[pohl]

Another related word is "assclown" — which, as far as I can tell, was created accidentally when actor David Herman delivered a line of dialoge with emphasis on the wrong syllable while filming Office Space.

He was meant to call Michael Bolton a "no-talent-ass clown", but delivered the line as "no-talent ass-clown".

Or something like that. And now assclown is a thing.

[Apocryphon]

Confirmed by OP:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-does-assc...

[OJFord]

Not that it was not the intended reading though, unless I'm missing it, just that the term likely came from the film?

[wavefunction]

nah Office resonates because it MIRRORED real life en vérité, not the other way around. That's always been Mike Judge's strength, casting the actual as fantastic as it really is for better or often worse.

we were saying assclown or azzclown before the movie but it hit so sweetly thus

[sph]

https://xkcd.com/37/

[atoav]

Of course there is an xkcd about it

[Tao332]

Vintage xkcd from the grid paper days.

[julianlam]

Am I old?

[LordDragonfang]

>(October 28, 2005)

[PantaloonFlames]

I always thought of it as separated by a slash.

Ass/clown.