A dark delicious tale of corporate identity crisis.
“Twenty-two quick deep and droll pages.”
Two restaurant chain clowns accidentally arrive at the same grand opening and with corporate insuperable anonymity, decide to rob a bank. Inspired by a real event involving two restaurant clowns who could not be prosecuted after an automobile accident.
It is also the story of a struggle for the soul of the company owner’s son.
A bad clown adventure that dishes out revenge, horror, and a demand for change.
Corporate and government bureaucracies meet at the table and the result is self-serving farce followed by just deserts.
“It’s a little bit… uh, mixed with… Well, no, it’s not like anything else. Except, maybe Bullwinkle.”
Burger Clown is fast food for thought, offering generous servings of black humor and exquisite irony.
Bleakly funny food fiction for those who can stomach it.
Originally a screenplay for a short film (one hour), Burger Clown was built on a single punch-line making fun of the writer's maxim: you know there will be change. It echoed the advertising slogan of a national fast food franchise at the time of the writing of the script.
An industry script reader said Burger Clown was the “second funniest script” she ever read. The first went on to become the movie, “What About Bob?”