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Naked Clown Calendar: So Wrong, but for a Good Cause

by Jordan Yerman | September 25, 2008 at 06:54 am

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The twisted minds at the Clown Conservatory have found something even more disturbing for clowns to do than hide under your bed and grab your ankle. If you read the headline, you probably know what's coming next, but I'm trying to delay the inevitable...

I shudder whilst typing this, but clowns can also strip for nude photographs. In this case, though, the clowns are using their evil powers for a good cause: a charity calendar.

Graduates of San Francisco's Clown Conservatory Class of 2008 have stripped down to their birthday suits to make a 2009 Naked Clown Calendar, a joyful and humourous work of art the clowns hope to sell in honor of a beloved mentor paralysed from the effects of multiple sclerosis (MS) and others stricken with the disease.

These aren't the usual photos of clowns at kids' parties or falling out of cars. No, they're photos of clowns tumbling though the air, performing songs in the park or flying out of cannons — with pies and top hats hiding the naughty bits.

Sales of the calendar will help raise money for the Judy Finelli Fund, a non-profit organization set up through the Circus Center. The fund works with the MS Foundation of Florida to do advocacy and research. It also will provide scholarships to people with MS who want to do circus arts

"It's done with a smile, it's done with a wink-wink-nudge-nudge kind of thing," Finelli says of the calendar, which she clearly enjoys.