Incidentally, it's also a day when anyone who dislikes clowns should steer clear of midtown New York since no fewer than 33 clown groups, including breakfast clowns, viking clowns, and "aarsome pirate" clowns, will take to the streets.
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Clowns did this creepy work before there were creepy clowns on the loose.
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That sort of made me wonder if other clowns became clowns out of sadness.
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Read: Real Clowns Are Pissed That Evil Clowns Are Giving Them a Bad Rap
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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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That's a line that real clowns don't cross, but these sort of prankster clowns do.
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Translation: Scary clowns on the silver screen, yes; scary clowns you encounter in the woods, no.
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Last fall, creepy clowns terrorized America, with sightings of actual clowns in at least 10 states.
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They're activists, teachers, artists and even clowns (yes, clowns) who have been arrested for their peaceful dissent.
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In Ryan Murphy's latest effort we see clowns, many, many clowns, in eerie, nightmare-inducing makeup and wardrobe.
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The worst is set in a room full of clowns, halfway into a movie that's already all about clowns.
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Fans are encouraged to dress as clowns and sit through the screening in a theater surrounded by fellow clowns.
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Some people legitimately have a fear of clowns and that's fine, [but] real clowns aren't meant to be scary.
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There's a whole community of red-nosed performers, however, who aren't affiliated with circuses, from ministry clowns to rodeo clowns.
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It is a fad to describe clowns as scary, Mr. Becvar said, which he and his fellow clowns find vexing.
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Release Date: May 5 The clown that made you fear clowns forever (or, at least one of those clowns) is back!
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Release Date: September 8 The clown that made you fear clowns forever (or, at least one of those clowns) is back!
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Last year, writer Benjamin Radford published "Bad Clowns," in which he traces the historical evolution of clowns into unpredictable, menacing creatures.
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In 2016, writer Benjamin Radford published "Bad Clowns," in which he traces the historical evolution of clowns into unpredictable, menacing creatures.
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Judy Quest is a board member and past president of Clowns of America International, an organization of clowns that promotes the craft.
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For the past several months, creepy clowns have been terrorizing America, with sightings of actual clowns in at least ten different states.
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Earlier this year, writer Benjamin Radford published "Bad Clowns," in which he traces the historical evolution of clowns into unpredictable, menacing creatures.
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This perhaps explains the escalation of the clown craze, from passive clowns frightening people up to clowns actively perpetrating acts of violence.
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Just a year after "killer clowns" terrorized suburbia in the U.S., creepy clowns are back, perfectly timed for the lead up to Halloween.
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The clowns, from a non-profit called Clowns Without Borders, make their way through the tents and to the top of the hill.
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The second is that "evil" clowns — who seem to represent either people dressed as clowns or professionals who make it their job to dress as scary clowns (like this guy) — are somehow straying outside their professional purview and creepily wandering the streets.
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Thanks to a bunch of creepy clowns walking around scaring people in recent months, there's been a recent resurgence in the fear of clowns.
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Snapshot: Above, clowns attended an annual memorial service in London on Sunday for Joseph Grimaldi, a 19th-century English entertainer who popularized clowns' makeup.
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My granddaughter has been terrified of clowns since she was born, and this boy she is marrying is one of the biggest clowns I know.
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All of this is stressing out regular, non-killer clowns, but it also highlights how little most people think about clowns and the art of clowning.
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Radford told Vox that despite the popular image of clowns in America as happy figures, the reality is that clowns have always had a dark side.
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At first, the dolled-up faces of the show's cult of clowns appear stoic — until the video begins cutting to the clowns in full-on rage mode.
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Yet people continue to be unnerved by clowns, which has been leading to real-life professional clowns losing jobs over the phobia, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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One woman said her son reported seeing clowns "whispering" and trying to lure him into the woods and, later, saw clowns in the same area flashing green lights.
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In some cases, people have apparently dressed up as clowns to prank or menace others — what Radford called "stalker clowns," who may be inspiring copycats of their own.
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You can learn about which clowns have made innovations in the realm of unicycling or building oversized shoes, and which clowns have striven to break the clown glass ceiling.
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While clowns were originally hired to entertain royals and members of the elite class, it seems that nowadays, clowns are more prone to scaring people than making them laugh.
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"We substituted clowns for people who work in the circus but they're not dressed like clowns," Mr. Ferretti said, laughing, in a reference to the recent creepy-clown scare.
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" Through this sincere effort to celebrate professional and amateur clowns who have pure intentions and the desire to spread joy, Anglin's hashtag inspired others to share personal anecdotes about "real clowns.
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But, for the most part, clowns are goofy and kind to children and exist to bring joy into the world — so, what is it about clowns exactly that is so unsettling?
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Another group of neighborhood kids told police that clowns tried to get them into the woods with money and that they thought the clowns lived in a house in the woods.
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At some point in their long history, clowns' exaggerated makeup and goofy voices went from being funny to being instant short-cuts for coulrophobia ( the fancy word for fear of clowns).
