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”[[AVN (magazine)|AVN]]” noted that ”Ass Clowns” had a “very, very sharp edge” and opined that all of the film’s sex scenes were “sick and twisted” and intended to “provoke” as well as “titillate” before giving the film a score of 3½/5.<ref> {{cite web|url = https://avn.com/movies/ass-clowns-19462|title=””Ass Clowns”|date = 1 March 2001|website = avn.com|publisher = [[AVN (magazine)|AVN]]|access-date = 18 December 2025}} </ref> Peter van Aarle of Cyberspace Adult Video Reviews found most of the sex scenes in ”Ass Clowns” to be “pretty hot” but criticized the roughness of others and described [[Anthony Crane]] and [[Kendra Jade Rossi]]’s scene as being “too disgusting to review” before giving the film a score of 7.60 on a scale of 6.00/10.00.<ref> {{cite web|url = https://www.cavr.com/w00a6671.htm|title=””Ass Clowns”|last = van Aarle|first = Peter|date = 27 November 2000|website = cavr.com|publisher = Cyberspace Adult Video Reviews|access-date = 18 December 2025}} </ref> In a subsequent review of the film’s DVD rerelease, van Aarle gave ”Ass Clowns” a new, more lenient grade of 8.20/10.00 and wrote, “Thomas Zupko shows in this movie that he has the potential for greatness.”<ref name = “CAVR”/> |
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| Directed by | Thomas Zupko |
| Written by | Thomas Zupko |
| Produced by | Thomas Zupko |
| Edited by | Sean Finn Paul Norman Slain Wayne |
| Music by | Juz Maintain Toby the Viking |
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Extreme Associates |
| Distributed by | Extreme Associates |
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141 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Ass Clowns is a 2000 pornographic film written and directed by Thomas Zupko and produced and distributed by Extreme Associates. The film consists of “a series of vignettes based around parental, societal, and religious abuse” and stars Taylor St. Clair, Kendra Jade Rossi, Kat Langer, Amber Woods, Michael Stefano, and Brian Surewood.[1] Ass Clowns was followed by three sequels, the second of which, 2002’s Ass Clowns 3, was one of the films for which the United States Government prosecuted Extreme Associates for obscenity in the 2005 trial United States v. Extreme Associates, Inc.[2]
Ass Clowns was shot on DV and was described by director Thomas Zupko as being more “down and dirty” and not as “story driven” as his previous film, In the Days of Whore, which was also produced and distributed by Extreme Associates. According to Zupko, he hoped to use Ass Clowns to “expose all of the frauds, kooks, and hypocrites on this god-forsaken planet, including priests, cops, politicians, the bourgeois, and most important of all, 99% of the directors and producers in pornography.”[1]
Ass Clowns was released direct-to-video by Extreme Associates on November 15, 2000.[1] The film was rereleased on DVD, with footage having been cut out,[3] in May 2002.[4] It was out of print by May 2006.[5]
AVN noted that Ass Clowns had a “very, very sharp edge” and opined that all of the film’s sex scenes were “sick and twisted” and intended to “provoke” as well as “titillate” before giving the film a score of 3½/5.[6] Peter van Aarle of Cyberspace Adult Video Reviews found most of the sex scenes in Ass Clowns to be “pretty hot” but criticized the roughness of others and described Anthony Crane and Kendra Jade Rossi‘s scene as being “too disgusting to review” before giving the film a score of 7.60 on a scale of 6.00/10.00.[7] In a subsequent review of the film’s DVD rerelease, van Aarle gave Ass Clowns a new, more lenient grade of 8.20/10.00 and wrote, “Thomas Zupko shows in this movie that he has the potential for greatness.”[4]
Author Benjamin Radford included a passage on the Ass Clowns series in his 2016 book Bad Clowns. Radford fleetingly describes a scene from Ass Clowns 3 before succinctly stating, “I’ll spare the gentle reader further elaboration.”[2]
Ass Clowns placed second in the High Society list Top Ten Videos of the Year (2000).[8]
