Coulrophobia
If you suffer from coulrophobia, DO NOT watch this video.
Here is the video of that woman who suffers from coulrophobia.
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Posted on July 19, 2008 · Filed Under Lessons
I thought you meant Karl Rove phobia. That guy is such a clown!
what ever happened to the teachers pet????
I saw the teacher’s pet in the video. Kobe was trying to eat the potted plant.
now i know why i always go to A&W, KFC or Wendys other than Macdonalds , b/c i am afraid of the CLOWNs.
jereld
thanks Marina
This could be why people are afraid of CLOWNS
Is there a word for fear of Republicans?
Or is that the same as the fear of clowns?
Gwillikers
<a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_BPcDOjJCc” check his out
Maybe some day I’ll do it righ the firs time check his out
that one failed I pasted the address now it doesn’t come up try this one
OMG! Bad clown, NO BALLOON FOR YOU!
just clowning! very sad indeed…
no
I never did like clowns, never understood them. I’m okay with Ronald McDonald, but that Burger King creeps me out. Kill the Burger King!
Oh, and Batman was awesome. YOU HEAR ME?! …it was awesome…
(Okay, maybe not that awesome, but definetly worth watching)
Not a fan as it goes as I do find them quite scary. Its more old dolls that to my head in. Once doing a viewing of a property, the owner had a vast collection of clown like dolls all over the house, all beedy eyed looking at me, I could tell some of them moved about too!!
- surreal but think clowns get my vote as they do make many others laugh and get happy inspite of what I think 
Clowns are really clever
My God daughter, Martha, once had a clown at her b-day party. He was very scary and most of her friends cried a bit to his strange acts. Freaky
…thinking about it, Jack Nicolson has much to do with my fear of clowns in some way as with Stephen King. Actually made to watch, right in front of the TV, The Shining at the age of nine by my baby sitter as they canoodled on the sofa. It was the begining of a very strange life for me……
also scared of a Ghost, but not of the spiritual kind!
Well scared of heights too, have tried to over come this phobia with tandum drops on several occasions but ney, like my feet on the ground thanking you.
Big fear of drowning which isnt good for when I scuba, just remember to breathe, slowly…..just talk to the fishes, its all good!!!
Have no problems with spiders anymore as handled them when ever I can. Down under in the Queensland State, I visted the Daintree Forest, had the amazing opportunity to handle some rather hairy bird eating spiders. Plus a variety of other insects and so on. Just the Python at the foot of my sleeping bag one morning was a shock to the system as it curled around my legs for comfort.
…just leaves fear of flying, have done so many flights its just gotta be a matter of time, once airborn, calm as you like, no worries, what was all the fuss about, zanax!
Be Brave
I have never been afraid of clowns. If I were afraid of clowns then it sure make going to work difficult… as you may have guessed, I am actually a clown. Balloon twisting, magic, juggling the whole nine yards and I’m also 6′6″.
There have been times when I’ve met coulrophobics before but the one constant I’ve noticed about them is that they are almost always adults or teenagers who have learned this fear from characters like Pennywise from It or the Joker from Batman. The only children I meet who are afraid of me, are the children so young they are afraid of any adult who are not his or her parents.
There are so many people out there with coulrophobia that most don’t see it for what it really is: An irrational fear!
Clowns aren’t dangerous, clowns aren’t radioactive, clowns aren’t poisonous, clowns don’t exploded (although I’ve had a number of balloon animals burst on me). Clowns exists for one reason: to make children happy and to make people laugh.
I’m sorry if I’ve gotten carried away but I’m tired of people acting like it’s normal and sensible to be afraid of clowns and all but trying to teach this irrational fear to there children. Well I’ll sign off now before I get carried away. I’m late for juggling practice anyway.
i felt so sorry for that lady…….poor woman…..
reminded me of when i say a TV program about Flying….fear of Flying…..tehy had people….in training planes…..to Act out a flying …..airport…ect……pooor sods…where in fear…..BUt its great that they can Try to Control there fear…..
