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Bad clowns--those malicious misfits of the midway who terrorize, haunt, and threaten us--have long been a cultural icon. This book describes the history of bad clowns, why clowns go bad, and why many people fear them. Going beyond familiar clowns such as the Joker, Krusty, John Wayne Gacy, and Stephen King's Pennywise, it also features bizarre, lesser-known stories of weird clown antics including Bozo obscenity, Ronald McDonald haters, killer clowns, phantom-clown abductors, evil-clown panics, sex clowns, carnival clowns, troll clowns, and much more. Bad Clowns blends humor, investigation, and scholarship to reveal what is behind the clown's dark smile. This book describes the history of bad clowns, why clowns go bad, and why many people fear them.

Clowns --- Circus performers --- Entertainers --- Fools and jesters --- Comedians --- History. --- Clowns.

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By its very nature the clown, as represented in art, is an interdisciplinary phenomenon. In whichever artform it appears – fiction, drama, film, photography or fine art – it carries the symbolic association of its usage in popular culture, be it ritual festivities, street theatre or circus. The clown, like its extended family of fools, jesters, picaros and tricksters, has a variety of functions all focussed around its status and image of being “other.” Frequently a marginalized figure, it provides the foil for the shortcomings of dominant discourse or the absurdities of human behaviour. Clowns, Fools and Picaros represents the latest research on the clown, bringing together for the first time studies from four continents: Europe, America, Africa and Asia. It attempts to ascertain commonalities, overlaps and differences between artistic expressions of the “clownesque” from these various continents and genres, and above all, to examine the role of the clown in our cultures today. This volume is of interest for scholars of political and comic drama, film and visual art as well as scholars of comparative literature and anthropology.

Clowns in literature --- Fools and jesters in literature --- Tricksters in literature --- Clowns --- Theater --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Clowns. --- Clowns in literature. --- Fools and jesters in literature. --- Theater. --- Tricksters in literature. --- Trickster in literature --- Tricksters as literary characters --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Modernism (Literature) --- Post-postmodernism (Literature) --- Clowns as literary characters --- Circus performers --- Entertainers --- Fools and jesters --- Comedians --- History --- Fools and jesters. --- Court fools --- Jesters --- Courts and courtiers --- Favorites, Royal --- Joking

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Traces the history of comic stereotype of the Black performer and explains how it was finally eradicated.

Popular culture --- Sambo (Fictitious character) --- African American entertainers --- African Americans in the performing arts. --- Fools and jesters --- Stereotypes (Social psychology) --- United States --- Race relations.

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Wird der Begriff des "Königs" heute vorwiegend in einem engeren politischen Sinne verstanden und gebraucht, so war dies im ausgehenden Mittelalter anders. Denn neben den bekannten 'politischen' Königen existierten hier noch zahlreiche 'andere' Könige. Sie standen Berufsgruppen vor, führten Genossenschaften an oder wurden im Rahmen wiederkehrender Zeremonien und Bräuche zu Festkönigen gekrönt. Spielleute und Herolde, Prostituierte und Händler hatten ebenso ihre Könige wie Bogenschützen oder Adelsgesellschaften. Dabei ging es jedoch nicht um Rituale der Verkehrung oder gar um Akte der Auflehnung und Rebellion. Auch diese Könige besaßen klare Funktionen und Privilegien, eine handfeste Machtstellung innerhalb ihrer Gruppe und wurden darin von den Autoritäten akzeptiert, ja teils erst eingesetzt. Der vorliegende Band hält erstmals eine systematische Zusammenschau dieses bisher unbeachtet gebliebenen Phänomens und fragt anhand ausgewählter Beispiele nach der Funktion und der gesellschaftlichen Rolle dieser 'anderen' Könige in ihrem jeweiligen Umfeld. Damit legt er die Grundlagen für ein neues, innovatives Forschungsfeld und bereichert die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Königtum um eine neue, unerwartete Perspektive.

History - General --- History & Archaeology --- Courts and courtiers. --- Fools and jesters. --- Minstrels. --- Kings and rulers, Medieval. --- Medieval kings and rulers --- Jongleurs --- Bards and bardism --- Manners and customs --- Poets --- Court fools --- Jesters --- Courts and courtiers --- Favorites, Royal --- Joking --- Court and courtiers --- Courtiers --- Kings and rulers --- Queens --- Musicians

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2017 Freedley Award Finalist, Theatre Library Association 2016 Best Circus Book of the Year, Stuart Thayer Prize, Circus Historical Society The 1960s American hippie-clown boom fostered many creative impulses, including neo-vaudeville and Ringling's Clown College. However, the origin of that impulse, clowning with a circus, has largely gone unexamined. David Carlyon, through an autoethnographic examination of his own experiences in clowning, offers a close reading of the education of a professional circus clown, woven through an eye-opening, sometimes funny, occasionally poignant look at circus life. Layering critical reflections of personal experience with connections to wider scholarship, Carlyon focuses on the work of clowning while interrogating what clowns actually do, rather than using them as stand-ins for conceptual ideas or as sentimental figures.

Science (General). --- Fine Arts - General --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Clowns --- Circus performers --- Training of --- Carlyon, David. --- Performers, Circus --- Circus workers --- Entertainers --- Fools and jesters --- Comedians --- Performing arts. --- Ethnography. --- Theater-History. --- United States-History. --- Arts. --- Performing Arts. --- Theatre History. --- US History. --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Show business --- Arts --- Performance art --- Theater—History. --- United States—History. --- Arts, Primitive --- Theater. --- Ethnology. --- Theater --- United States --- Theatre and Performance Arts. --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- History.