Shakes the Clown (1991)
"Loved by children. Desired by women. Adored by bartenders everywhere."
ThumbScore
👍 64%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 43%
(RT: 43%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Julie Brown as Judy
Kathy Griffin as Lucy
Is Shakes the Clown good?
It's divisive. 64% audience score, estimated from 101 TMDB ratings. Critics scored it lower at 43%, but audiences disagreed.
Overview
Shakes plods about his duties as party clown, and uses all of his free time getting seriously drunk. Binky, another clown, wins the spot on a local kiddie show, which depresses Shakes even more, and his boss threatens him with unemployment if he can't get his act under control. Wikipedia ↗
