Vulgar (film)

Vulgar
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Bryan Johnson
Produced by	Monica Hampton Scott Mosier Kevin Smith
Written by	Bryan Johnson
Starring	Brian O'Halloran Bryan Johnson Jerry Lewkowitz Ethan Suplee Matthew Maher
Music by	Ryan Shore
Cinematography	David Klein
Edited by	Bryan Johnson Scott Mosier
Distributed by	Lions Gate Entertainment
Release date	April 26, 2002
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Vulgar is a 2000 American black comedy thriller film written and directed by Bryan Johnson, produced by Monica Hampton for Kevin Smith's View Askew Productions, and features multiple actors from the View Askewniverse (films sharing the same characters and location of New Jersey including Clerks, Clerks II, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and Dogma). The film is the tale of the mascot, "Vulgar", featured in the logo of View Askew Productions. Though not a Kevin Smith film, it stars many actors often in View Askew Productions, such as Smith himself as a gay TV executive, Jason Mewes as a faulty gun dealer, director Bryan Johnson in a supporting role as Syd, Will's one and seemingly only friend, and Brian O'Halloran as the lead Will/Vulgar.

Will Carlson is a 20-something loser who lives in a rundown neighborhood in New Jersey, where he ekes out a living as a birthday party clown in order to pay the rent for his abusive mother's nursing home and the rent on his rundown house. Despite the difficulties of the job, clowning is Will's one escape from the realities of his miserable existence: Will genuinely likes kids, and takes great joy from making them happy on their birthdays.

Struggling to make ends meet, but not wanting to give up his dream job, Will comes up with the idea to be a "bachelor party clown." Will's idea is that men throwing bachelor parties can hire him as well as a stripper; Will enters the room prior to the "real" entertainment, wearing clown makeup and lingerie, tricking the bachelor into thinking that there was a mix-up and a gay clown stripper has been sent in lieu of a female one. Will invents the persona of Vulgar the Clown (after his friend Syd tells him that the entire idea is "vulgar") and solicits himself in the want-ads. Before long, he is hired to appear at a bachelor party being held at a nearby motel.