He died in Barcelona, where he lived, from cancer. Founder of the “new clown” movement, he was particularly known in France for his whimsical appearances on television.
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American clown and humorist Jango Edwards died in Barcelona (Spain) at the age of 73 from cancer on Friday August 4, his French press officer confirmed to AFP. He was particularly known in France for his crazy (and messy) interventions in the cult program of the French channel Canal + “Nowhere else”, alongside Antoine de Caunes, or on TF1 in “Coucou c’est nous”, with Christophe Dechavanne.
Born in 1950 in Detroit, Stanley Ted Edwards discovered the clown in the 1970s. He began to perform in Europe and had a triumph in France where he starred at Le Splendid for nine months between 1987 and 1988. He is the founder of the “new clown” movement and in 2009 created an institute dedicated to this practice in Barcelona, where he had been living for some years with his wife, Cristi Garbo.
The mayor of the Catalan city Jaume Collboni paid tribute to him on Saturday on Twitter, saluting “the master of clowns and this Barcelonan at heart”. “I’m sure he will continue to illuminate the lives of the souls who accompany him”, he added. Jango Edwards had just finished writing a book called The Clown’s Bibleaccording to his press secretary, Claire Gontaud.