Clown makeup on his face and like wearing a clown outfit and he's clown colored.
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Lol all the clown hype was not a new clown movie promo but a iOS 10.2 new clown emoji.
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All other reported clown sightings are more accurately clown hoaxes.
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These are the clown-painted fans of the Insane Clown Posse.
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Pennywise, the clown from "It," may be the scariest movie clown.
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Auggie dresses up for Halloween as a clown, but not just any clown.
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I have always been a clown, and I will always be a clown.
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Comedians can be insanely competitive — the reason "class clown" is singular is because if there were two class clowns, one clown would ultimately kill the other clown.
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This clown is bad, and I do not wish to see this clown again.
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That said, just because Andrés profiled a murderous clown, that doesn't mean every clown is bad ... and there are nuances that can make an otherwise scary clown friendly.
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Its interior is, as one might expect, packed to the brim with clown paraphernalia: clown statuettes, clown snow globes, clown posters, issues of Clowning Around magazine, miniature clowns, life-sized clowns, caged killer clowns, and—apparently, from time to time—actual human clowns.
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They're full of horror-movie-quality clown videos, ostensibly documenting clown encounters in the wild.
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The only thing more creepy than a clown is a clown in a weird place.
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Pennywise, the clown from Stephen King's 1990 movie "It," may be the scariest movie clown.
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"The gentleman's dog lunged at the clown, and the clown ran off," McKenzie tells PEOPLE.
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" Anonymous Facebook pages warning of dangerous clowns abound, from "Melbourne Clown Association" to "Clown Purge - Adelaide.
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Last question: how does dressing up as a clown prove that a person is a clown?
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Last year I did my first clown workshop and I'm doing another clown workshop this weekend.
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" Calling the "jolly clown" a "historical anomaly," Sadie Stein writes, "We are clearly witnessing the last gasp of the clown as a phenomenon, as opposed to the clown as a signifier.
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"I used to be a clown," he says, holding a clown mask in front of his face.
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Nevada: The Clown Motel It's a clown-themed motel, built next to a graveyard in Tonopah, Nevada.
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Gags the Green Bay Clown Gags made headlines because people associated the clown with menace, not birthdays.
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The Swedish clown stabbing comes in the wake of some other evil clown sightings in the area.
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They used my name, they do the clown thing — every week I'm on with a clown picture.
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Kenny Ahern is the co-director of Clown Camp, a clown arts training program based in Wisconsin.
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The only thing creepier than a twisted clown is a little kid version of a twisted clown.
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The person, who was wearing a scary clown mask, red curly wig, yellow dotted shirt, blue clown pants and clown shoes, ran back into the woods and disappeared from view, according to police.
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As a professional clown herself, she uses her character, Sparky the Firefighter Clown, to teach kiddos about safety.
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"My dad is a clown, my mom is a bigger clown, and I am an idiot," Valderrama says.
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Police said two children saw the clown, and an adult heard the clown, according to the news agency.
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Bankruptcy attorney, and clown Tatelbaum has walked in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade as a clown since 2011.
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A stalker clown is someone who actually dresses as a clown to scare or prank someone, Radford says.
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In "The Clown," a slowly rotating circus clown sits atop an AstroTurf pedestal, surrounded by 2D balloon dogs.
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In 2016, an evil clown craze seemed to spread across the world with reports of menacing clown sightings.
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In some alternative universe somewhere, the movie It, which is about a scary clown, completely blindsided the clown community.
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"Dead Clown Walking," declared a New York Daily News headline with a picture of Trump in clown make-up.
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Henry the Clown-Magician: I woke up at 8 AM to get ready for an 11 AM clown gig.
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But there are also the "Killer Klowns from Outer Space" (1988), the scary clown doll under the bed in "Poltergeist" (1982), the zombie clown in "Zombieland" (2009) and the murderous clown in "All Hallow's Eve" (2013).
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When I was 6 my parents split up, and my mother's new boyfriend was a professional clown—Skippy The Clown.
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The only thing worse than one clown (apart from a clown in the sewer) is lots and lots of clowns.
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When I'm dressing up as a clown, I have three different faces of makeup and clown characters that I do.
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Nine clown-related arrests in Alabama were the result of kids and adults either pranking or making "terrorist" clown threats.
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There is, in fact, a long history of clown sightings and subsequent clown panics in the US, stretching back decades.
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But there are also the "Killer Klowns from Outer Space" (1988), the scary clown doll under the bed in "Poltergeist" (1982), the zombie clown in "Zombieland" (2009) and, most recently, the murderous clown in "All Hallows' Eve" (2013).
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But the origins of the current clown climate could perhaps be traced to 2016, when the world changed irrevocably as numerous clown sightings put the country in a state of panic and the clown emoji was officially introduced.
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Since the clown hoaxes began, schools in Dallas, Houston, Connecticut, Virginia, Philadelphia, DC, Missouri, New Jersey, Arizona, Kentucky, New York, and Baltimore have beefed up security due to clown-related threats to school districts or general clown panic.
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But even classics like a Cirque du Soleil clown (79 percent creepy), opera singer Luciano Pavarotti as a clown (62 percent creepy), and Bozo the Clown (48 percent creepy) — characters intended to be approachable, not scary — fared poorly.
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This dude is a clown (not just a Whaaaboom, an actual circus clown) who treated Buddy terribly and eventually abandoned him.
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That or Insane Clown Posse'll decide they need to represent Detroit rap on the American stage, and not this actual clown.
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A clown with a torso pierced by arrows dies extravagantly, and bloodlessly; the clown culprit, bow in hand, is darling anyway.
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In Kentucky, a 20083-year-old man was arrested in full clown regalia and charged with wearing a mask in a public place: Apart from the robberies, viral clown sightings have mostly turned up videos of clowns standing and waving at people, like this waving car wash clown in Michigan and this friendly clown in Rhode Island.
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Slate's Matthew Dessem points out that though the clown scares preceded It, the novel's central menace, Pennywise the clown — who is more accurately a shape-shifting evil entity whose "resting state" is that of Stephen King's terrifying clown — returns to terrorize the children of suburban Maine once per generation, a pattern reminiscent of these real-life clown scares.
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Authorities in northern Texas said they're investigating tips about clown threats and clown-related arrests have been made in Ohio and Kentucky.
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"This has nothing to do with our business," Mattie Faint, veteran clown and curator of the clown museum in London, told Mashable.
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It's the perfect addition for dressing up as last year's most popular Halloween clown — as opposed to this year's clown, that is.
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The clown memes just kept going from there, with clown photos being used as reaction images to illustrate our most dumbass moments.
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Kemper County in Mississippi has made it illegal for anyone to "appear in public in a clown costume, clown mask or clown makeup" until the day after Halloween, according to the local newspaper; Ronald McDonald has temporarily gone on semi-hiatus.
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Stores like Target have decided to stop selling scary clown masks (their clown costumes for kids and happy clown outfits are still available), while others, like Halloween Express, have reported a huge bump in demand for the outfits of macabre Bozos.
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Imagine this situation: Someone dresses up like a clown or leaves a clown artifact around for someone else to find and document. 6.
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The clown commandments Clowns of America International has a list of Eight Clown Commandments that outlines the parameters of professional conduct for performers.
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Witter wears clown makeup as a violent and hypercompetent (he's a legit jiu jitsu champion and "the only buff clown" in wrestling) heel.
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While the film's not just about a scary clown, and delves deeper into fears associated with adolescence, the clown will truly haunt you.
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The trailer for the documentary Wrinkles the Clown was recently released, and it features a real-life clown eerily similar to It's Pennywise.
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"Scarborough said the GOP performs "on a fifth-grade level" nationally, adding that it sends "one clown after another clown after another clown up on the national stage and tarnishes the Republican brand in the way that they have for years now.
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The clown incident in Germany is not an isolated one: Scary clown sighting and menacing acts are spreading across Europe after first appearing stateside.
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LONDON — Searches for clown porn have increased by 213 percent since the recent "creepy clown" craze took off, according to the porn website Pornhub.
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Creepy clown sightings are on the rise in the United States and abroad, but there's one clown you aren't going to see anytime soon.
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The Wasco Clown During October 2014, a California couple started an art project centered on portraits of a lonely clown with a head wound.
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Pinlord While I definitely can't say "Vladimir Putin is a gay clown," I can say this is the "Putin Gay Clown" pin from Pinlord.
