Nina Conti Clowning Around

Documentary

Documentary

Over two years, award-winning ventriloquist Nina Conti donned a red nose and swapped comedy clubs for one of the hardest stages of all; entertaining children in hospitals. Devastated by the discovery that her puppet Monkey can't perform in hospitals unless he can be boil-washed, Nina tries to go it alone with only a red nose, a few misshapen balloon animals and some slightly disappointing magic tricks. Then there are the difficulties she encounters when faced with clown phobia. Did Nina raise a laugh, or cry the tears of a clown? Follow her moving experience in this 60' documentary, as seen on 4.