…seen videos..of kids Not likeing to see…..santa….it must be to do ….with the Suits? they put on ….and the acting?
i love seeing all teh acting….and Skill…..that a clown is….its brilliant art…
I don’t know anyone with coulrophobia but I do know some clowns and I mean some real BOZO’s!!
I am. Don’t know why. If I don’t know who the clown really is, I stay the hell away from them. I don’t even like my daughter going near them.
Marina, where does the phrase “like the dickens” come from? For example, to say someone is “running like the dickens.”
People who run like the dickens are just chickens.
No clowning around
, I don’t know anyone with coulrophobia, but I know several people in their 30s that are deathly afraid of computers. They are not against technology or computers as such, but they have never operated one, don’t use ATMs, etc.
My wife is afraid of frogs.
I was going to make a joke, but I’ll restrain myself to protect
defend the guilty… you’all knoaw whaaattt ahh mean?
Is that what you kids are calling it these days?
lol, my parents, sisters and i are clowns, but we are a bit of a different type of clown, we use smaller shapes, and lighter make-up on our faces. you would be suprised how much of a difference that can make for people close up. circus clowns use larger and darker shapes to help be seen from the audience far away, thus when you get close it can be quiet intimidating. most people that are afraid of clowns are people that had some kind of bad experience with them, by either seeing a movie or face to face in person. some say they are afraid and they have never really seen one, so they are just saying it. their are rules of a sort for clowns but not many people know that, so they think they can just slap on some make-up and dance around being stupid, which works in a small way but they can easily do something that are in the shouldnt be done catigory and then put people off of clowns for many years, its sad and frustrating. not everyone is trained and yet they tarnish the name and tradition of clowning, i hope people meet the good clowns.
Most women wear clown suits? most wear some kind of makeup?
not sure what your getting at? are you trying to say that girls are clowns??
by you description about clowns, don,t most woman paint there faces with makeup? In effect making them kind of clownish? Out of the box thinking. just an observation.
oh, sorry i meant that we use the same types of make-up that other clowns use, we just work hard to make the faces of our charaters as friendly as possible. it has helped and some people that said that they were afraid of clowns werent afraid of us in clown because it wasnt what you might consider the typical clown look. is that a better discription?
Whitehawk: Thanks for the story
Actually, some boys and men have a fear of beautiful women, or women in general. It’s called venustraphobia or caligynephobia.
Interesting comparison
Not that women are clown-like, but the whole fear of being rejected,
–what am I going to do,
–I’ll sound stupid
–she’ll never like me
–pounding heart
–mind going blank
phenomena that some guys have is enough to stand in the way of relationships and causes some men to be doormats.
Fortunately, people can get over phobias easy to live full lives…WITHOUT psychotropic meds
You are the cutest on youtube.
Heres a fun word, try SPLUNGE, as far as I know its origin started in a skit on Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
isn’t a bit sadistic to expose that woman to clowns?
Not if it gets her over her irrational fears?
Tanathos: Good question
My response has 2 parts.
(1) It is “justified” if you think about it as a voluntary act that the woman consented to. Also, the woman intended to see clowns in the future, and the only way to get there is to expose her to clowns.
(2) That being said, the process shown on the video varies considerably depending on who does it
The procedure is called “Exposure” or “Systematic Desensitization”, where the person is slowly exposed to more and more evokative stimuli until they are able to handle being around things that are important to them…aka, social contact, driving, or clowns in this case.
Personally, if I were the therapist, I would have tried to expose her to the clown more slowly so as not to flood her out. This procedure elicited a strong reaction, so I would have asked her to do smaller steps. For instance, I would have let her slowly see the clown through a window first, then just open the door to see him, then I’d invite her to go just inside the door in a room where the clown’s back is turned, etc., until she was willing to come in contact with an active clown. Finally, I would be sure that the clown was doing something she enjoyed in that room. That way, it would be rewarding to be in the room :wink:, instead of merely becoming “minimally tolerable,” as they did here.
Marina: I liked your picture on the beach…it looked like you were having a good time
I wonder if you were on a cruise.
Thanks again, Beautiful!!
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I know but switching is not that easy, especially with biz & programs already in Windows…
That’s exactly wy I like pc’s!!
macs are way to easy
this is more like it.
I like that
remember this stoned chick?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VMt2MK67-Qw
mmmm shes more then just stoned.
im smoking like 3 to 4 joints a day.thats like 1 gram more or less
i tell you, if i start talking like that .
PLZ SHOOT ME
Thank you!…Just another step up in my quest for the best!
Since we’re having an OS war, check this out…
and the winner is….?
I’m a PC guy all the way, BIll Gates is my hero. (Yeah I’m a total nerd)
lol. yeah, well … 12-year-old girls and computers … what can i say … hehe.
:X
I knew this one because of an episode of Frasier where he tries to cure a woman of this phobia - very funny! In my opinion clowns aren’t scary AND they ain’t funny either! Let’s ban clowns - everyone will be so much happier…………apart from clowns of course
x for teacher x
Ha THIS IS NOT FOR PEOPLE OFFENDED BY”FUCK” its a 41 second banned commercial for learning english http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfXLVRhjrqY
already knew it, great
i wonder what was the first word created by man
ugh? or maybe autch!!!!
beer?
Hi Marina.
Being Danish myself i’ve always wondered how a pastry could be called a “Danish”. Care to investigate that word ?
Best Regards
Thanks
Word/phrase request. Hello HotForWords! I found you last week and have added some wonderful new phrases to my vocabulary. Thank-you for the free lessons. Which brings me onto the phrase: “Never look a Gift Horse in the mouth” What is a gift horse? and why shouldn’t I peek in its mouth if I wish to?
My son’s former girlfreind had coulrophobia, bad… maybe why she seemed to dislike me. Think about the clowns, dressed up to draw attention to themselves. What are their motives??? Could be they just want attention, alas, but some may have a pure heart in wanting to bring a momment of happiness to someones life (miserable existence).
Some do it solely for the paycheck (pros), others to scare, even some to protect ie. Rodeo Clowns. Probably the worst thing for a clown to be, would be to be irrelevant in a mad world.
Clowns spark different emotions in me… I’ve just spent the last hour listening to different versions of this song, it’s such a great song & almost every vesion is great…Send in the clowns
why is it that they call rich people ‘Blue Bloods’? It’s kind of weird.
not specially rich people ,more like royal people.
and the origin is not known.i think
some say its because of rich people in midevil times suffered a lot from “silverpoisening” im not sure if they call it that in english because i just plain translated it from dutch but anyways the silverpoisening gave them blue/grey skin/
another theorie says its because the spanish royalty in mideviil used to look at the white skin and blue vains to see of someone was royalty or mixed blood. so im kinda confused .
sorry for mu poor english. its getting very late here.im off to my bed
I think by silverpoisoning, you mean mercury (quicksilver) poisoning. mercury used to be considered good for longevity (Long LIfe). something most nobility is very interested in.
Requesting the word “Word”
and/or the word “tattoo”
Also I own the movie Stephen King’s IT
My little sisters best friend Ashley who’s about 15 is so scared of clowns she can’t even stand to see the cover of my movie
i how ever Love clowns its the dark i hate
dont be afraid of the dark ,the force will be with you ,always young padawan
i’m covered i sleep with the TV on haha, drives my boyfriend crazy because he can’t sleep with it on and i can’t with it off
i think you need to give him a break,tv on at night would drive me nuts too.
besides you got someone next to you ,
he will protect you im sure.
thats what we men love to do
good word. coulrophobia.
seriously, Marina, please find me the origin of the word “thingy”. Thank you graciously in advance,
Best Regards,
Michael J. Ray
(^.^)/
well teacher after 32933 videos whatched …woww…you becomes much more sexy…means….much more inteligente person …da da da
oh about me only 8214….cant compares whith you
oh of course i whatching and ranting my prefered teacher lessons …i sure i will becomes a new cleaver and smart persom huu huuu
davai davai my mother are asking if i gonna tk an shower or not
hehehe davai davai
not quite…but maybe i should go to YouTube…after all, this is a business, really, and that’s where she makes the real bucks…
I don’t know who you are addressing annuddermale, get some rest for your soul, you’ll be OK. Go for a walk in the moonlight, enjoy some good music, heck a few deep breaths are enjoyable, even grateful myself, to be able to breath deep. cheer up
Last!
