“Who Needs This Clown?”: Barbra Streisand Mocks Republican Nominee in Sondheim Parody

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News “Who Needs This Clown?”: Barbra Streisand Mocks Republican Nominee in Sondheim Parody Streisand sang a parody of Stephen Sondheim's “Send in the Clowns” at a fundraiser for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

By Andrew Gans

September 10, 2016

Barbra Streisand Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for BSB

Entertainment icon Barbra Streisand, who recently completed a nine-city concert tour, performed several songs at a September 9 fundraiser at New York's Cipriani for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, according to the Washington Post.

Among the tunes was a version of Stephen Sondheim's “Send in the Clowns” featuring all-new lyrics that mocked Republican nominee Donald Trump. Lyrics included “Something's amiss/I don't approve/If he were running the free world/Where would we move?/Name me a town./Just who is this clown?”

Click here to read the complete lyrics.

"Send in the Clowns," perhaps Sondheim's best-known song, is from his 1973 musical A Little Night Music. Rufus Wainwright also performed at the LGBT for Hillary Gala.

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