Ha ha, said the clown

'Clowns work as well as aspirin to make you feel better, but twice as fast.'

- Groucho Marx (1890-1977), American comedian

Here come the clowns

A clown is a comic performer who usually appears between other acts in Western circuses. The acrobats amaze the audience, but the clowns make everyone laugh and forget their worries. A circus is not a circus without clowns.

Hello, Ronald

A clown must wear a brightly coloured wig, paint his face with big white eyes, oversized lips and heavy eyebrows, wear an outlandishly coloured costume, have a big red nose and wear enormous shoes. Clowns never speak. They fall over, squirt the audience with water, throw foam pies and push one another onto the floor.