Laster
not all clowns are scary ,maybe its their funny name like bozo,pennywise,pipo,bassie.george w. bush xd
sorry america
hahahaha its a joke alright dont nuke us now lol
I just wonder what he(bush) looks like under the makeup
well you know what they say” happy on the outside is ….”
I’m not scared of them, but they make me feel… I dont know. Maybe I am. Its hard to describe, anyway I just dont want to see them at all, theyre creepy.
Dear teacher, could you investigate something for me? I saw a label “Crapperr and Co.” on an old shop sign, they sold toilets. Is that where the word crap comes from? Or was it just a sign meant to be funny and it came from somewhere else?
I’m the scariest clown in the world. Because I’m the clown who is about to release a book, describing how the anti-Christblows up the world to cool global warming!
But I’m a nice clown, so please let me share with you the longest word in the world: THIS IS SCARY!!!! THE LONGEST WORD IN THE WORLD!!!!
Direct from my book manuscript:
Later, the longest word in the English language, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis, was created to specifically describe (classified. End of Transmission)
if you get scared under your bed covers, Marina, I’m sure your love puppy will hop in and protect you! Arf Arf!
Oh wait, no I’m not I’m 197th. I even have comments below!
First!!
I have a word request: Spiffy
I think my 6th grade teacher must of had coulrophobia, because she always telling me to stop clowning around.
I don’t fear clowns I just hate them, they just bug me.
When I was 4 years old my mom put a painting of a clown in my room that I was afraid of when it was time to sleep. During the day was no problem but when the lights went out, I could swear it eye’s followed me. I use to take it down and turn it around to face the wall every night and my mom would get mad. I didn’t have a fear of clowns in general because my favorite show on TV back then was Bozo the clown.
This just in, HotForWords suspected to have been verbophobic as a child. Thankfully philology was there to help, by giving her a better understanding of the words.Which cured her completely.
More funny phobias <<>>
You must check out peladophobia, levophobia, genuphobia and panophobia.
i think Marina on holiday today she is off every where
Why the face at the end?! Wasn’t anything frightening in the room was it?!
Tequila!
hahaha
please!
Aw Marina, clowns are just silly. And they do it on purpose too, so no need to think that while wearing that outfit they are not human anymore, or that they are possessed by a criminal spirit. And if you haven’t thought of them that way, than I’m sorry for bringing it up. Sleep tight
I know a phobia is no joke, but Marina is smart enough not to have any. You see, phobias generally comes from lack of knowledge or being mislead into thinking something is dangerous. Danger is the main cause of fear, and can trigger a powerful physical reaction and even bursting into tears. Marina if you still think your afraid of clowns, lend me your AK for a while.
I won’t kill any, I’ll just instill Chemikalphobia for every clown, clowness and clownie out there. 
so, what are you saying? smart people don’t have phobias? that the likelihood of getting or having a phobia dicreases the smarter you are? are you serious?
No, being smart is not enough to protect you from encountering a phobia. But having knowledge on phobia-inducing things, will help you prevent ever having to fear the unknown (a natural reaction).
So what is a smart person? One that possesses knowledge. So now you understand how I’ve made my synapse. Hey I might even be wrong, as a smart person might have an active imagination, and that can generate anything from a homicidal clown,omnipresent spiders,imaginary stalkers, to a pinching fairy.
Not having a phobia clouds your understanding of having an irrational fear of something. But it remains just that… irrational; having no connotations with reality. That’s why it’s a sickness and is treated differently from one patient to another, after psychophysiological assessments are done.(patients grade their fears)
In conclusion. I think personality and personal background weigh more than actually having a fat brain. Thanks for the observation aLx.
All the best,
Chemikal
According to the book, The Gift of Fear, the #1 fear people have is shark attack, doesn’t make sense for a person in South Dakota; but phobias aren’t logical, based on intelligence or knowledge, it is based on a whacked & irrational notion, i.e. A person with coulrophobia might subconsciously believe that a clown will tie them-up and put them on train tracks with a train coming. Now, learning all about trains or clowns doesn’t cure, but letting the individual find what their own irrational link is does cure. That’s what they are doing with the woman in the video.
