Professional clowns are defending their work as "ambassadors of joy" amid fear and uncertainty over alleged sightings of people dressed as clowns and terrorizing children in the Southeast.

When it comes to safety, Diane Knight doesn’t clown around. Knight is careful to check who is hiring Cloe the Clown and the locations where her clown persona is performing. The Aurora woman s… ...

Red noses. White painted faces. Floppy oversized shoes. Knives. Stalking. Threats of bodily attacks. The horror. The horror. Creepy clowns — creatures out of a million waking and dozing ...

For professional, legitimate clowns, Bozo-phobia is no laughing matter. They remember when a "clown sighting" was something to celebrate, because it meant the circus was coming to town or that ...

Clowns and jesters in video games walk a strange line between comic relief and unsettling menace. Some make us laugh. Others make us grind our teeth, and a little manage to do both while juggling ...