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And as the spooky costume-centric holiday nears, Target has decided to take action against the clown craze by removing clown costumes from shelves.
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No formal education or training is required to become a clown, but many choose to attend clown college in order to hone their skills.
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Local police have become overwhelmed with calls of a potential clown sighting, and some schools have even gone on lockdown over potential clown threats.
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On TikTok, users are lip-syncing to the Insane Clown Posse's 1997 song "Hokus Pokus" while wearing clown makeup, and tagging their videos #clowncheck.
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Since the events in Greenville, clown sightings have been reported in several states, and some people have actually been arrested for scaring people in costume, making clown-related threats, and in one case, chasing kids with a baseball bat while wearing a clown costume.
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"We are professionals who put a great deal of time, effort and energy into the craft," said Monica Chaney, aka SonShyne the Clown, a mother from Kernersville, North Carolina, who sells clown supplies online and capers with her husband, Rick, aka Jots A. Clown.
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These people paid $10 for delivery by the "scary clown" method instead of the usual $5 (except for one lucky winner of a free clown).
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You stuff the clown into the box, but it's only a matter of time until you wind it up and the clown pops back up.
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In "Clown Service" Notaro plays a woman who enlists the services of a clown to bring her cheer in the midst of post-breakup blues.
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After Trump announced his candidacy in June, the cover of the paper also pictured Trump in clown makeup with the headline, "Clown Runs For Prez."
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After a Swedish clown allegedly stabbed a little kid in the shoulder back in October 2016, the Clown War made its way onto US soil.
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A new documentary called "Wrinkles the Clown" highlights a creepy real-life job of a clown who was hired by parents to scare a child.
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Clown costumes were nowhere in sight at one store we visited, perhaps thanks to a number of creepy clown sightings reported to the police recently.
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I was one of the folks who mocked the GOP's 17-candidate field as a clown car (or, rather, a clown limousine) back in 2016.
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And if you can't get enough clown content (who hurt you?), there's a documentary arriving in October about a very real, very creepy Florida clown.
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Thus, I nearly jumped for joy upon seeing Ass Clown by Scott Scheidly, a meticulously rendered pink and purple painting of Trump in full clown makeup.
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Someone called it "a clown car that drove into a gold mine," and like all clown cars, Twitter makes the passengers get out once in awhile.
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Clown costume ban in France To prevent problems at a Halloween fest in southern France, a mayor ordered a holiday ban on clown costumes in 2014.
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Police departments in clown-affected areas have made two things clear: They're vigilant, but not worried, and they really want people to stop pulling stupid clown stunts.
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Products such as the "Happy Clown Latex Half Mask" below and scary-looking "Adult Clown Mask" above are no longer available for purchase on the Target website.
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In the midst of the 2016 clown-pocolypse, many Apple users are wondering why on earth the company would create an emoji of a creepy clown face.
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Meanwhile, in addition to the alleged clowns they can find, police are cracking down on social media threats of clown attacks and false reports of clown sightings.
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Then a clown came out of nowhere, Jubilee screamed, and the clown thrust his pelvis back and forth — perhaps the worst visual in all of Bachelor history.
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"Clown" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian) because it's about a clown who murders and eats children and then regurgitates their bones.
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A face-painted toddler in a clown costume snuggled on the lap of a stranger, and his father — in a Clown Lives Matter T-shirt — nodded approvingly.
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" But Mr. Rush also has several clown memes saved on his phone for future use, and one of his friends is listed in his contacts as "Clown.
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And then in the late '70s, just before the clown scares began, John Wayne Gacy, the famous former clown turned serial killer, carried out his evil work.
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"For this special Clown screening of IT, all attendees should arrive dressed as a clown in order to attend," their website reads, while I hide under a desk.
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In October 23, a month that took place approximately 900 million years ago, there was a rash of "killer clown" or "crazed clown" sightings across the United States.
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It, however, is probably best known in the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown — and, in the new trailer, Pennywise is not the only clown on the block.
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A Facebook page called Gags — The Green Bay Clown designed to track the clown's activity states that the first clown sighting was on August 1 around 2 a.
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You might think "I already have a clown costume, from when I was Twisty the Clown for Halloween two years ago" and decide just to roll with it.
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Most of the time if I'm dressed as a clown, it's as a male, but occasionally I love to combine the two and become a fabulous lady clown.
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Juggalos, the name for fans of the Insane Clown Posse rap group and related musicians, are often easily identified by their cartoonish black-and-white clown face paint.
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A clown of a leader, Boris would have to follow the transatlantic lead of his fellow clown and every other risible authoritarian — they stop laughing when they fear you.
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In Entertainment Weekly's review of the season's intial episodes, they cite a clown theme throughout, nothing that the show features the return of Twisty the Clown from Freak Show.
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"The idea that clown, bad clown, could actually be president of the United States, it just insults all of us," the chairman of IAC/InterActive and Expedia, Inc. said.
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That said, while it's obviously not illegal to wear a clown costume, some police departments have said that wearing a clown costume just to freak people out is prohibited.
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The one that made the most sense to me was "Weep, Clown, Weep!" about a woman who can't understand why her boyfriend would degrade himself by being a clown.
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"—Variety Connecticut School District Bans Clown Costumes A public school district in New Haven, Connecticut, has banned clown costumes during this year's Halloween, describing them as "symbols of terror.
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"Remember the fall of 2016 when 'creepy clown' sightings were reported throughout the United States and the world fueling a clown panic throughout the country?" the police bulletin states.
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This week, we're talking to clown porn star and camgirl Miss Quin about how she got into her unusual kink and accidentally became the face of clown fetishists everywhere.
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He's the creator of 2015's Devolver Digital-published point-and-clicker Dropsy, something of a clown-hugging (or is that hugging-clown?) sim that released to positive reviews.
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The highly unusual physical characteristics of the clown -- the wig, the red nose, the makeup, the odd clothing -- only magnify the uncertainty of what the clown might do next.
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Sometimes the duality of the clown really does have shocking connections to actual horror: Gacy is not the only real-life evil associated with the specter of the clown.
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" - Chris, 220 "Temp job: clown at waterbed store.
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And you can capitalize on the recent creepy clown spottings around the country with this animatronic freakshow clown that seems distracted and turned away until a motion sensor is triggered.
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The highly unusual physical characteristics of the clown (the wig, the big red nose, the makeup, the odd clothing) only magnify the uncertainty of what the clown might do next.
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He says the appeal of being a stalker clown is simple: Being "creepy" – dressing as a scary clown in public, but not usually doing anything else – is usually not illegal.
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The clown terror got even more horrifying a few months back when a man in clown paint and bladed gloves slashed a man to death in a Denver parking lot.
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Are they just really inept kidnappers, or is this whole thing some sort of conspiracy by the anti-clown movement to bring on the clown extinction once and for all?
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Most of those who have been arrested in clown costume during the Great Clown Panic of 2016 have been disaffected young men who donned the attire to cause public distress.
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The Frisco location wrote on their Facebook page that if their clown delivery service stirs up enough interest they "may pick a day for out of town clown deliveries as well."
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But police urged residents to remain calm after an adult man saw a clown emerge from the woods and chased the clown with a machete in Greensboro, North Carolina on Tuesday.
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When most kids his age obsessed over bicycles and bubbles, he was a 5-year-old clown, scampering around in an oversized pants as pants-less adult clown chased after him.
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The title of the series The Great Clown suggests a Dadaist critique of warmongering narcissists, with clear allegorical undertones: a nation in the clutches of a great clown is, indeed, doomed.
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This pattern can be traced back to August, when a clown in Green Bay dubbed "Gags the Clown" began frightening passersby by standing on a corner and, well, looking really creepy.
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Steve Lough — a former clown for the Ringling Bros.
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" Others said, "Get this clown out of our town.
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Barnum & Bailey Clown College and later joining a troupe.
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Adventurous types could also track down Watts' debut feature, Clown, a grotesque horror-comedy (also co-written with Ford) about a haunted clown suit that turns its wearers into child-murdering maniacs.
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This is not because Insane Clown Posse is "bad," per se; it's just that Insane Clown Posse does not conform to the conventional notions of taste as you or I understand them.
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After the image of Najib as a clown, Fahmi also portrayed Mahathir as a clown, for the years of autocratic rule and alleged cronyism during his previous reign between 1981 and 2003.
