Clown \Clown\ (kloun), n. [Cf. Icel. klunni a clumsy, boorish fellow, North Fries. kl["o]nne clown, dial. Sw. klunn log, Dan. klunt log, block, and E. clump, n.] 1. A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an ill-bred person; a boor. --Sir P. Sidney.
2. One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl.
The clown, the child of nature, without guile. --Cowper.
3. The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc.
The clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickle o'the sere. --Shak.
Clown \Clown\, v. i. To act as a clown; -- with it. [Obs.]
Beshrew me, he clowns it properly indeed. --B. Jonson.
The agency also says hundreds of thousands of clown dolls are being recalled because they pose a choking hazard.
When one of the leading ladies of the evening turns up dead, Earp and Mix are plunged into a web of intrigue that leads to the doorstep of studio head Alfie Alperin (Malcolm McDowell), once a silent movie clown.
"I was always the clown in high school, whereas Jean-Claude was the more serious one," Jean-Guy said.
Trimble plays drums and his farmer father, Gene, plays trumpet with a band of strolling players _ in clown gear _ at the Illinois fairgrounds every year.
Taking vital signs while wearing a clown nose or writing with a pen shaped like an eggplant can bring a smile to most people's faces, she said.
But what do you do after you get a degree in sociology and find that jobs are scarce? "I became a clown," says the 35-year-old Gordon, who grew up in Pittsburgh.
When asked for a summary of the play, the great clown Bert Lahr, who played Estragon on Broadway, said simply, "It's about two bums." The play's history in the United States mirrors Beckett's gradual acceptance by American critics and audiences.
A professional clown won't have to pay through the nose for leaving on a comic disguise at a recent sheriff's roadblock.
By this time the production's throbbingly theatrical mood has turned Torvald into a clown.
Larry Harmon, television's original Bozo the clown, released his list of the 1988's dubious achievers in 11 categories on Friday.
A woman shot at her front door by someone dressed as a clown has died and detectives say they have several leads in the search for her killer.
In addition to Elvis impersonations, Conley is also a professional musician and clown and runs a business that offers balloons for all occasions.
The show is televised to an estimated 28 million homes in 183 cities nationwide where kids can see Bozo or a locally franchised "clone clown" as Harmon likes to call them.
Who are these black and white characters talking and even joking together without having to clown and preach their way through a script of goofy one-liners punctuated by pious social-message sermonettes?
She scrawled a message on cardboard with a black crayon: "May God take your soul and place it in a white box full of our tears of pain." "He was always smiling," Ruben Lebron said, wiping a tear from his cheek. "He was the clown of the block.
Written by and starring clown Bill Irwin.
They called him "Brabbee." "He was happy, bright, and a clown.
Dinner tables graced with petunias in popcorn boxes filled the grassy ringside area that hours earlier had been mobbed with children eager to touch a clown or catch a juggler's misfired ball.
Since then, he has survived by donning a clown suit and juggling balls while standing on the backs of his two adolescent sons at a busy downtown intersection.
A fight turns as quickly into a joke, a clown with a pig-tail strums a lantern-lit love-song on a pianola. Musically, I found my first zarzuela an agreeable hotch-potch.
Cries the clown: "Ah!
He is greatly aided by some sterling performances, particularly by Martin, Shakur and Marlon Wayans as the neighbourhood clown.
It was entertaining. `Look at that clown.'
The activities coordinator at Escambia County Nursing Home is a clown.
He's a poignant clown, but without tears.
The former contractor and amateur clown told police that he had strangled all but one of his victims by wrapping rope around their necks and twisting it with a stick, and that he had had sex with some of his victims before killing them.
Twelve years ago, Tammy Parish was attending "regular-people college" when her husband-to-be went to clown college in Florida and won a job with Ringling.
Top winners of the dubious awards named after the famous TV clown were letter lady Vanna White, disgraced preacher Jimmy Swaggart, dethroned Olympian Ben Johnson, boxer Mike Tyson and talk-show melee victim Geraldo Rivera.
But I never got to show it because I got tagged as that clown.