who are\u00a0lying, rather poetically, half-buried in piles of dead leaves, clutching newspapers with headlines about Donald Trump. Once resuscitated, they are\u00a0jostled into jocundity by the clowns, then covered in streamers, glitter and shaving cream. The clowns do a dance in\u00a0front of the American flag in front of a bandshell in front of a rainbow. And… Read More<\/p>\n

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