The cultural critic Mark Dery has theorized the postmodern archetype of the evil clown in " Cotton Candy Autopsy: Deconstructing Psycho-Killer Clowns " ( a chapter in his cultural critique The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink ).

The Red Skelton Festival, June 14, 2008, in Vincennes, featured the " Parade of a Thousand Clowns ," an Evening of Music, with Crystal Gayle, and clown seminars.

In 1806, the pantomime clown Joseph Grimaldi ( The Garrick of Clowns ) had performed his greatest success in Harlequin and Mother Goose ; or the Golden Egg at Covent Garden, and this was subsequently revived, at the new theatre.

* The Day The Clowns Cried Anecdotal narrative of the events, collected by a modern professional clown.

In Clowns of America International, " clown alley " is the name given to individual chapters, which function similarly to a union.

" Business " is the individual motions the clown uses, often used to express the clown's character.

* 1886 – 1910: Footit and Chocolat, a comic act of a white, authoritarian clown and a black, long-suffering Auguste, are very popular and often appear on the Moulin Rouge poster.

He recalled: " When I was five I wrote a song about the rain because I loved the San Francisco drizzles, and later I wrote about a dog because I couldn't have one, and a clown because my uncle was a circus performer, and when I was eight I wrote a song in the Saddle " about a cowboy in the desert watching the stars at night and thinking about God because I often looked at the stars and tried to picture Heaven ", inspired by seeing Roy Rogers and hearing Dale Evans give her testimony at the civic auditorium.

Working closely with very large, very powerful animals, rodeo clown are often injured seriously, and, sometimes, fatally.

In some venues, rodeo clowns wear clown makeup and some may also provide traditional clowning entertainment for the crowd between rodeo events, often parodying aspects of cowboy culture.

He often is depicted as a clown figure who descends to earth in the form of a beggar who uses his power to fight for the oppressed and needy.

Frequently, seniors are polled to nominate their classmates for " superlatives " or " class celebrities " ( such as " most likely to succeed ," " most athletic ," " most spirited " and " class clown "), are often published in the senior section.

The clown would often slip from Max's eye and go on an adventure, or sort of pull a prank on his creator.

The events produced by the Los Angeles branch often pushed the boundaries of pranksterism with several historic events, including " Cement Cuddlers ," an event where they filled a dozen teddy bears with cement and put them on toy store shelves, complete with bar-coded labels ; " Pet Cemetery Bingo "; " The Crucifixion of the Easter Bunny "; and " Klowns against Commerce ," which tested the limits to which a clown could abuse businessmen in downtown Los Angeles before being assaulted or arrested.

In the 1999, " Notes on the Script ", Stephen Schwartz wrote, " There are often misconceptions about the concept of the clown analogy in Godspell.

In the early stages of their career they would often wear a uniform of mechanic's jumpsuits along with masks such as Madonna, Richard Nixon, Darth Vader, an executioner's hood or plastic clown or gimp masks.

Often heard among crews was " crummy " ( as in a crummy place to live, not elegant, often too hot or too cold, and perhaps not especially clean ), " clown wagon ", " hack ", " waycar ", " dog house ", " go cart ", " glory wagon ", " monkey wagon " ( a term that indirectly insulted the principal functionary who rode therein, no doubt coined by an engineer ), " brain box " ( the conductor was supposedly the brains of the train, as opposed to the " hogger " or engineer, who was presumed to be pigheaded ), " palace ", " buggy " ( Boston & Maine / Maine Central ), " van " ( eastern and central Canada, usage possibly derived from the UK term for the caboose ), and " cabin ", or a variation heard at least on the Southern Railway, " cab ".

Some compatible fish often partnered with this fish are clown knifefish, pacu, oscars, plecostomus, jaguar cichlids, green terrors, gar, tinfoil barb, siamese tigerfish ( datnioides microlepis ) and any other semi-aggressive fish that cannot fit in the arowana's mouth.

English Elizabethan clown Will Kempe dancing a jig from Norwich to London in 1600A morris dance is a type of English folk dance, usually accompanied by music, and based on rhythmic stepping and the execution of choreographed figures by a group of dancers, often using implements such as sticks, swords, and handkerchiefs.