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Kentucky, Ohio, New York, Alabama — the clowns were everywhere.
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" She chose the show's theme because clowns "symbolize heartbreak.
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" He added: "These guys are a collection of clowns.
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I'd like to give a formal apology to the clown union if we gave them a bad rep in It. If clowns weren't around this movie wouldn't exist, so thank you clowns.
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In an era of uniquely corrupt politics, looking to clowns seems like a way to experience radical joy Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads NASHVILLE — Back in 2016, it seemed clowns would only continue on their trajectory as icons of all things creepy, as dozens of reports poured in around Halloween of clowns wreaking havoc in the woods.
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We already know this season features clowns and, obviously, cults.
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I just heard you say that black people are clowns.
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They perform tricks, play music and act, well, like clowns.
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Some residents passed around photos believed to show the clowns.
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This is not just a bunch of clowns getting clowned.
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We naturally fear the illogical And clowns embody the illogical.
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That's right, she's deathly afraid of clowns, heights, and bees.
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"Real clowns don't walk around in the dark," said Worthington.
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I fight corrupt US empire clowns all day, every day.
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I loved that all the clowns were napping and resting.
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Lee: No, I feel let down by those fucking clowns.
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Across the nation lurk incredibly creepy (and potentially dangerous) clowns.
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This was Leconte, one of tennis's class clowns, after all.
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Have any New York hoaxes rivaled that of the clowns?
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THIS is how you deal with clowns like the #westborobaptistchurch.
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Mankini's girl explained that her daughter is afraid of clowns.
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Gun and Target With Inflatable Indicator (1967) Don't like clowns?
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Clowns. Can anything freak people out more than biological warfare?
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There's still the clowns, the jugglers, the almost freakish things.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that clowns are terrifying.
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A theater full of clowns that can terrorize alongside him.
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"Us clowns mean no harm," the user wrote on Facebook.
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Then, for several months in 2016, creepy clowns terrorized America.
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Can you imagine the bad karma coming at those clowns?
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We are debt slaves, consumer suckas, car clowns, complainy pants.
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She soon found a regular spot in the Clowns' rotation.
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Some people have been accused of masquerading as clowns on social media, threatening others, including school children; and police have accused others of dressing as clowns in real life to threaten or harass people.
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" Sara's Favorite Showtune: "Send in the Clowns" from A Little Night Music "It's so cliché to pick a Stephen Sondheim song, but 'Send in the Clowns' is kind of the most tragic, perfect song.
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Through the judicious (and compared to the garish circus clowns from your nightmares, restrained) use of humor, songs, and play, these specialized medical clowns try to break the rhythm and tone of clinical settings.
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The appearance of creepy clowns has been reported across the U.S. in recent months, starting in South Carolina, where children told police that a group of clowns had tried to lure them into the woods.
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Meanwhile, her images of clowns made in 2004 have their own kind of darkness — John Wayne Gacy did, after all, dress like a clown — but also call to mind Fellini's incredible 1970 film The Clowns.
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That's the world that clowns the world over appeared to occupy last week when they protested against the movie, including John Nelson, proprietor of the New York City clown-for-hire business Clowns in Town.
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To that end, British clowns have developed a system that sits at the exact intersection of twee whimsy and nightmarish menace that makes clowns such an enduring fixture in both children's entertainment and horror movies.
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And while many who hear of hospital clowns worry about coulrophobia, the fear of clowns, spoiling these effects with stress reactions, another Israeli study from last year suggests that this phobia is actually fairly rare.
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Some of the anti-immigration demonstrators dismissed the clowns as anarchists.
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Nowhere, not even Starbucks, is a safe haven from terrifying clowns.
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"Don't let the Schumer clowns out of this web," he added.
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Pictures of clowns adorn the lobby and room, according to Roadtrippers.
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The clowns got away before the police arrived on the scene.
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If you're afraid of clowns, we insist that you stop here.
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That fear is being cultivated by a group of killer clowns.
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One resident told WYFF her son had also seen the clowns.
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For, as Stormzy has put it, "man don't work with clowns."
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We might never know what these clowns are up to.[AP]
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That is one of the reasons we find clowns so frightening.
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In short: the human brain finds it hard to understand clowns.
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So far no pictures or videos of the clowns have emerged.
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That is the smile of someone who finds clowns absolutely hilarious.
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But how can you stand out amongst a sea of clowns?
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Candy-colored clowns clutter up this catalogue of Parker Day's photos.
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Rubber men, killer clowns, sadistic nuns, surprise aliens... and now, robots?!
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Had clowns been sexual in my mind's eye previous to this?
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Most clowns juggle, dance or make kids laugh at birthday parties.
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I think it's safe to assume that most people hate clowns.
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Read: Ronald McDonald Is Going Away Until People Like Clowns Again
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That's not something clowns usually do, outside of Stephen King books.
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Read: Clowns with Knives Are Apparently Terrorizing Kids in South Carolina
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There's a forlornness to some of these clowns, and a loneliness.
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Kent's not screwing around like the rest of these dehydrated clowns.
