The old clown photos in TASCHEN's The Circus. 1870s–1950s are incredible. A lot of the clowns look more fantastical than ...

Calliope Clowns work on a skit just outside of their group’s garage bay behind the Jaffa Shrine Center. Pictured (from left) are Ed “Jellybean” Kertes, Jonathan “Darby” Holmes, Fred “Pauli the Pirate” ...

The show was a little late in starting Thursday at Circus Circus, so Rocco the Clown stepped in. The performer didn’t say a word when he went onstage. He just started using his hands to urge the ...

LYNNWOOD — At most jobs, people get in trouble for goofing around, but that’s how Bruce Johnson makes his living. For decades, he dazzled crowds at traveling circuses and amusement parks as “Charlie ...

This weekend brings a memorabilia-packed Bozo’s Circus jamboree at Billy Corgan’s Highland Park tea shop Madame Zuzu’s. Ahead of the event, WBEZ asked Chicagoans about their most memorable Bozo the ...

Peggy Williams, 72, spent a decade performing for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus as a clown, and another decade working on the circus’s administration side. She was among the first class of ...