* Bubbles is often seen as an evil clown, inciting phobia in some young children who witnessed him, and is described as " somewhat unsettling ".

A real-world example is the clown car which often is used in the circus, in which an many clowns clamber out of a tiny automobile.

Sweet Tooth is represented by a tall mech with the signature flaming clown head, and often breaks out in his usual laughter throughout the game.

* Christopher Hitchcock: The reluctant clown of the group, Christopher often makes jokes specifically targeted towards the other members of the group ( April ( sexism ), Jalil ( racism ), and David ( antisemitism ); he does this to keep the others at a distance, so they won't get to know him.

He wears clown face paint and often changes the pattern.

He is often looked upon as a clown or a bother, as he gets angry easily and often causes trouble with his loud noise and clumsy ways.

) Grads not selected to tour were often given opportunities to perform in other capacities within the Feld Organization, sometimes were added to the show's clown alley at a later date, or became a member of any of a collection of other circuses that sought well-trained clowns for their shows.

Nowadays a fourth type, the tramp or hobo clown, is often recognized separately, even though, technically, it should be considered as another character clown.

He was given to public carousing and to acting the clown on the diamond ; ;

The character clown makeup is a comic slant on the standard human face.

The public nature of his trial made the imprint of his character on American culture noteworthy, including his association with his clown persona.

Using Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the carnivalesque, Jungian and historical writings on the images of the fool in myth and history, and ruminations on the mingling of ecstasy and dread in the Information Age, Dery asserts the evil clown is an icon of our times.

* Odd Bob the Clown, an evil alien clown based on the legendary Pied Piper of Hamelin from Sarah Jane Adventures that feeds on children's fears ( in the episode The Day of the Clown ).

* Gamzee Makara, an alien character from the webcomic Homestuck that is based on Juggalos and general evil clown cliches.

( As the Wikipedia article on Petrushka indicates, the Russian clown is in general a Pulcinella figure, but in this ballet he seems closer to a Pierrot.

One day, he was performing at a rabbi's convention when one joking rabbi squirted seltzer on him, washing off his clown makeup.

Emmett Leo Kelly ( December 9, 1898-March 28, 1979 ) was an American circus performer, who created the memorable clown figure " Weary Willie ", based on the hobos of the Depression era.

Kelly is depicted in a famous photograph, still in full clown make-up and costume, trying to extinguish the flames of the devastating Hartford Circus Fire that struck the Circus on July 6, 1944, and killed 167 people during the afternoon performance in Hartford, Connecticut.

Scholar David Carlyon has cast doubt on the " daring political jester ", calling historical tales " apocryphal ", and concluding that " popular culture embraces a sentimental image of the clown ; writers reproduce that sentimentality in the jester, and academics in the Trickster ," but it " falters as analysis.

Show: Malcom and Melvin and Babe, He Calls Me, focusing on a trumpet-playing cockroach named Malcom and his best friend, a clown named Melvin.

The clown and recent successful attempts from residents to save it from demolition have been featured in the pages of Weird NJ magazine, on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and in the Kevin Smith-directed film Clerks II.

The scene where Jack Lemmon and James Garner are chased from a fast food restaurant parking lot in a car and a giant clown sign crashes through their windshield was filmed at the former Long John Silver's, now a CelluarSales. com Verizon wireless franchise location, on Russ Avenue in Waynesville.

alt = A man attempts to hang onto a rope tied around a bucking bull, while a rodeo clown and several cowboys look on.

The ringmaster of an impoverished circus hires Chaplin's Little Tramp as a clown, but discovers that he can only be funny unintentionally, not on purpose.

I may already have done him an injustice in speaking of him ; I may have represented him as a kind of fool, with twin faces and twin reputations ; a hero on the other side of the Atlantic, a clown on this.

He has commented on The Troubles in Northern Ireland, stating that he believes both Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness to be very clever men, but also that he does not trust either of them as he believes Adams looks like a deputy headmaster and McGuinness looks like a clown without make-up.

While questioning Wyke, Doppler points out that the clown costume that Tindle was wearing when he was shot is missing, though the clown's mask is later found and put on the head of the plastic skeleton in the cellar.