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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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jesters --- dwarfs --- Iconography --- History of civilization --- Theatrical science --- anno 1500-1799 --- circus --- Fools and jesters --- -#gsdb8 --- 82-2 --- Court fools --- Jesters --- Courts and courtiers --- Favorites, Royal --- Joking --- History KUL --- Toneel. Drama --- History. --- 82-2 Toneel. Drama --- History --- #gsdb8 --- hofnar. --- zotheid. --- geschiedenis. --- middeleeuwen, middeleeuwse geschiedenis (historisch tijdvak). --- Shakespeare, William. --- circus.

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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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French literature --- Drama --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Civilization, Medieval, in literature. --- Fools and jesters in literature. --- French drama --- Satire, French --- Soties --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism