Archive for Hospital Clowns

Laughter League

Video by Tiffany Riley

Laughter League is a 501c3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve the lives of the families we serve through the transformational power of laughter. Our healthcare clowning programs can be found around the country, improving lives one uplifted moment of laughter at a time.

A Hospital Clown

Video by Wild Women Healers

They say laughter is the best medicine. Laughter can’t cure your illness, but it can spread joy throughout the body and soul and definitely aid in the healing process. Take a look into the work Julie Pasqual does with Healthy Humor, visiting sick and injured kids as a Hospital Clown in Harlem Hospital.

CHEO patient learns magic tricks to entertain fellow patients

Anthony Farinon, 11, has had leukemia for three years and is doing well and is scheduled to stop chemo this summer. Inspired by hospital clown Molly Penny who visits young patients on a regular basis to raise their spirits he taught himself to do magic tricks by watching youtube. Video by Jean Levac/Postmedia

Child Life Zone

MK Show: Laughter League Makeover

This episode of the MK Show, MK gets a makeover as a… clown?
Seems like a natural job for MK! The Laughter League transforms MK into a legit medical clown. Medical clown? Wait? What? Yes, that’s right, Cook Children’s has medical clowns. Who doesn’t want to laugh and feel better? Sounds like a perfect job for MK!

This video was brought you by CLZ TV. A proud addition to the family of Cook Children’s in Fort Worth, Texas. CLZ TV and Sparklefly Studios are 100% funded by our generous donors who make life better for the children here at Cook Children’s Hospital by sponsoring a television network, activity center and music production studio allowing our patients and their family an interactive experience that enriches their journey while at Cook Children’s Hospital.

Medical Clown Project at CPMC

Videos by Calvin Ku

Laughter League

The first version of a video introducing the members of the Laughter League, a clown unit at Boston Children’s Hospital

The Gaza Clown: Ex-cancer patient brings laughter to sick kids

Video by TRT World

The healing powers of laughter – a former cancer patient brings smiles to the faces of children undergoing treatment in the Gaza Strip.

Clown Doctors Help Heal with Humor

They say that laughter is the best medicine and The Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit has been helping doctors by bringing humor into their hospitals since 1986. HooplaHa recently spent a day at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, Maryland with original Clown Care team member Bill Boots (Dr. Boots) and his partner Matthew Pauli (Dr. Spats). Members of the Clown Care team work with physicians to conduct ‘clown rounds,’ their own version of medical rounds, where the healing power of humor is always the prescription!

Bun Fun International Clown Festival

Organiser: Red Nose Production Limited

Friendly Clown ‘Lotsy Dotsy’ A “Rock” For Young Patients

Video by CBS Miami
CBS Miami’s Rudabeh Shahbazi reports.