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Since initial clown incident, there has been a rash of clown sightings, almost certainly due to copycat pranksters who have a bad sense of humor and decided to start celebrating Halloween early.
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"Voidsorption" (2017) sounds like a new millennial paper towel brand, while "Clown Clutter" (2017), a riot of primary colors, conjures Calder's "Circus" (20173), as well as the creepier aspects of clown culture.
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Which speaks to the reality that while most of the creepy clowns cited in news reports are sporting generic clown wigs, white face and exaggerated joker makeup (and may or may not be wearing clown-related clothing), clown-related clothing is in fact a basic part of the fashion vernacular, whether we realize it or not.
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"I am no longer a clinic clown but a &aposcrimi-clown,&apos" Lapeire reportedly told Caroline's terrified children, 12, 15, and 17, who were forced to watch their mother's murder, the paper reported.
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Anyone with a clown phobia might not be itching to see It on opening weekend, but the star of the new movie also reminded fans that, technically, his character isn't actually a clown.
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Dozens of clown episodes have been reported across Britain in recent days, the police say, including a clown jumping out from behind a bush or climbing onto a car at a traffic light.
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On Monday alone, reports trickled in from all over the country of people in clown masks getting arrested for threatening behavior and trespassing, and of yet more (probably fake) threats of clown attacks.
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In "Grandma," Ms. Olinghouse employs Clown Therapy — a personal improvisational practice of, in her words, "queering the clown form" — to address familial dynamics and offer a comical critique of consumerism and the media.
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So imagine me all excited because I'm like, "I'm gonna get a new villager" and I go to the campsite and there is a clown faced ram with clown makeup on his face!
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"I had always thought of clowns as being happy and good, but in fact if you look at the history of the clown, the clown is a much more ambiguous character," he said.
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This aspect of the clown became even more central to the clown motif in the early 20th century, when Charlie Chaplin's lovable tramp took over cinema and sad clowns entered the circus ring.
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Apparently, Burger King is afraid that audiences will watch an evil clown terrorize a bunch of children for two hours and get inspired to give their business to another similarly red-haired clown.
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He's a traveling clown looking to offend social justice warriors.
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" And he mocked President Donald Trump, calling him a "clown.
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Maybe some people are down to clown with Rogie Baby.
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He was famous in Austin and called Darrell The Clown.
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I am more in favor of that type of clown.
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Bradley Beal on Donald Trump: 'To me, you're a clown.
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In one trailer we see clown blowing up a balloon.
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In fact, there are multiple types of AHS killer clown.
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You are going to look so good as a clown!
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The clown waves a hand… but it's not his hand.
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He's like a rodeo clown sticking up the middle finger.
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There's clown contouring, lip contouring, heck, even boob contouring exists.
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I just learned not to even talk to the clown.
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This clearly is not the act of a professional clown.
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An evil, supernatural clown isn't a big leap from there.
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Forget the claims that he's a clown and knows nothing.
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It doesn't always appear in the form of a clown.
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And a few just make you feel like a clown.
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A totally overrated clown who speaks without knowing the facts.
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Why'd you have to collab with a clown like Thicke?
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The Emmy winner is going full clown for this one.
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I just wanted them to give me glam but clown.
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Clown masks sit on a shelf in an Indiana garage.
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"Clown Runs For Prez," blared the New York Daily News.
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Don't fucking call around about me anymore, you fucking clown.
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But are they laughing with, or at, the black clown?
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The clown mask enables the political manoeuvering, as it were.
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In a cabinet, he stores a collection of clown statues.
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" Giuliani turned down the offer while calling Avenatti "a clown.
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The sad clown, the angry comic — it's basically a cliché.
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The big orange clown fish flailed at front and center.
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Performing arts featured slapstick interludes, banter and stock clown roles.
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Seeing red, McGregor smote this clown with the left hand.
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"Meesa Jar Jar," says the clown when Mapo introduces himself.
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Luckey also voiced Chuckles the clown in Toy Story 3.
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But if he's a bald clown, where's his blue hair?
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" Mr. Beck sees it differently, calling Mr. Trump "a clown.
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" Back story: "Lough was a professional clown with Ringling Bros.
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Nevertheless, Jones considers his Clown Lives Matter movement a success.
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My dad: He's the Biggest clown and the biggest goof.
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The film was more about metaphorical horrors than clown horrors.
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Essentially, to have a seance and honor their clown gods.
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I got the strength I needed from the clown character.
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What a horrifying clown show that could turn into. Whew!
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"But he was very proud of the rodeo clown sequence."
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The other hinges on the apparitions of a nightmarish clown.
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There are many ways and reasons to clown spin classes.
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He masked his pain by becoming something of a clown.
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"She's a clown and you're not," Milk said, of Thorgy.
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It's a short graphic novel about a clown named Pop.
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That's what happened with the clown car episode last time.
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" The other septuagenarian New Yorker is a "carnival barking clown.
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" He added: "This entire process is such a clown show.
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LOS ANGELES, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Terrifying clown or heartbroken dad?
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But the scariest clown movie in theaters is not fictional.
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A boorish clown named Donald Trump brought down the curtain.
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This may be the saddest clown event in the world.
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" Mr. Bloomberg described the president as "a carnival barking clown.
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Every year since I became a class clown. Fighting. Lying.
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Mr. Rosado said he would clown around, making people laugh.
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Even for a clown, it's hard to cut against type.
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You can also use a second technique: clown car packing.
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I'm a nighttime clown, and I'm a lot more vulgar.
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Parrotfish swam alongside us, followed by a few clown fish.
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Pennywise the Clown might be back to haunt your dreams.
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You can dress as a clown without the full costume.
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The clown hysteria seems to revolve around two nightmare scenarios.
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Have you ever experienced somebody being afraid of a clown?
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It was called Clown Co. I was there before that.
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But even Ronald wasn't immune to the great clown scare.
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Gacy, who once worked as "Pogo the Clown" at children's parties, became known as the "Killer Clown," and was one of the most prolific serial killers in the US. He was executed in 1994.
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It can explain to people with little knowledge of biology, for example, that the blue whale is more closely related to a clown than a clown fish, to a hippo than a sea otter.
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Now, the clown fear has reached such extreme heights that an 11-year-old girl in Georgia was arrested after she brought a knife to school for protection against a possible killer clown encounter.
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That hasn't stopped people from perpetuating and reacting to the hoax clown sightings across the country, possibly contributing to the fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old boy in possession of a clown mask.
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The poll, conducted October 15 to 17, comes amid the great clown scare of 2016: Since August, more than 83 "suspicious" clown sightings have been reported across the US, from Seattle to Bangor, Maine.
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Police forces said they had received dozens of reports of "killer clown" sightings in the last week where individuals dressed in clown outfits sometimes carrying knives have acted suspiciously or chased people, often young children.
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"Aerial acrobatics, fetish clown outfits and space hoppers (fun times!)" Peck told The Mirror that she — and her children — were entirely unprepared for the clown drawings that came in the second half of the book.
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After serial killer and charity clown John Wayne Gacy was sentenced for the murders of 33 people in 1980, clown sightings became something of a staple in local newspapers, with appearances happening every few years.
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These ghosts flickering through are a reminder that we tend to call a lot of our greatest clowns by other names (actor, comedian), while using the word clown — and the phrase "clown show" — to denigrate.
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Long before the creepy clown summer of 2016 or the gruesome blade attack on a man in Denver at the hands of a clown, a red-nosed, gun-toting harlequin nearly got away with murder.
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Coveted furniture designs by Billy Haines and John Dickinson are well represented here, but the showstopper is a huge canvas from Mike Cockrill's "Baby Doll/Clown Killer" series depicting three little girls torturing a clown.
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America is deep in the throes of an evil clown mania.
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But they're especially creepy when they're playing a nightmare clown soundtrack.
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Curry's clown was a cartoonish nightmare in need of dental hygiene.
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Beck's "Pagliacci (Clown)" would feel right at home with Calder's performers.
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"It's easier to feed a clown than an animal," jokes one.
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Despite it all he's still the happy clown he's always been.
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Please let me know if I missed any upcoming clown content.
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Instead, the director, Matt Hullum, allows them to just clown around.
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What he sees is a clown, watching him from the treeline.
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"I'm the clown in here; I make people laugh," she said.
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"I have a funny side...I'm the class clown!" she says.
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For more info on the Drafthouse's all-clown showing, click here.
