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 ...

Radford traces bad clowns all the way to ancient Greece and connects them to court jesters and the Harlequin figure. He notes that Punch, an evil puppet who frequently smacks his partner Judy with ...