Sentence examples for clowns from inspiring English sources

Related: Carry on laughing - portraits of clowns All of which, Faint admits, can make it a tough audience for clowns these days.

Faint – who worked in professional theatre (he was the original stage manager of The Rocky Horror Show) – was in at the beginning of the Theodora charity, which provides clowns for children's hospitals, but he gave it up last year.

One, Helen Champion (Zenden the Clown), had been painting clowns as part of her fine art degree at Goldsmith's and had gone native.

There are only a couple of clowns under 25 in the group.

"Somebody should make alternate Twitter accounts of all of those ass clowns and constantly post about their strong desire for child porn," read the next comment.

That was echoed by the European commission in Brussels, while the German opposition social democrat leader, Peer Steinbrück, ventured to suggest that the Italians had voted for "clowns".

"The younger generation are disaffected because they look at these clowns in power and they feel there's no point in voting because it's either these clowns or another set of clowns.

The clowns parade over to the packed church and assemble in the front pews, squirting lapel flowers and sitting on whoopee cushions.

Nine candles are brought forward by children for the clowns who have died, and a 10th for the unknown clown.

"The idea of clowns as children's entertainers has actually only been a very small and recent part of the history of clowning," Stott says, by phone.

"They have 30 clowns now, working in 21 hospitals, but the emphasis has become very feminine.