Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LOCKPORT — Mike Perry fell in love with clowning as a youngster in Amherst and ran off to join the circus when he was of age. On ...

By Anna-Sophie JürgensFor centuries, clowns occupied an ambiguous cultural position. They were comic figures, but also disruptive ones: tricksters who mocked authority and social conventions, ...

President Donald Trump’s decision to turn the White House into a UFC arena drew fierce backlash, with D.C. residents branding the taxpayer-funded spectacle a “circus” and a “clown show.” The event, ...

Circus clowns come in all sizes, but they have to know how to perform big and little. Big, as in larger-than-life pratfalls that pull laughs from the last rows in an arena. Little, as in making a ...

There are different types of clowns: kids’ entertainer clowns, circus clowns, adult cabaret clowns, and even clowns who do their whole act naked, or so we’ve heard. “If you’re a clown and you see a ...