CLaroL the CLown wants someone to fill her oversized shoes after retirement
CBC
When Carol Crooks — better known to some as CLaroL the CLown — was mulling retirement recently, she settled on January as a good time to close the curtains on her entertaining career.
But in the middle of what she described as her "best party" she realized the time was now.
"This one, I don't know what it was, everybody, the parents, the grandparents, the guests, the neighbours who weren't even in the party were hanging over the fence and the kids, it was like a gift from God," she said on CBC Radio's Windsor Morning Wednesday.
"This is what you do, why you do it. To entertain everybody, make everybody laugh. I left, and I was walking on a cloud, and I said, 'You know what I don't know if it can get any better.'"
And so it was done — 35 years of entertaining kids and adults alike coming to an end.
Crooks said she caught the entertaining bug as a kid, doing impressions for her family and their friends when her parents had parties.
She had her own repertoire of go-to gags, but had to fight through shyness to get that out.
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