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"In the 1980s, there were these 'phantom' clown reports," he says.
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"I couldn't find clown shoes on Thingiverse," he tells me, excitedly.
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Or maybe Beyoncé Clown has come to take her chilling revenge?
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She is a true leader and he is an ignorant clown.
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That's why the clown fish chooses to live in the anemone.
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Together, they form a kind of Greek chorus in clown makeup.
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In Canada, Home Depot pulled some of its clown halloween gear.
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Cause you a clown and homie don't play that sh*t.
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Nobody wants to be a clown suffering with rotting, heavy rubber.
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This isn't the first time there's been a clown scare either.
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The band recently made a statement about the great clown panic.
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Let's hope this one won't inspire another nationwide clown panic again.
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Don't call the fucking landlord, don't call anyone, you fucking clown.
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In eighth grade, everyone was trying to be the class clown.
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She's not a clown with big appetites or a kooky naïf.
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You can buy this clown costume for $29.99 at Party City.
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"He looked like a clown," Frances said, with a bitter sob.
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At least one death has been linked to a clown hoax.
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"I'm an actor, not a clown," he said more than once.
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Last year, a clown was spotted skulking around a Chicago cemetery.
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Did we need another actor portraying the Clown Prince of Crime?
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The Clown Prince of Crime notoriously doesn't have an origin story.
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A former professional clown is running for Congress in South Carolina.
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In exile he has become a literal clown, performing for kids.
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I, in fact, used to be a clown at kids' parties.
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Popular culture helped catapult the clown to a titan of terror.
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Laughing at the orange-haired clown with the rest of us.
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Follow Beckett (but not in a creepy clown way) on Twitter.
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It's not quite as scary, though, as Pee-wee's clown nightmare.
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I haven't had sex with a female clown fetishist off camera.
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Read: Some of Those Killer Clown Sightings Were Fake, Cops Say
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When I was in the prisoner camp, I became the clown.
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Others blame the media for drumming up the creepy-clown hysteria.
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CreditCredit The life of a New York clown takes many roads.
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And I would never, ever keep a clown in my room.
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And if he's merely a clown, how much can we care?
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I don't know what the whole clown thing is all about.
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"Maybe we'll let them stay, maybe, to keep working," Clown said.
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JW: We're going to shove more clowns in the clown car.
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The infamous clown couple has broken up, according to the trailer.
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"My husband's body, with the head of a clown!" she marvels.
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So now, IT's go-to form is Pennywise the Dancing Clown.
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He's a clown with more than a modicum of self-knowledge.
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The correct clue was the nerd emoji, not the clown emoji.
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I think the first thing I saw was her clown series.
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Why would the Treasury Department go along with this clown show?
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He's attacked on the street while in his clown get-up.
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" He said, "Put it in the corner where that clown is.
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Then the group was joined by the veteran clown Bill Irwin.
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The Clown Prince of Crime stole the most Oscar nominations Monday.
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Conveniently, the clown in question is already a member of Congress.
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Beware of face paint Don't turn that clown smile upside-down.
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Maybe — with the support of fellow clown memers — we'll do better.
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He had to show Steve Hayes that he was no clown.
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A sad clown, which is why the end is formally announced.
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Does the crowd differ for your clown act and magician act?
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"Pico, the English Grotesque Clown" will haunt or amuse your dreams.
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Because the threat of a clown is scarier than death itself.
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I've always thought he was very tough, not the smiling clown.
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Click here to view original GIFGIF: Insane Clown Posse (Facebook)One of the members of Insane Clown Posse has teamed up with his 12-year-old daughter to create a new power duo: The Snake Busters.
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The idea is that they have like a Pepe figure [Pepe the Frog is a famous internet meme that's notoriously been appropriated by the alt-right] that's wearing clown makeup and a clown wig and stuff.
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The recent craze led best-selling U.S. horror author Stephen King, whose 1986 novel "It" tells the story of a supernatural being that appears as a clown, to appeal for anti-clown sentiment to be tempered.
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He's speaking to a professor at the clown school he attends in Paris, a professor who's not terribly fond of him, and tells him, in French, that he'll never realize his dream of becoming a clown.
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Adding to the nationwide wave of creepy clown sightings that began in late-August was an incident Wednesday night when, police tell PEOPLE, someone in Tulsa, Oklahoma, said they were attacked by a rainbow-colored clown.
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Actor Bill Skarsgard, who's playing scary clown Pennywise, explained in an interview with his brother, Alexander, that the clown costume was so scary that the child actors on set were almost too creeped out to work.
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After last year's killer clown craze, adult site Pornhub found that searches of clown porn had gone up by 213 percent, and—somewhat surprisingly—women were 33 percent more likely to search for it than men.
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The occasional random kid in a clown mask is an individual looking to scare people; there's no evidence to suggest these incidents are part of a dark clown-related conspiracy that is putting children at risk.
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Many children had terrified reactions to seeing these two famous clowns everywhere, or to having clown memorabilia foisted on them by well-meaning adults — an anxiety most notably typified by the famous clown scene in Poltergeist.
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It would follow that this totally new idea of a "scary clown" would cause a jolt in the party clown community, and that the clowns might respond by protesting this outrageous (and very novel) piece of libel.
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Folklorist and author Benjamin Radford previously told PEOPLE the clown sightings are likely to die down within a few weeks and says such sightings are nothing new, with so-called "clown panics" dating back to the 1980s.
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Although the clown is fond of saying he trains cats "with love," Loginov said he had been present at one rehearsal where the clown put nooses around cats' necks to teach them to sit on high platforms.
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In the 1987 video installation "Clown Torture," the clown of the title (played by an actor) cowers and ceaselessly screams a horrified "no, no, no, no, no" at an unseen tormentor, who is apparently us, the viewer.
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When people are acting the fool, they say that they're putting on their clown makeup or that they've got their clown outfits on (a riff off a line from a 2013 episode of "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta").
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Hooker systematically destroyed me on all of them, before turning to the only pinball game he's actually kept: Happy Clown, an electromechanical pinball board produced by Gottlieb in 1964 whose art features a disembodied, bouncing clown head.
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However, Lillard's intentions don't involve murdering people while wearing a clown costume.
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In one, the clown poses for photos and gives a fist-bump.
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And is Bill Skarsgard's character secretly Pennywise the Dancing Clown in disguise?!?
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I looked like a clown, but I thought I was so beautiful.
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And instead all our time, he&aposs been discussing this rodeo clown.
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Alongside the post, they staged a faux fingerprinting, complete with clown wig.
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It has the requisite scary clown and terrified bicycle-riding children's ensemble.
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It's not a clown and has nothing to do with pro clowning.
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The series has released multiple promos, most of which are clown-centric.
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But the most recent version of the clown did get a makeover.
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Arthur, as an anonymous clown-painted avenger, becomes a figure of notoriety.
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She couldn't understand was why people back Harley's relationship with the clown.
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Insane Clown Posse's Violent J (center) marches with his family and fans.
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"I really enjoyed how you handled Flip Flop The Clown," he said.
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She said that the clown had waved at her but not spoken.
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All of them had treated people with clown phobias, but never statues.
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Pinciaro says the department first heard about the clown sightings on Aug.
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"One clown in Washington is more than enough," Verhofstadt told the chamber.
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Gacy worked at children's parties as a character named Pogo the Clown.
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Shit happens to him, but he's not a fool or a clown.
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Not just Greenville Greenville's not the only place that's had clown sightings.
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Bill Skarsgard originally starred as creepy clown Pennywise in 2017's "It."
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The fact that we have a billionaire-cabinetted tweet clown as president?
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We'll add some more: Boor, bore, clown, dope, dingus, failure, flake, fink.
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"McDonald's advertises happy meals, market towards children, have a clown," Weiler said.
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He began as a clown, performing at children's birthday celebrations at weekends.
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The truth is, clown sightings, pranks, and hoaxes aren't new at all.
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"Creepy Clown Sightings Spread Across Nation," is an ABC headline from Oct.
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A recent Slate article documents supposed clown sightings back to May 1981.
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Insane Clown Posse are not the most hated band in the world.
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A clown in New York chased a teen out of the subway.
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Be part of the solution by not dressing up as a clown.
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The performer Jonathan Richardson runs a queer clown troupe named The Fems.
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Heads up though, certain, clown-heavy locations are already filling up fast.
