Sentence examples for clowning from inspiring English sources

Prior to that, in the Regency and Victorian periods clowning and pantomime was for an adult audience.

Although it was called The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the host never seemed to be happier than when he was clowning around with his correspondents.

I loved clowning about.

He steered the company through a wobbly patch after it opened a new plant, but never seemed entirely at ease with the founders' clowning and campaigning.

Rush Limbaugh is very famous, very powerful and very rich, so I'm not going to let the king of American right-wing talk radio off for simply clowning.

And then there is the pathos of clowning.

The emphasis was on movement, mime and clowning.

During an engagement in Atlantic City, N.J., in 1946, he and another performer, comedian Jerry Lewis, began clowning around during each other's acts.

Most of Heywood's plays are theatrical mélanges employing two or more contrasted plots, poorly unified and liberally laced with clowning.

Clowning around Much was disconcerting in BBC2's Meet the Ukippers, broadcast in February, but nothing more so than former press officer Liz Langton's collection of nearly 2,000 porcelain clowns.

But just as my father was an actor who taught himself clowning, and my mother a dancer who taught herself other skills, I've also taken bits and pieces from all over.