But he could, in fact, tone down the character's clownishness.
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Millions of Trump's supporters aren't blind to the president's clownishness and ignorance.
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The filmmakers capture the circuslike atmosphere, and Steve Carell emphasizes Riggs's clownishness.
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There is an element of onstage clownishness that some audiences might take to be an invention.
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Its clownishness and sexuality aside, the image seems squarely aimed at Mr. Putin's carefully cultivated reputation of hypermasculinity.
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In the campaign, Mr. Johnson stuck to a disciplined strategy, forswearing the clownishness that has characterized his political career.
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For all the clownishness that's transpired these past several days, Clinton's average 6-point lead is way too slim to victory lap about.
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Grave and self-important humanists—notably the towering historian of Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem and the earnest literary critic Irving Howe—were offended by Roth's clownishness.
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What makes Donald Trump a political freak is his clownishness, which is not just a matter of style but cuts to the core of his political identity.
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Nothing could be further, at least on the surface, from the last edition's moral clownishness than the 10th Berlin Biennale, led by the South African curator and artist Gabi Ngcobo.
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Conservative columnist and author Mona Charen, who was booed at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), is bemoaning the tone of "sophomoric clownishness" she says has crept into conservatism.
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The movie collapses the difference between Rudy Ray Moore and the character he created, treating his creativity as another kind of high-spirited clownishness, and his struggle for recognition as a comic hustle.
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Panel discussions investigate why digital avatars and virtual assistants tend to be female (Siri, Alexa, Cortana), how artists are incorporating game aesthetics and mechanics into their work, and how performative clownishness can be a form of resistance.
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Whether via candy, general clownishness, farts—which Howard has deployed as a weapon against a writer featured below—or an oversensitivity about his post-up touches, Dwight Howard eventually pushes whatever team he's on into the red.
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There are endless examples of said clownishness: the silly nicknames he gives his rivals (Little Marco, Crooked Hillary), the wild conspiracy theories he's willing to spread (such as the story that Ted Cruz's father was involved in the Kennedy assassination).
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Tom D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy (1719 for last authorial revision) was another satire that attempted to offer entertainment, rather than a specific bit of political action. D'Urfey (or "Durfey" as he was born) was a stutterer whose clownishness and willingness to be the butt of a joke so long as a joke was told made him a favorite of the nobility and court, and his career straddles the Restoration and Augustan period. Pills to Purge Melancholy is a collection of witty and bawdy songs, mainly drinking songs, with popular favorites such as "The Famous Fart." Although Pope satirized Durfey, he also wrote, in a letter in 1710, that Durfey had a power that he himself did not, for, years after the publication of Pills to Purge Melancholy, Durfey's songs were still on the lips of thousands, while no other poet had such popularity or persistence.
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