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Or, my personal favorite, when he called Chuck Schumer the "head clown"?
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The cast even includes a clown who goes by the name Grumpy.
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As pieces of folklore, he says, the phantom clown sightings are fascinating.
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My hood is no place for clown make up and selfie sticks.
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A porcelain clown figure seated at a makeup table seems a favorite.
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According to Payscale, the average salary for a circus clown is $64,500.
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He was voted class clown—but the classes themselves were a challenge.
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"It was in the middle of the killer-clown phenomenon," he recalled.
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"There is an evil clown trope running through popular culture," he said.
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Fact is, looking like a clown these days is a contentious issue.
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Also, we have a clown-painted punching bag in the White House.
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" – to ET Hugh Jackman: Party clown "I am really bad at magic.
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Donors thought Trump was a joke, or an idiot, or a clown.
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When I'm in that tiny room full of all the clown figures.
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What inspired you to shoot these new characters at the Clown Motel?
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The Knicks either create a super team or remain a clown show.
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But for those in the professional clown business, it's been no joke.
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What does the "creepy clown" fear mean for the future of clowns?
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The whole creepy clown thing doesn't even bother or phase me, personally.
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The first time I ever actually did clown sex was in porn.
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And who better than a clown, then, to pay you a visit?
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The Trumps smile at a visitor's costume of the ghost clown, It.
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From "It: Chapter Two" to "Joker," clown movies are having a moment.
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On Independence Day, the president's hometown paper depicted him as a clown.
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And then you have the clown car performance in the White House.
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But, outside of being a sexualized clown, does she have any powers?
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Trump. He can out-clown Bozo and the specter in "It" combined.
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All right, okay, I can call it clown car, but explain that.
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In the summer and fall of 2016, America was under clown attack.
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This ignorant myth has unfairly overshadowed what the clown arts truly represent.
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When I expressed doubt that this would come to pass, Clown laughed.
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He dressed as a clown, recited poetry, told stories — "everything," he said.
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The clown cake has since become an "in" joke in our house.
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What he isn't, in this version, is a monster or a clown.
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Then again, Steve McQueen could rock a scarlet Bozo the Clown wig.
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Who's to say IT isn't just dark matter in clown-shaped form?
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The sad clown movie got more nominations than any other film, somehow.
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He's also a lively actor and clown (another Mother Ginger of note).
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She said someone in the neighborhood had called in a clown sighting.
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This meme of Vladimir Putin as a gay clown has been banned.
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Clown memes are his way of checking himself and being self-aware.
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I would like to announce that I do not like this clown.
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Sullivan) eagerly pursued by the lonesome Ms. Meyers; a floundering clown (Ms.
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There's all sorts of talk about a clown in the White House.
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Decades later, Bozo the Clown made a similar impression in orangy-red.
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Donald Trump is a clown / I hope he doesn't let us down.
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The Clown Show is the first-ever open call for Elephant Gallery.
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"People are afraid that a clown is going to throw a pie at them or squirt water on them but that's not what we're about," said Gretton, co-founder of a clown disaster relief organization, Red Nose Response.
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Through some twisted turn of events, Apple thought that it would be a smart idea to release a clown and gorilla emoji, which naturally set off discussion about the recent creepy clown craze and the deceased gorilla, Harambe.
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Frick tells PEOPLE that kids today are natives to social media in a way that no other generation has been — and as clown expert Benjamin Radford previously told PEOPLE, the Internet has fed the rumors of clown-sightings.
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In the wake of the great clown panic of 2016, there is no better time than now to revisit Stephen King's It. The novel, published in 1986, introduced a shapeshifting evil that favored the form of a clown.
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I was Coco the Clown and I had no magic tricks, and I remember a 6-year-old standing up at a party saying, 'Mummy this clown is terrible, he doesn't know any tricks' – and he was right.
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Their age and outsider status bring to mind the Insane Clown Posse, a hugely successful (if critically maligned) "horrorcore" rap group from Detroit who wear black-and-white clown makeup and frequently use the image of the joker.
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The same week that "Gutterplum" had its New York premiere, Zach Zucker, another young Los Angeles modern clown, put on his own pratfalling, beer-swilling clown performance in the character of Jack Tucker, the world's worst stand-up.
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"I definitely have noticed a lot more dating clown memes in the past year, but my friends and I have used clown as a verb (variations include clowning, clownery, etc.) for the past couple of years," she said.
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Your Sim meets and woos another Sim, they kiss 20 times to have a baby, that baby matures into an adolescent before your eyes, the clown painting in your house spawns an actual clown that inflicts depression on your family, so then you delete the clown painting, you can go on a beach vacation, and then you get bored and begin playing something else.
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Big Apple has retained the director Mark Lonergan, the music director Rob Slowik, the writer and clown Joel Jeske and Barry Lubin, a rubber-faced pro who plays Grandma, a housecoat-clad clown who is ardently and inexplicably beloved.
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"Congressman Schiff is running a partisan clown show in the House — that's his right because the Constitution doesn't prohibit clown shows, but fortunately, in the Senate, we're working to follow the facts one step at a time," Sasse said.
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Less than a year after the clown sightings, a remake of the horror movie It came out, prompting a ton of memes of Pennywise in the sewer and dancing (and, of course, people wanting to fuck the It clown).
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Here, she's clad in a silk robe and down to clown with Billy.
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Washington (CNN)President-elect Donald Trump jabbed at Democrats and "head clown" Sen.
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And wouldn't everyone prefer to be 'Class Clown' than 'Most Likely To Succeed'?
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Then there's a good one about a clown who loves a lady acrobat.
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A panicked clown pops out of a tiny box and at your face.
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" Hamill then performed a creepy impression of a clown asking, "What's your order?
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Ellen DeGeneres decided to clown around — and Sean "Diddy" Combs was seriously spooked.
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Baryshnikov is made up like a clown, a Petrushka of a different era.
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He then becomes the totem of a clown-masked Occupy-esque protest movement.
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When you go to the site, you'll see that creepy clown promo playing.
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The Grammy winner also took the stage to perform — dressed as a clown.
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Insane Clown Posse fans in Washington, DC, during the Juggalo March on Sep.
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Two orange glowing eyes stare from the face of the blurry clown. Deadlights.
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In that case, the clown-only screening might help you out a little.
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Ozzy follows Winter's advice and asks the clown if he's awake or asleep.
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Everyone's favorite sewer-dwelling clown will return to the big screen on Sept.
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Clown sighting pranks have happened since the 1980s — but never quite like this.
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The Corporate Accountability International in Boston, Massachusetts wanted the clown to be retired.
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At least six clown-related incidents have been reported in Newcastle since Sept.
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The appalling news about impostors has affected the clown world in many ways.
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In some communities, we have been asked not to drive in clown costume.
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It's like presenting a watch with a clown face to an horology enthusiast.
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But he's also a clown and didn't specify why the NSA wasn't helping.
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Take the scary clown phenomenon that has plagued the United States and Europe.
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He goes from charmer to pariah, from clown prince to object of scorn.
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One clown might have ruined it for everyone: serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
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He was then dubbed "the Killer Clown" by the media during his trial.
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The clown sightings, which have seemingly taken Greenville by storm, have gone viral.
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Last year, everyone wanted to be the murderous clown from Maine named Pennywise.
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Remember the episode where Homer builds a terrifying clown bed frame for Bart?
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My first [dream] was to be a clown, and then a stunt man.
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It's not about being a clown for me, it's about being a beginner.
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Needles as a sexy It the clown, an Amanda Lepore appreciation track ft.
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Maybe I wanna run away with the circus and be a fuckin' clown.
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Target does not want you to dress as a creepy clown this Halloween.
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"I'm not serious ... and you shouldn't be either" (Are you a clown?) 295.
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One aspiring computer science major did take the opportunity to play class clown.
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For professional clowns, anti-clown backlash is making business even tougher than before.
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I've been picked out as a clown, but never as a Santa Claus.
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Still, it feels unfair to completely discount the clown premise, because it's weird.
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The teen said he pushed passed the clown, who proceeded to give chase.
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Lewis, on the other hand, was considered a lightweight, if crowd-pleasing, clown.
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We're introduced to the kids, the clown, and the town besieged by terror.
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O'Keefe is treated as a clown by self-respecting journalists for good reason.
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There is no way to sufficiently sully a pig or mock a clown.
