Find 9 professional clowns available in South Africa for birthday parties and children's events. With 12 reviews from real clients and an average rating of 5 out of 5, these entertainers cover comedy acts, magic shows and interactive performances.
These party clowns offer balloon modelling, puppet shows and audience participation games ideal for keeping children entertained. Prices start from R1,600 with an average booking cost of R4,500 for standard performances.
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Professional clown entertainers bring joy and laughter to children's events with colorful performances combining comedy, magic and interactive entertainment. These skilled performers create memorable experiences through puppet shows, balloon sculpting and audience participation games that engage children of all ages.
Party clowns offer full entertainment packages including traditional comedy routines, modern magic shows and creative workshops. Many performers specialize in educational entertainment that combines fun with learning, while others focus on high-energy shows featuring music, dancing and group activities that keep entire parties engaged from start to finish.
Rates for clown entertainers in South Africa currently range from about R1,600 to R41,500 depending on performance duration and specific requirements. Standard birthday party shows averaging one hour typically cost R4,500, with extended performances and additional services like face painting or balloon workshops available at premium rates. Most performers include basic props and sound equipment in their standard fees.
The average price is R4,500 (ZAR), with most priced from R1,600 to R41,500. Contact the supplier you like for an accurate quote.
Chocolate the magician
"Chocolate performs regularly at our restaurant in Melville. Tables that get him stay twice as long and spend three times as much. He's an atmosphere multiplier. We won't book anyone else."
Gabriel Granado
"Granado put on a great show for us. He came very well prepared. He did a mix of comedy and magic, which was perfect. He had our group laughing and laughing while at the same time amazed by his magic tricks. Our group was 10 people and Granado had a great variety of tricks so that multiple people had different favorite tricks and moments, mine was the yellow bandana! He communicated very well prior to the show and I would highly recommend him for any group gathering! Gracias Granado!"
Kokorikochakalakabombom
"amazing smile, absolute unit of a man, 100% recommend, only accepts pay in pancakes."
MIMIRICHI Clowns
"The first time I saw Mimirichi, last year at the Edinburgh Fringe, I knew I would have to put them at the core of my fiendish and cunning plan for world domination. Mimirichi would leave everyone weak with laughter and begging me for more of the fun, and, of course, I would be a benign autocrat, sending Mimirichi out on a world-wide mission to sponsor their own brand of warm fuzziness and community spirit. In this cold, competitive world Mimirichi liberates hearts and minds and promotes participation and collaboration. The awful thing is that they are only at the Riverside Studios for TWO nights (until 1st July)! Please, please, rush down to Hammersmith and secure tickets for yourself, all your family (especially menopausal aunts and grumpy old men), your evil-minded neighbours, your traffic wardens and rouge traders, your bank manager and your boss.
The four-man creative team at the heart of the mad, mad world of Mimirichi are superb physical performers who start off with some simple slapstick and build to a breathtaking break-dancing finale. But their secret lies in their generosity and the way they engage us with their world. This is a place where the imagination can transform paper into anything we want it to be and half of the fun is the delight in collaborating with them to make these transformations happen. It is a clown theatre for young and old alike, because it's full of the familiar and everyday. Mimirichi's Paper World is peopled with recognizable characters. There's the little guy with the broom overwhelmed by litter bugs on the rampage. And perhaps it's the same voracious paper-munching clown evolving into a despot who gets himself crowned with pomp and circumstance, and, to push the point home, also devours handbags and jackets from among the audience.
I guarantee that by the end of the 85-minute show you will be shouting, screaming, pelting each other with paper, passing great swathes of the stuff back and forth and even eager to step onto the stage and be transformed into a goal-keeper for a paper football penalty or a beauty queen.
At the core of this age-old humour there is an odd but recognizable logic at work, an absurd logic, or even illogical logic, perhaps, but once we accept the rules it all makes perfect sense (something like when Charlie Chaplin's starving tramp cooks his boots and eats them with perfect table manners and social etiquette). Mimirichi's gags are reminiscent of these extended comic scenarios from the Commedia lazzi and the silent movies. For example, a man desperate to find a public urinal is given increasingly complicated directions by a street cleaner in which each round of mimed instructions seems to take the longed for relief further away on a journey that includes swimming and punting across a river.
Mimirichi put us in touch with a part of ourselves we don't pay much attention to these days. They belong to a long tradition of European clowning that includes the great zannis of Commedia dell'Arte, Chaplin and Keaton, Max Wall, Mayall and Edmondson and so on. This is an eternal and universal form of clowning, the carnivalesque, the Lords of Misrule, rather than the sanitized comic turns fed to children in 20th century circuses. In days gone by, this type of carnival event was considered dangerous by princes and municipalities, so that the travelling performers where often borderline outlaws. Happily, Mimirichi are completely legit, but they still can show us a few things that authoritarian rulers feared: that what usually passes for logic is suspect, and that a creative and imaginative response can present alternative solutions to traditions we take for granted. Perhaps, we should send them to the G8 Summit.
If you cannot make it down to the Riverside Studios tonight go instead to a tattooist and have MIMIRICHI inscribed on your forehead, so that you will recognize their name should they come to a venue close to you at a future date."
Tarekito Clown
"nominated for the CIRCUBA International Festival 2021 for having a unique musical number of its kind"
Chocolate the magician
"Chocolate performed during our cocktail hour at a wedding venue in Magaliesburg. While guests waited for photos, he kept everyone entertained, relaxed, and laughing. So many guests asked for his card."
