The Clown's Prayer is a poem or prayer that comedians of various sorts use for inspiration. There have been several poems that have gone by that name.
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Author unknown
The original author of this poem is unknown. There are several variations on this poem. Chris Farley (from Saturday Night Live and Tommy Boy) was known to have carried this prayer with him in his wallet. It commonly includes the following four verses:
Occasionally the following verse is inserted between the third and fourth verses above:
Clowns International
Clowns International hosts a service every year on the first Sunday in February at the The Clowns' Church in London, and they recite a version of the Clown's Prayer then.
Walter Grogan
This version was written by Walter Grogan and published in The Pall Mall Magazine in 1907.
References
The Clown's Prayer Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA