As the song goes, “Be a clown, be a clown, the whole world loves a clown.” But does it, really? Throughout the years, legendary clowns such as Bozo, Howdy Doody's Clarabell and comedian Red Skelton ...

ANAHEIM – A couple juggled balls and bowling pins. One cracked whips while precariously balancing on stilts. Another voraciously “ate” a long, carnival-style blue balloon. The eight applicants who ...

These painted performers drew a strong emotional reaction. Clowns are supposed to be makers of mirth, messengers of merriment, producers of pratfalls, fabricators of frivolity. And, yet, as Stephen ...

Think of it as Comic-Con for clowns. That’s how Randy Christensen describes the World Clown Association’s International Convention, which plants its floppy shoes Monday through March 16 at the Crown ...

As advance clowns for the circus, which hails from Hugo, Okla., they will double the 10,000 miles the circus travels each year to visit 200 cities, she said. They arrive two weeks in advance, driving ...

NORFOLK — Rob Lok surveys the crowd for a moment, adjusts his bulbous, red nose, and prepares to dump his bag of classic tricks. A clown’s tools spill out on the floor in a jumbled heap: a rubber ...

Kawika Stanton, a Ringling Bros. clown, helped gauge the talent during auditions for the circus’ Clown College Wednesday at American Airlines Center in Dallas. Nathan Hunsinger - Staff Photographer ...

•500 pounds of snow-cone ice eaten in each city •500 pounds of sugar for cotton candy in each city Source – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Get ready for the world to turn upside down when the ...

When Stephen Sondheim wrote what became his most popular song, “Send in the Clowns,” for the 1973 musical “A Little Night Music,” he didn’t have a circus in mind. The “clowns” he was referring to were ...

I’m not suggesting entering our local political arena, though I’m sure some would argue we always could use a few more bozos in town for comic relief. All kidding aside, I’m talking real, ...

The school bus rolled up to a retreat center on a lake in rural Minnesota, and out stepped a clown. And another. And then another. They just kept coming. It wasn't a mega-sized clown car gag, but the ...