In their colorful costumes and painted masks, Mexico's dancing clowns are a fusion of Catholicism and indigenous culture.

Psychologists think people find clowns creepy because they're unpredictable, they smile too much, and there's something ...

Coulrophobia is a rare phobia that makes a person afraid of clowns, making it stressful to see, imagine, or interact with them. While many people know that it exists, most link it to small children — ...

This week, dozens of clowns descended on Orlando, Florida for the 40th annual World Clown Association convention. But these aren't your scary clowns, the ones you might know from scary movies like "It ...

For the next few weeks, you won’t be able to swing a cat in Williamsburg without hitting a mime or a *buffon* or a Chaplinesque tramp, thanks to the miniscule Brick Theater’s New York Clown Theatre ...

When Stephen Sondheim wrote what became his most popular song, “Send in the Clowns,” for the 1973 musical “A Little Night Music,” he didn’t have a circus in mind. The “clowns” he was referring to were ...