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And that other fucking clown, Brett, or whatever the fuck his name is.
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Something about her is pure and innocent, even though she's a psychopathic clown.
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As the "clown panic" spreads, so do possible copycats, and the cycle repeats.
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"It's Maduro being a clown," opposition lawmaker and economist Angel Alvarado told Reuters.
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As a group, the tondos remind me of wheels on a clown car.
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You can buy a Pennywise the clown costume for $54.99 at Party City.
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You can't go wrong with a creepy clown getup and a red balloon.
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Other creepy clown sightings have been reported in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
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"At least I got some pictures of the anemone eating my clown fish."
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A more appropriate image than a clown is that of a rugby captain.
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THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE COMPANY CANNOT BE A CLOWN CAR OPERATION.
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Is it weird that I have a crush on Pennywise the Dancing Clown?
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The Insane Clown Posse have a song whose title asks that very question.
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To consider him a clown or a madman would be a grave mistake.
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The clown scene at the Lincoln Memorial was much more serious and subdued.
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Clown College taught me how to approach people who are scared of clowns.
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Harris was dressed as a deranged ringleader, while Burtka was a creepy clown.
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Kersh can be seen doing a real creepy clown dance in the doorway.
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The Trump White House may be a clown show and a criminal enterprise.
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I had chosen to be the clown, and I wasn't happy with it.
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Jerry Lewis gave mixed signals about his desires for "Clown" throughout his life.
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The moderation of the debate was a clown show from start to finish.
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In "The Clown," a middle-aged divorced man takes pride in his work.
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"I absolutely love going places dressed as a clown," Mr. Monfort, 31, said.
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He bought white clown paint and smeared it over his face and body.
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LONDON — The clown dozes peacefully on the gallery floor, his flabby gut exposed.
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It's been called a "clown car primary" and is sure to confuse voters.
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Within moments I understood that I had been tricked by the laughing clown.
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The documentary Wrinkles the Clown offers no specifics about the man's real identity.
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Will the demonic clown be making an appearance in the Dark Tower movie?
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It is a kind of clown costume similar to the Chilean carnival style.
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Lined all the way to the ankle, but clown pants all the same.
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" Asked about people calling Trump a clown, he said, "I think they're right.
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"None of us can find work because of you two," says one clown.
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Fleck is a clown-by-hire and aspiring comedian living with his mother.
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" Days later, Trump referred to Bloomberg as the "biggest clown of them all.
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Struck by fear, Stanley takes his own life instead of facing the clown.
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It's sort of a clown show type of thing, and that's very destructive.
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A clown seeks laughs, but a fool also aims to save the world.
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Be the best possible straight man, and you'll get the clown next time.
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Oh, right: People also don clown masks and go on a murdering spree.
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In the modern era, if a clown doesn't scare you, something is off.
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It's become the clown car, I think it's like 25 now after today.
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" Another consultant made the point more piquantly: "It's become like a clown car.
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Well, you do start off that thing in a sad clown face. Yeah.
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To help you put all clown-related incidents into perspective, we've compiled this probably unnecessary (and utterly terrifying) map that charts all recent clown sightings across the United States and in the UK. It will give you nightmares for years.
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Proudly known as juggalos, passionate fans of the rap-metal, horrorcore and clown-friendly music duo Insane Clown Posse are fed up after a recent lawsuit filed by the band and the ACLU challenging the FBI gang designation was recently dismissed.
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Here is what I can tell you: First off, I have recently learned that a writer/director who was fully aware of Clown Service when I was making it, actually worked on Louis C.K.'s clown sketch that is in question.
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And it extends beyond the internet—the so-called killer clown craze, which began as a prank and morphed into people in clown masks trying to terrify other people by running after them with knives is YouTube prank culture gone mainstream.
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By the time 500 people were angrily combing the streets on October 3, looking for dangerous cosplayers in what is now being called "the Penn State clown riot," it was clear the nation had a serious clown problem on its hands.
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It's important to keep in mind that as far as we know, the Green Bay clown sighting was one of only a tiny number of cases in which an actual human being dressed up as a clown and did frightening things.
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These are standard gimmicks that follow famous fictional bank heists like the masked presidents in Point Break and clown masks used by bank robbers in The Dark Knight, and as such might not have any connection to the recent clown hoaxes.
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Not even Patch Adams, the American doctor in a clown suit whom she highly regards for his work with sick children, could get her to wear the outfits that those attending his clown tours in hospitals worldwide usually put on.
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He's the most knowledgable about the clown curse, and he's lonely in this knowledge.
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With their business handled, all of the remaining cult members remove their clown masks.
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But for now, people like Sarah will continue to enjoy their favorite demon-clown.
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Yall dumb tryna clown me and bring me down for being what I am.
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"It was my way of getting a reputation as a class clown," he says.
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She said the clown waved at her, but did not approach her or speak.
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He&aposs talking about the caucus -- THOMAS: Please tell me who is a clown.
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" And the reporter, which was really interesting, was like, "Oh, he's a clown character.
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He's like if a clown mixed with a mime and then became Pokémon-ized.
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Gacy was a clown who would dress up for charity events and kids' parties.
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"I'm watching a clown show," said Mudd, the former deputy director of the CIA.
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The kids don't need a clown to scare them — their parents are villainous enough.
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"2015 was a time before elections, the crazy clown stuff," said niche memer @nonrelatablememe.
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Pelka found the tables through Instagram photos of Clown Bar, a bistro in Paris.
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The rebellion Joker inspires appears, behind the clown masks, to skew white and male.
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But what makes the movie so scary isn't a ghost, or a killer clown.
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Twisty and the same clown that appeared in Ally's bed are in his room.
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There is a clown in Ozzy's room, and I think this one is real.
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The clown tells Ozzy he's asleep and Ozzy goes along, retreating to his pillow.
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Did those clown sightings represent the manifestation of our collective fear of the unknown?
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Twisty the Clown from Freak Show, for example, has a prominent role in Cult.
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The delivery guy fromGino's was standing like a clown in his yellow-red uniform.
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She has been a clown for 35 years and has trained hundreds of clowns.
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A REAL clown is a person who is part of a long, long tradition.
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Waves of evil clown sightings have in fact swept the country periodically since 1981.
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At first, the Mule worked his evil plot by disguising himself as a clown.
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But the idea of having a clown on board a spacecraft is not new.
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The tribal council is slightly complicated by Jenna's clown car machinations to deceive Donathan.
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The clown-car that ran over the British establishment has driven off a cliff.
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Intriguingly, by far the most important role seems to be that of the clown.
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Her boyfriend jokes that it might be the killer clown from several decades ago.
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But there is another clown masked assailant in the back seat of her car.
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Thus far, here are the cast of characters: Jordan, a "clown"in gold panties.
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Emblazoned in red ink is the Prime Minister, Najib Razak, depicted as a clown.
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Then, to double down, we explore Bobcat Goldthwait's 1991 black comedy Shakes the Clown.
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I could also do 'shrooms but I am going to do clown class instead.
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Miller said he's beefed up patrols in areas where clown sightings have been reported.
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A 911 dispatcher calmed the man down and the clown escaped unharmed, police said.
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I think he was like dressed as a clown in a nightclub or something.
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Suffice it to say, it's a step up from last week's Shakes the Clown.
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The receiver is then revealed to be the bloody hand puppet of a clown.
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However, several less intimidating clown costumes for adults and children can still be purchased.
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Authorities in Greenville, South Carolina, have had more than 10 clown sightings since August.
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Basically classic Louis CK. That birthday clown thing, though...that was next level depressing.
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This is how far I'm willing to go to get rid of this clown.
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The real fear is that, tomorrow, someone could decide the crazed clown is you.
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The image of a creepy clown is the one that taps into people's fears.
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There was the girl that had the gypsy head to cover up the clown.
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I had a friend, Brian, who was considered a trouble maker and class clown.
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And when it comes to "otherness," a clown has that part down pretty well.
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The first clown is a human teen who wears jeans and red T-shirts.
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"Slipknot's whole recording session just stunk," remembers co-founder and percussionist Shawn "Clown" Crahan.
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By January, he was calling Schumer a "clown" and trashing Arnold Schwarzenegger's TV ratings.
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The most curious example is Tiririca the Clown, whose stage name translates as Grumpy.
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"This clown show is horribly boring," the president's son Eric Trump wrote on Twitter.
