Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Stamptown’ On Netflix, A Comedy Variety Showcase Unlike Anything You’ll Ever See On Netflix

What if you took a three-ring circus, but condensed it to one stage and had all of the humans clowning like wild animals? It might look something like the raucous, ribald, riotously vaudevillian showcase that is Stamptown, which somehow convinced Netflix to book and film their performance during this May’s Netflix Is A Joke festival in Los Angeles and now broadcast it to a global streaming audience. STAMPTOWN: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT? The Gist: The first thing you need to know is that Stamptown takes its name from Étampes, the French commune that’s served as home since 2011 to École Philippe Gaulier, the school that singlehandedly resurrected and reframed the sensibility of old-school clowning for a 21st century audience. Gaulier died earlier this year at 82. His most famous pupil is probably