Before the 20th century, clowns in American circuses were largely considered a form of adult entertainment. In my own research on the history of the 19th-century circus, I spend a lot of time in ...

When the clowns found out the circus was closing, they turned their red noses to each other for support. It had been a hard year already. Their centuries-old art form had been reduced to a ...

Our story begins as most good stories do: with a disgruntled clown quitting the circus after a contentious salary dispute. The year is 1857; the place, the scorching, sparsely populated plains of ...

Alan Digweed, 48, known as Tweedy the clown, has worked in the circus and shows across the world, and he has now been awarded the British Empire Medal. The entertainer, who is part of ...

Paul Jung, a circus clown who entertained millions of people during his nearly half-century career and whose face adorned Kellogg’s Sugar Smacks cereal boxes in the 1950s, grew up in Dayton ...