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President Trump called her a "clown" during a campaign rally in Montana last month.
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Here's a look at his journey from class clown to suspect in the bombing.
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Insider Picks freelancer Erin Mayer compared its specialized pockets to the clown car effect.
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Last Christmas, Mr. Miranda got himself a new pair of black ice clown fish.
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"Relax knowing that an evil ancient clown is watching you," reads the lamp's description.
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That's President John F. Kennedy with a witch and ... maybe an old-timey clown?
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He's recently dropped politics to follow his passion: being a professional children's party clown.
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They are Juggalos — the fans of the hip-hop group Insane Clown Posse (ICP).
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As an adult, every time they see a clown, the run mechanism kicks in.
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" Trump has fired back, calling the site a "clown show" and a "glorified blog.
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The booty-centric outfit wasn't for laughs though—he isn't a class clown type.
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VICE: Has there been a drop off in business since the "creepy clown" epidemic?
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Whatever it is, the nation is in the throes of a veritable Clown Panic.
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But unless Insane Clown Posse are rolling through town, most Juggalos don't paint up.
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I can't remember exactly when I started thinking, How would a clown do this?
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I feel really free when I'm in clown gear, like I can do anything.
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But it's the way which Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise the clown curls his lips.
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Who sent the clown and why, are questions that have never been fully clarified.
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Jeffrey — a Vietnam vet and former rodeo clown — was also struggling to stay sober.
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And Spike throws a Friday the 13th marathon ending with Stephen King's killer clown.
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The afternoon's clown is the evening's tragic hero; yesterday's princess is tomorrow's wicked stepmother.
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Dimitri Jakob Müller, aka 'Dimitri the Clown' (1935–2016), mime artist and circus entertainer.
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He was doing a ballet about a circus family, and I was a clown.
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A man dressed in a onesie, wearing clown makeup, and lobbing bombs at everything?
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"The great clown mystery has been solved," the police department said in its post.
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She was the goody-two-shoes and the class clown wrapped up in one.
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The roster includes actors, dancers, burlesque performers, an opera singer and a professional clown.
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Clown, for instance, comes freighted with associations: red noses, fright wigs, face paint, fear.
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In 2006, "he lost the nomination to a former professional clown," Mr. Pitcavage said.
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There were paint cans, rolled-up pink insulation and indeed some oversize clown shoes.
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"Crashing" feels like just another sad-clown story centered on a white male comic.
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You don't see me trying to scare people with stories about an evil clown.
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Mr. Simmons, who is 103 and known as Patches, is a dunk-tank clown.
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His campaign signage features the "o" in his name as a red clown nose.
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As Jackie's loyalties become divided, Tink grows ever closer to Bushwhack, the class clown.
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A mannequin dressed like a menacing clown knife-points the way to the exit.
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But I believe that self-identifying as a clown is currently having a moment.
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"You guys can talk to this clown," the senator said, as he walked off.
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It could be that Trump is a chaotic clown incapable of conducting coherent policy.
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One model in clown makeup playfully sticks out her tongue, holding an assault rifle.
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Despite the medical crisis, Xan's still down to clown around with his fave snack.
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And not just because little Mikey begins his murder spree in a clown mask.
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Much of Fields's art practice involves mixed-media interpretations of comically large clown shoes.
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On opening night of The Clown Show, guests were encouraged to come in costume.
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He has also called former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick a "clown" on social media.
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The anonymous creator of the page, called Clown Purge Australia, posted a photo of a clown, with a caption that read "IT" and an emoji of a red balloon, a homage to the blockbuster film that had its premiere in Australia last week.
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"The time has come for a clown to be at the helm of Brazil," said Everton de Souza, 36, a janitor in Rio de Janeiro, promptly naming the man for the job: Tiririca, an actual clown whose name translates to Grumpy in Portuguese.
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But only one of these movies has the kids facing a shape-shifting killer clown.
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On Friday, Victoria Police said it had heard reports of clown events in the state.
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The issue: P.K. Subban danced during a warmup and Mike Milbury called him a clown.
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So I spent way too much time under the stairs with the creepy clown guy.
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The jester, the clown, the fool — I made him into a superhero in this song.
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Every couple of years I tell myself I'm ready to get into Insane Clown Posse.
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" I remember as a kid, you know, my dad going, "Oh, that guy's a clown.
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Pennywise, the murderous clown in It, used red balloons to lure children into his clutches.
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It's thrilling to see Chuckie the clown, to let our brain play with that ambiguity.
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As wild as this sounds, Sumner is, technically, correct: Children can be born of clown.
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Trump unveiled his latest moniker for a political rival Thursday morning: head clown Chuck Schumer.
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Carla Rossi's tour of Vaseline Alley as a drag "clown" is one of the highlights.
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It's no secret that Pukey the CrossFit clown visits its adherents after an intense workout.
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The idea of watching his sad-sack clown descend into violent madness is really promising.
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After all, at the end of the day, they can take their clown makeup off.
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As a clown employed by the state, he makes a salary worth $30 a month.
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Virtually run to the site like Twisty the clown is chasing you with his bat.
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Upon this realization, a clown appears and blows out Ally's candle, sending her into darkness.
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And sure, in all likelihood, yes, he's Gotham City's so-called Clown Prince of Crime.
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They're going to think, like everyone else, 'What the heck is that clown doing here?
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"It all started with the original It," World Clown Association president Pam Moody told THR.
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It wasn't when a North Carolina man was arrested for filing a false clown report.
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Much like the clown painting, this one seems to be trying to tell us something.
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It's not a playful image; he wants to embarrass her, turn her into a clown.
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Pinciaro says that the clown sightings have stopped, but the case is still under investigation.
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Bill Skarsgård is an undeniably delightful-looking human — until he smiles like a homicidal clown.
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Then, when I got older, I too went to clown school for over six years!
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There have been reports of creepy clown sightings everywhere from Georgia to Maryland to Oregon.
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Thanks to PopSugar and the preview for this week's episode, however, one clown got unmasked.
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"Viper," introduces the third before we come to Ferrell who introduces himself as Clown Penis.
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After her harrowing experience with the comic book clown, Ally is in her therapist's office.
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It started in England three years ago with a rogue Bozo nicknamed the Northampton Clown.
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Another woman said she saw a clown standing under a streetlight with a blinking nose.
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My crew had the most difficult time keeping their composure while watching Will clown around.
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There have been six reports within the last week of creepy clown sightings throughout Greenville.
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With more time, the anemones might recover or the clown fish could acclimate to conditions.
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It's always a fucked-up wheelchair from a military hospital or an orphan's creepy clown.
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The intelligentsia of both major parties wrote him off as a buffoon and a clown.
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"All attendees should arrive dressed as a clown in order to attend," the website states.
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At one point, a man in clown get-up actually stabbed a man in Sweden.
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I followed the picture to its root site and found an early clown porn site.
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Check out the video above to learn more about the recent wave of clown panic.
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Be warned, however, that Hurts Donut charges an additional $5 fee for creepy clown delivery.
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The sight creeped people out, and soon the clown was in headlines across the country.
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Unlike many of the previous clown reports, this incident was violent, leaving the victim bruised.
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Another thing Twitter took issue with: Lucas, the clown of the season, won the challenge.
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In May, a clown with bladed gloves actually slashed a man to death in Denver.
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That clown was sucking more than a water bottle when I was done with him.
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Trump earlier this month called Schumer the "head clown" for defending the Affordable Care Act.
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John Krasinski's parents put him in a onesie with a creepy-ass clown on it.
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He looked like a clown with an orange face and white circles around his eyes.
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Social media and the Internet have been powerful amplifiers of the clown sightings, he says.
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Tate spent months creating her Pennywise clown costume, and Krell dressed as the character Georgie.
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There was also the mysterious late-night sighting of a clown waving under a streetlight.
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October 6, 19 This circus-themed welcome to DC sticker features Trump as a clown.
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Team Rising wonders if the clown car of the 2020 election will get any bigger.
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He gets beat up at work (dressing as a clown for a range of events).
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Nothing is more well worn, among theatrical tropes, than the pathos of the faded clown.
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VICE: Tell me about your poster of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak as a clown.
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Fahmi Reza: The original clown-faced Najib Razak artwork was my reaction to two issues.
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I don't know if it's the economy or all this crazy clown crap going on.
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Clown sex is spontaneous, silly, and awkward intentionally, making it a different kind of fun.
