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Your ‘Sad Clown with the Golden Voice’ is here with a brand new set of emotive anthems, and this time he is packing his suitcase full of hope. Puddles is hopin’ for harmony and happiness around the planet. That’s a tall order for most, but this giant clown is willing to do his part one lingering hug at a time.
A veritable “Pagliacci by way of Pee-Wee Herman and David Lynch” (The AJC), Puddles Pity Party has over 619K YouTube subscribers and over 200 million views for indelible interpretations of classics by the likes of ABBA, Bowie, Cheap Trick, SIA and Queen along with his unforgettable rendition of the smoosh-up “Pinball Wizard/Folsom Prison Blues”. You may recognize him as a quarter finalist on Season 12 of America’s Got Talent and a contestant on the 2020 season of AGT Champions, as well as his viral video collaborations with Postmodern Jukebox. Puddles continues to wow audiences at his on-going residency at Caesars Palace, and he tours extensively in the US at legendary venues like the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, the Kennedy Center in D.C., The Vic in Chicago and the Troubadour in Los Angeles. Puddles has toured internationally through Europe, Canada, Australia and Mexico. He has also performed many times in the UK at Soho Theatre London and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Other worldwide festival appearances include the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Perth Fringe World, Melbourne International Comedy Fest, Just for Laughs Montreal, Belgium’s Gent Festival, Outside Lands (San Francisco), Festival Supreme (LA), Bumbershoot Festival (Seattle), Moontower Comedy Festival (Austin), and Bethlehem’s MusikFest.
“It seems like a parody. But when Puddles opens his mouth to sing, it’s beautiful. Operatic.”
The Boston Globe
“Fantastically brilliant…originality at its best.” - Simon Cowell
“His special effect is a textured voice laced with melancholy…what makes him transcend the trope is his vulnerability.” - The New York Times
“Wow…a perfect powerful avant-garde art piece…Genius.” - Penn Jillette
“Clever and often hysterically funny… (Puddles) is ideally suited to songs popularized by belters old and new like Tom Jones, Sia and Celine Dion, all of which he performs with tear-jerking bravura…” - LA Weekly
“What a voice he has. Brilliant man. Love him.” - Eric Idle
“Puddles Pity Party is the damndest thing…If I could sing like that, I’d never shut up.”
- Michael McKean
“I love him so much.” - Aaron Paul
“Few things in this world happier’n a sad clown that sings like a mellow-tone angel.”
- The Austin Chronicle
