Seymour
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Seymour
Mace used to be a clown. In fact what he doesn't know about clowning
isn't worth knowing. But he's put the grease paint, giant shoes and
red nose behind him and is now forging himself a career as a different
type of clown - a stand-up comedian.
"I
never really considered stand-up as a kid as there was never any
talk of it in school, " says Seymour.
"Some
of my heroes in life are people like Eric Morecambe, Tommy Cooper,
Tony Hancock and when I step back and think that I'd doing the same
job as Tommy Cooper, I think it's stunning."
On
stage Seymour put in an almost manic performance of borderline surreal
observations - "Newcastle is famous for its big student population.
There's only two of them but they're the size of King Kong".
Off
stage he's naturally funny. He once won a glass trophy for stand-up
and I asked him if he still had it, "I think my Gran's got
it. Because she likes polishing stuff and I don't".
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- Seymour Mace
Here's
Johnny! 