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The two-day April concert focused around Insane Clown Posse fandom and getting fucked up.
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One of its inmates (Bill Skarsgard) looks awfully like the clown lurking in the gutter.
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A card can also be someone who cuts up, so the answer is CLASS CLOWN.
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" She added: "Look, I'm always down to clown but this was sneaky, even for me.
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There's the artist who performs in his natural state, and then you have the clown.
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Even though he's a clown, there was always a deep kind of menace underneath it.
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Since August, the creepy clown sightings continued—across multiple states and in variety of situations.
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I'm sure it's terrifically satisfying to clown a man you despise with your TV show.
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America's "Car Clown" culture and "Exploding Volcano of Wastefulness" aside, Adeney is after a revolution.
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Petty then posted on IG, calling Meek a clown and alleging he's a woman-beater.
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The backlash, including threats of violence, looked like a case study of coulrophobia — clown phobia.
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The biggest surge came Sunday when Pornhub saw 291,628 searches for a clown getting down.
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Mr. Vassallo is a "sweet clown" because he was told he has a sweet face.
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The model Bella Hadid recently swanned down the Moschino runway in a sparkling clown suit.
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Exactly 227 years later, the remake starring Bill Skarsgard as the evil clown was released.
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"No one was hiring me when I was just a regular clown," a voice says.
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And so, then the poor clown has to come and knock you off the sheep.
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Gacy worked as a building contractor and sometimes performed as a clown at fundraising events.
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Then I found a balance between being serious and being entertaining — a clown, or whatever.
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Pietro, a Ram that is either wearing a clown getup or just naturally looks terrifying.
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SARA When I was a kid, I had this inflatable, pint-size Bozo the Clown.
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CLOWNS have caused riots and clown hunting at penn state this is the end pic.twitter.
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The next clown hoax was far more typical of the way such rumors usually go.
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The clown hoaxes spread regionally throughout the Southeast US, up the coast, and then west.
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In New Haven, schools have banned all clown costumes for the entire month of October.
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When I come home, I don't have to take off a bunch of clown makeup.
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Others wear the effects of the fire, like "Ashes" the clown with a disfiguring burn.
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The delivery guy from Gino's was standing like a clown in his yellow-red uniform.
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The Clown Show continues at Elephant Gallery (1411 Buchanan Street, Nashville, Tennessee) through November 10.
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The Boston legend created Bozo back in 1959, and played the lovable clown until 1970.
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After Frank had the role some other clown, Larry Harmon, slipped into Bozo's famous getup.
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Perhaps the most famous clown in these modern times, Ronald McDonald, is not immune to the mass clown character assassinations either—McDonald's announced on Tuesday that it'll be downplaying the mascot's role until our nation learns to love red noses and oversize shoes again.
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One day in 2016, "without any warning or explanation," Watts sent a message out over the office intercom: "A creepy killer clown has been seen in the ladies' restroom…repeat…a creepy killer clown has been seen in the ladies' restroom," the complaint said.
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John Carroll Lynch had the honors of bringing Twisty, a deformed clown, to life in his debut, but that doesn't mean that the actor will be reprising the role, or how exactly a clown that (spoiler alert) died will play into the upcoming season.
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Zach Galifianakis plays Chip Baskets, a frustrated man who has grand visions of being a French clown (stage name: "Renoir"), but he flunked out of his Parisian clown school and now has to suck it up at home in the dusty deserts of Bakersfield, California.
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The evil clown had already leaped from the pages of fiction into reality in the late 1970s when real-life serial killer John Wayne Gacy was dubbed "Killer Clown" after it was discovered he dressed as "Pogo" performing at fundraisers and children's birthday parties.
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When I'm having sex with someone in clown makeup, I like the way their beautiful clown face is all pristine in the beginning—then when sexy time is over, the makeup is smeared all over and you've ruined this wonderful art that was created.
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The clown turned out to be a "nice man" in his 70s who "dresses up once a year on his birthday as a clown and hands out candy," the Clarksville Police Department said on its Facebook page on Thursday, which was the man's birthday.
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According to Hollywood Reporter, the Russian arm of Burger King filed a complaint last week with the Russian anti-monopoly board, arguing that Pennywise—IT's evil, child-slaughtering clown demon from another dimension—is an "exact copy" of burger-shilling clown mascot Ronald McDonald.
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At least one early 20th century medical journal contains a sketch of a French nurse in a pediatric hospital done up as a clown, and Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams famously brought humor and a degree of clown shtick into his medical practice in the 1970s.
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As is using a Beautyblender to blur out the clown triangles of concealer under the eyes.
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That evil clown Pennywise, a spectacularly scary Bill Skarsgard (Alexander's brother), is the stuff of nightmares.
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Nick Mauss recreated the translucent, clown-like costume that Cadmus designed for the ballet Filling Station.
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Read: A Graduate of a Prestigious French Clown Academy Explains What People Don't Know About Clowning
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"Arresting a now-compliant class clown for burping was going a step too far," he wrote.
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Surveillance video showed the suspect wearing a clown mask approaching the Little Caesars in Holly Hill.
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Then it came time for public appearances, and that's where the clown makeup came into play.
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But already, its menacing star, the "clown" Pennywise, has successfully spooked one group: the movie's cast.
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She's the clown among her friends, who have seemingly all grown up, and she knows it.
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When the clown pops the balloon, he is swarmed by bees, and nothing could be freakier.
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The creepy clown craze has gotten so out of hand that Batman has had to intervene.
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Graffiti was scrawled on the building reading "Macron the clown" and "Who sows misery reaps anger".
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"We don't need some clown to come in here and stand up for us," he said.
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He did the Pennywise smile on air, and honestly, it's even creepier without the clown makeup.
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Seconds later, they notice a weird balloon pyramid and behind it, Pennywise the clown (Bill Skarsgård).
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The movie featuring Joaquin Phoenix is about a marginalized clown that goes on a killing rampage.
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Which, of course, leads to more clown carnage and a couple of wild tire spin-outs.
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"I was always the class clown," the YouTube star says in the current issue of PEOPLE.
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Authorities in Australia and Canada have also issued clown-related cautions in the last several days.
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The host even had a clown pop out to scare Paulson when she least expected it.
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The dissent: Gorsuch said it's a "step too far" to arrest a "class clown" for burping.
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So far, none of the officers who have responded to these reports has seen a clown.
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Karl: Listening to the lunatics like fucking Johnson, the absolute clown, so well done to him.
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I'd just read It by Stephen King on holiday which fueled a pre-existing clown phobia.
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When he noticed the truck, the man in the clown suit ran quickly into the woods.
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" In another tweet, Abe List said, "you are a ridiculous scum clown-boy James, a joke.
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"She had to be the center of attention all the time, the class clown," she recalled.
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He doesn't dress like a clown, obviously, he just has this classic style of his own.
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The police department also spent much of the day dealing with another clown threat, she says.
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As far as we know, nobody who has reported seeing a clown has been seriously hurt.
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It's like a regular movie showing, but absolutely every single viewer will be a clown. Amazing?
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She ate lunch every day with Donald Fike, the class clown, and studied intently, especially science.
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Chuck Tatelbaum is a bankruptcy lawyer — and he always carries an emergency clown nose with him.
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You laugh when Shylock's servant, the clown Gobbo, contemplates running away from his penny-pinching master.
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President Trump slammed Okoumou as a "clown" during a campaign-style rally Thursday night in Montana.
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Her father was a horrible person, a mean clown, which makes it easier, in a way.
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The Winston-Salem police sent me an email with a report of their own clown sightings.
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We see somebody holding a sign that's shaped like the clown masks that Joker's followers wear.
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Wonder how they finally got it off the wall ... No one will buy that clown painting.
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Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) with a pencil for a neck as well as a clown nose.
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In these cases, people who reported clown sightings refused to give their names to the police.
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Minute by minute, the wheels are coming off the clown car that is the Trump Administration.
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Bill Skarsgard looks immensely different from Pennywise the clown, who he plays in the "It" movies.
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She brought over a drawing of Trump as a clown with a blue nose and fangs.
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The clown was brandishing an ax, according to a Facebook post accompanied by a blurry photograph.
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Mr Johnson was frequently presented as a jovial figure—a clown or Bertie Wooster-style buffoon.
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They do, and he's having a great time—until somebody shows up, and it's a clown.
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