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At several concerts, the singer balanced his tambourine on his head, adding a touch of mad clown to his rock swagger.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Mocha, who describes herself as a "fashion clown" and musical theatre lover, says it has taken her nearly a decade to get to this stage but feels it is the "right time".

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

A child could eat the fries and then go home and watch the clown who sold them solve a mystery.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

The actor also played fearsome clown Pennywise in the 1990 TV version of Stephen King's It, and was Long John Silver in 1996's Muppet Treasure Island.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

So now I was never going to grow into my clown clothes and I was stuck being a clown.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

Others—depicting grinning clowns, crying women and morphing objects and creatures, including human figures potted like plants—recall children’s drawings and John Tenniel’s illustrations for “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

"We are F1 drivers. We should not look like kids and clowns trying to ram into each other. That's not what F1 needs."

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

For the new movie, he wanted to pay homage to Hollywood’s silent clowns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

For all its clowns and pratfalls, it’s quietly one of television’s great food shows.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

I waited by the red clowns, just like you said, but you never came, you never came for me.

From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros

“Strangers clowned us,” former Ambassadors player Victoria Henson told me the other day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

His song Thick Of It, which features Trippie Redd, was nominated for song of the year - despite being something he was "clowned for".

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2025

Friends have clowned on Hernandez because of the cut, blowing up their phone with Edgar memes, some of them unkind, some of them hilarious, and some of them interesting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

Morale seemed high among Granite’s troops this week, as a short-range team clowned around despite being on duty long into the early morning hours as Kyiv’s air defenses took down 35 explosive Iranian-made Shahed drones.

From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2023

A year ago, me and Sneaky would’ve clowned him about it.

From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist

Rolincik is now a communications specialist, but clowning is still a big part of her life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Her colleagues and friends say clowning perfectly aligns with Smith’s natural curiosity and playfulness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

An audience expecting acrobatic basketball stunts and on-court clowning set to “Sweet Georgia Brown,” the Globetrotters’ signature song, was instead treated to a real, close-fought exhibition.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

But when it goes away, so do our nightly doses of Colbert’s affable clowning, the kind that irritates thin-skinned despots in a way other comics can’t quite match.

From Salon ● May 21, 2026

As the jury members straggled in, they were not clowning around or tap-dancing on the stage as jurors usually did.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli