This skit is presented here with two clowns, but you could make a few adjustments, and make it into a solo skit with asking the kids questions about the props used. Deliver it with a snappy manner and keep it moving and you’ll have a very funny routine.

 

Clown 1 – (enters carrying an open present and pulls out an egg beater.)

Clown 2 –  What’s that?

Clown 1 – It’s my Christmas present. (or birthday gift)

Clown 2 – That’s beautiful! That’s lovely!  That’s awesome! … What is it?

Clown 1 –  It’s a beautiful, lovely awesome, . . .uh (perplexed) – thing-a-ma-bob!

Clown 2 – Thing-a- ma- who?

Clown 1 – Bob!

Clown 2 – Who?

Clown 1 – Bob!

Clown 2 – Who’s Bob?

Clown 1 – How would I know?  I’ve only lived here 5 years.

Clown 2 – It sure is nice.  . . . What is it used for?

Clown 1 – (also confused, but confident) Well, it’s a precision made, highly portable, very practical, thing-a-ma-gig. It has hundreds of uses!

Clown 2 – Cool, Can you show me?

Clown 1 – Sure, just as soon as I see where to plug it in. ..Wait, this version has an automatic crank.  (starts to spin the egg beater – clown 1 is proud of new contraption).

Clown 2 – Great!  You got it started, now show me the good stuff!  What’s it do?

Clown 1 –  Well, uh, sometimes you have a itchy spot on your back.

Clown 2 – I do I do!

Clown 1 –  It’s great for getting those hard to reach spots.

(Clown 1 scratches #2’s back a bit – two is happy! Mug it up like a cat getting a scratch).

Clown 2 – I’ll bet it’s great for curling hair! (clown 2 takes it and implies curling clown 1’s hair.)

Clown 1 – I like it!  It’s also a unicycle for the circus parade (pretend to ride it).

Clown 2 – It’s also great for making a breeze to blow out birthday candles!  (demo as if spinning a breeze and blowing out invisible candles on a cake)

Clown 1 – It makes a wonderful boat motor!, (demonstrate – pretending clown 1 is in a boat with the motor spinning behind.)

(They now go frantic and faster!)

Clown 2 – (hold to ear and dangle) – Joan Collin’s earrings!

Clown 1 – Awesome shaver for dad! (do a quick demo shaving with it)

Clown 2  – Pizza cutter!

Clown 1 – Dust buster!

Clown 2 – Lawn mower!

Clown 1 – Dog trimmer!

Clown 2 –  Egg beater!

(They look at each other then both say, )

Clown 1 & 2 –  Nah, it’ll  never work.

Clown 1 – What do you kids think?

(Kid’s say – “it’s an egg beater.”)

Clown 1 – An egg beater? No way! – really?  You have a bowl of eggs and you bead them with it. (holding it upside down you pretend to use it to beat eggs in an imaginary bowl and with the handle.

Clown 2 – I heard some one call it a mixer, a hand mixer?

Clown 1 – For mixing hands?  No thank you.

Clown 2  – These kids have some really good ideas. But it would be nice to have a book that shows how to make it work right.

Clown 1  – I guess I’ll have to send it back.  Wait! It came with a book!

Clown 2 – Check in the box   Maybe the book that came with it will help us to learn how to use it the right way.

(They find the gift box and pull out a book.)

Clown 1 – Wow reading is great!

Clown  2 – One problem, I can’t read this book because it’s printed upside down.

Clown #1 (realizes that clown #2 is holding it upside down – takes the book and chases other clown with it.) That’s upside down!!!

This original skit was written by Norm Barnhart

 

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