Thats strange(okay4now) I thought the number one fear was public speaking followed by death at number 2.
Both discussed in the book & why they are feared. Public speaking is feared because person feels they’ll be humiliated, loose their job & be on the streets.
http;//ie.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1hbSDDAfc
and 5 stars for you
let’s try this again
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=zV1hbSDDAfc
instead of typing the URL, copy & paste it from the address bar of your browser - it avoids errors like the semicolon in the first attempt…
Hobo Kelly was a friend (only in L.A. I guess), but a cool full-a-game clown: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=knnz9rBtW_E
Hobo Kelly was my best friends aunt. Her name was Sally Baker.
I meant to say that we lived in Riverside back then.
How cool is that! She always seemed like she was on your side, not like other b.s. shows. I’ll bet she was intelligent too.
I watched the show when I was 6 through 8 and loved it, although now I hardly remember it. I know Rich really liked her.
Dear Marina, First of all, I rate your video five stars. Your companion video clip about the woman’s fear had a hopeful ending. Perhaps she will overcome this.
I hope you will send us two kisses next time. (Yes, I miss your kiss!)
For your homework, the answer is no, I don’t suffer from coulrophobia. Also, I don’t know any scary clown stories. You are right about the Batman movies: the villain called the Joker was originally intended as a clown. This is the first video in which I saw you in bed! There’s an early scene in which you come out from under the covers in your white slip, and the scene after the clown appears, when you scream and hide under the covers. (I hope I never cause you to do that!) In the last scene of your video, you purse your lips as if you were going to send us a kiss. I expected a kiss from you. But instead, you slowly blinked your eyes!
How interesting that you posted a new video on Saturday night! I wonder if you “mass produce” five or six videos at a time, then do your editing of adding still photos and captions, and then release your videos, one at a time. I think I’d manage production that way! Whatever your method is, you produce wonderful videos! Your dear student, seesix CM6
At time 0:43, I hope that’s not Marina on the wedding night.
And that poor woman on the extra video.
and another for her stuffed,,,,,,thing. 
I think she’s really just pissed that the clown didn’t give her a ballon.
Fortunately, teacher has already taught us how to handle such a woman.
“GUARDE LOON”
Sister is right, she crazy.
“Coulrophobia comes from the Greek word kolon”.
Kolon or Colon,, and we all know what that’s full of…
It’s a Clown,,, laught, giggle, tickle.
Wait a sec. I get it now.
Marina does makeup right and then = beauty.
Clown’s do makeup wrong and then = scary.
Coulrophobia then = fear of those who do a bad job on their makeup.
Another mystery solved by Bozo and Ronald McDonald.
For your homework. If you have Coulrophobia, do you favor Whooper’s over Big Mac’s?
rofl :))
Some people think clowns are some other race. I dunno, as the illness description says, it’s an inexplicable fear. I agree, it’s just inexplicable
For your homework wetsuit5, should you choose to accept it, show me a man that’s just as terrified of a clown as that lady was. And not the halloween type clowns either. I’d pay to see that
Depends on the clown who’s serving: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=_UKLncvGxQ8
okay4now, i wanted to thank you for your kind words yesterday - they did not go unheeded…
have a great day…
Excellent come back!!
Phobias are suppose to be the easiest things of all psyche disorders to cure with bad consequences uncured. Imagine a clown getting onto an elevator for a birthday party on the top floor & the other man in the elevator is a professional boxer with coulrophobia. Who wins that one? Imagine the headlines: Champ on canvass after the 13th or Clown pummeled in mysterious homicide…
the invasion has amped up, i guess…
i absolutely will be spending less time here, as there are simply too many inane comments to wade through to have fun…
frankly i’m thinking some of this is the result of one user who others have already implied is off his rocker creating multiple accounts…’course i may be wrong, but i simply cannot read comments like the one below anymore…
y’all have a nice day…
oops
you haven’t replied to my e-mail on your YouTube account - this is the only reply you’ll have from me - if you want to say something, say it there…
Bye
cluck…
ctruck
I was just thinking the same thing a few days ago. It’s getting too busy here. I know that comments I make are part of the problem too, but at least I am trying to be clever. Some of these comments are complete waste of space.
‘eh, well, as Marina said, “The more successful you are the more negative comments you get… NO NEGATIVE comments means NO SUCCESS! I WELCOME the negative comments!“…
on YouTube, the comments, negative & positive, mean there’s a greater likehood that someone viewed her channel…and thus more revenue…that may be true here, i don’t know…
it’s hard to remember that, above all, this is a business…i used to play volleyball regularly, and one of my teammates always dragged us (not exactly kickin’ & screamin’) off to strip clubs for beer after the tournament - the most valuable lesson i learned there is that YOU may fall in love with a stripper, but at the end of the dance, it’s back to business for HER..
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have a great evening…
I just may go out in a blaze of glory. Or just go, we’ll see.
be careful.
I’m not sure I understand your point. I just feet like I spend too much time reading stupid comments, and then I get caught up in it and become one of the idiots.
yes, i agree - but the point is that from a business-view, all comment, good & bad, mean someone’s watching, and therefore the site is profitable…
so site management may not care whether there are good or bad comments, only that there ARE comments…
and controversy is bound to drive up views…
i am tell you a story marina….
once a time there were a boy 10 years.parents were guests at a party and child will sat alone at home with the dog.his parents went to the party k told to sleep early.the boy gone to bed early but could not catch in the sleep.stood up to drink water but a noise was heard from the bathroom.he looked next to him saw that the dog was not with him.then went to the bathroom and saw his dog killed and with bloodied in the mirror to say before the Sun will get a clown kill you son … when parents of children returned home found with a knife in the head the little boy…
good?
Great story, and well told. Coo coo coo coo
Haha Coby MUST really love you Marina, he’s always around your videos..!
When I was young i saw the movie “IT” with that clown, god, I didn’t get out of my house for 3 days cause I was afraid of every colorfull thing that existed around me!
By the way, are we 100% sure that this woman who has Coulrophobia is not fake? Cause to me, it looks TOO much :???:.
♥Manos♥
1. Pretend to be afraid of clowns.
2. ????
3. Profit!
She would profit if she suffers from Münchhausen syndrome.
Nice one Dr House. You’d better be taking the piss.
when i look to clown i look to stupid guy wast his time painting his face to look like idiot
do not watch if you suffer from coulrophobia
(tribute to stephen kings IT, pennywise the clown)
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=LwaRN6HZt1Q
I wasn’t sure if I had coulrophobia, so I went ahead and watched it. What do ya know? I’m ok. Thanks for helping me clear that up. That’s some good money saved from having to pay off a shrink’s bills
Hi, everyone. Here is felicity from Japan. The word “coulrophobia” reminds me of Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City. She was one of people who are scared of clowns. and Sex and the City movie is coming soon in Japan, I can’t wait,,,
you are right, Felicity…
Sex and the City always struck me as a chick show; i didn’t get into it…
of course, that could also be because i use rabbit-ears on the tv i inherited…
You still remember things about Carrie
I use that as an English text.
Sat next to one of the producers for Sex in the City in a bar/restaurant during a film festival, when I told her I’d heard of her show but hadn’t seen it, she said I should check it out; then I told her that I had not had TV for 7 years & she looked at me like I was the stupidest most back woods person she’d ever met…when the series came out on DVD (which I used) I watched almost every one, a good show—she was even in a few, but my episode with her was too funny…
Marina, did the KGB/MVD/FSU use clown disguises? If they did, no wonder you have a fear of clowns. No, sorry Marina, no clown stories.
Hi Marina, What about the origin and meaning of “Onomatopoeia”?
Thanks, Toni
In fact COULROPHOBIA is a fear of the FALSE. I personally do not find clowns funny and I hate circus. It’s all false. It’s not real life. We all know the clowns can be very sad. The biggest danger for humanes is to b