SUNDAY NOVEMBER 1ST 2026
BE A CLOWN
I was watching a show this week (Kill Tony), and before the show started they had a musical guest performing for the live audience. I did not know the artist before this, but the guy was wearing a full clown outfit, big bowtie and all, no makeup or wig, but his own hair was a bit clown like. No sleeves, tatted arms, and tiny rubber chicken earrings, so it was sort of an “edgy clown” look. My immediate thought was, “oh really? thats your gimmick, you’re the clown outfit guy?"… this guys work probably mid if he has to do all this clown stuff to get attention”.. super judgmental, I know, but he was dressed like a clown.
I kept watching, for some reason almost expecting him to be at least annoying as a musician… but he wasn’t, not only was he not annoying, he was very good, at one point he started riffing with the band, which wasn’t his own but the show’s band, and everything was just refreshingly good, the kind of good that makes you wish you had been there to see it live. I was all in with the clown outfit at this point.
After the performance, someone backstage asked him about the outfit, he said that he was originally shopping for a suit, but he tried on the clown gear and felt so comfortable that he couldn’t take it off, so he went with it.
Right there and then I realized that this guy was doing exactly what every creative should strive for… be so confident with the work you’ve put in to reach the level where you can just wear a clown outfit if you wanted to, and it would have absolutely no negative impact on what you present to the public. When I say Creative, I’m not only talking about artists, any person who figures themselves out well enough to stand aside from the herd is definitely a Creative. Any time we do something that sets us apart as individuals… it could be the clothes we wear, career paths or lifestyle choices, down to the type of food we choose to eat.. whatever separates us from the mob.. any time we do that, the mob will look at us as if we were wearing a clown outfit just asking to be ridiculed for not being like them.
When I first saw this guy onstage, I for a second reverted to that mob mentality, “why is this guy not being regular?”, but the raw display of artistic talent brought me right back around, no I also want to be a clown.
The name of the artist is Bosco Baker and the performance Im referring to is at minute 18:30 of this behind the scenes version of the Kill Tony show.
This week at a glance
Thanks for reading,
Andres