In my own research on the history of the 19th-century circus, I spend a lot of time in archives where I regularly come across vintage photos of clowns. Now, I don't consider myself afraid of ...

On July 6, 1944, a blaze broke out at a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey show in Hartford, Connecticut. At least 167 ...

A professional clown spoke out against comparing President Donald Trump and members of his administration to clowns in a ...

After a 6-year hiatus, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus is returning in a revived show that no longer features animal acts. (Photo Illustration: Yahoo News; Photos: Getty Images) ...

In a new op-ed for The Washington Post titled, “Donald Trump is not a clown. I should know,” Tim Cunningham, a board member for Clowns Without Borders, an organization that works to share joy and ...

A clown who has performed for decades has told of his surprise at being recognised in the New Year Honours list. Alan Digweed, 48, known as Tweedy the clown, has worked in the circus and shows ...

Tim Cunningham is the board president of Clowns Without Borders, a nonprofit that performs clown shows for communities facing hardship.

They include Peggy Williams, the first female graduate of Clown College, and "circus chaplain" Father Jerry Hogan.

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 ...

Borrowing comedic traditions from the blackface minstrel show, circus clowns used puns, non sequiturs and exaggerated burlesque humor.