Clown Doctors

The Humour Foundation's core project is Clown Doctors, touching the lives of over 60 000 people every year. The focus is children's hospitals, and Clown Doctors are now part of hospital life in all major children's hospitals around Australia. Caring clowns also cheer up adult patients and play a role in palliative care.

The healing power of humour has been recognized since antiquity. Everyone knows that 'laughter is the best medicine', but international research has found real physiological and psychological benefits to patients. Ambassador Clowns have also visited world trouble spots such as East Timor and Afghanistan.

The Humour Foundation is a charity dedicated to promoting the health benefits of humour. International research has found psychological and physiological advantages from doses of humour. Humour is an effective coping strategy. It can relieve fear and stress and aid recovery.