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But there were no clowns to be found beneath the stories.
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Why clowns are suddenly spooking people in Britain remains a mystery.
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Jankovic smiled, called them clowns and tried to politely answer questions.
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"I'm going to miss the clowns," he told 8 News Now.
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"They banned me and all clowns," he says, for safety concerns.
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They said that their daughter was crying and petrified of clowns.
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What are the top misconceptions about clowns you think people have?
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Clowns are unsettling enough, we've written articles about this shit before.
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The breed is often referred to as clowns in cat costumes.
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JW: We're going to shove more clowns in the clown car.
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Which means there are a lot of sad clowns out there.
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Sometimes I wonder if those clowns are still in the woods.
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He ruined it by being right — these guys are all clowns.
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Clowns also handily surpass classic fears like heights, needles, and ghosts.
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Perhaps this exhibition especially works because clowns are the great equalizer.
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According to Google Trends, interest in clowns tends to spike each year ahead of Halloween on October 31 but a wave of creepy clowns spotted around the US has brought with it a frenzy of panic.
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What began as a lone sighting of a few clowns in South Carolina quickly snowballed into a full-blown harlequin pandemic last year, with people suddenly spotting evil, bloodthirsty clowns cropping up all over the country.
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The team operated under the name the Ethiopian Clowns for eight years, before changing its name to the Cincinnati Clowns to save face at the hands of protesters, who were calling for it to be disbanded.
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The recent hysteria over creepy clowns that began in the southeastern United States has spread across the country, gone global, upset real clowns, and is now negatively impacting perhaps the most famous clown of all: Ronald McDonald.
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The trailer honestly makes those killer clowns from last month look friendly.
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The Stephen King adapted horror movie It has clowns everywhere in shambles.
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Americans are no longer impressed by regular old clowns, mermaid and strongmen.
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I very much dislike clowns, so this registration we could do without.
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Paulson's character reportedly suffers from multiple phobias including a fear of clowns.
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Scary clowns have had something of a renaissance in the past year.
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Sending in the clowns was not enough to keep Ringling Bros going.
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Of course, I recognize not all clowns are there for the giggles.
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It's not as if clowns were totally innocuous to me before that.
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More women had successful embryo implantations after a visit from the clowns.
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Have the clowns taken over mainstream society after the fall of America?
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Turns out there's no market for French-trained clowns in Bakersfield, Calif.
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The typical circus experience — popcorn, clowns, tricks, and twirls — has been done.
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"The self-deprecating nature of clowns became the perfect fit," they added.
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But horror movies aren't to blame for many people's anxiety about clowns.
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There are some contrarians out there—fetishists, middle school class clowns, etc.
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But don't let anyone tell you your fear of clowns is irrational.
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Ozzy looks into a window, the Chang's being stabbed by the clowns.
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Let's get the live stream going tomorrow and expose US government clowns.
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It's a bad time for Americans with coulrophobia — a fear of clowns.
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Can these clowns surprise unsuspecting New Yorkers with a dose of love?
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I just can't believe I've been talking about clowns for two days.
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White nationalists aren't some uneducated backwater clowns that are going to disappear.
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Is it safer from clowns and the water they spray so cavalierly?
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Why do stand-up comics cede this market to clowns and magicians?
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People are scared of spiders, heights, clowns, and I'm scared of this.
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Creepy clowns were in fashion long before they were in the news.
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What does the "creepy clown" fear mean for the future of clowns?
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And when the show starts, it's not about the clowns at all.
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In recent headlines and conversations, clowns have become a thing of fear.
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One: Not all clowns are secretly serial killers like John Wayne Gacy.
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As two bands played and a man sang, the clowns began shooting.
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A special screening of "It" just for people who identify as clowns?
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Left: People dressed as clowns on a Mardi Gras float, circa 1950.
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He sighed when he was asked to weigh in on creepy clowns.
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Equestrianism was a building block of Ringling, along with clowns and acrobats.
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On Twitter, the Kid Mero, a comedian, called out mixtape-making clowns.
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Clowns had quite a ~moment~ in the latter half of the 2010s.
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I would never let those clowns get their hands on my work.
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Our artists are creating capital or playing the clowns in capital chains.
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"Kids love clowns, but they also fear them; clowns with their white faces and red lips are so different and so grotesque compared to 'normal' people," the newspaper quoted King as saying in an article posted on Friday.
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The clowns, he says, are emblematic of Rondinone's merging of joy and sorrow.
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Some clowns in Arizona definitely aren't laughing, at least not on the inside.
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Visits from clowns have been known to lower anxiety in kids before surgery.
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It was a whole thing: the fall of the weird clowns wandering around.
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Killer clowns aside, sometimes, reality is the scariest American horror story of all.
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Every time we have gone out there we have not seen any clowns.
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Be optimistic Many, many countries have voted in autocratic clowns, monsters, or narcissists.
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Bakers will often "expose" clowns they think have been planted in their forums.
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And I just saw clowns coming out of my belly button or whatever.
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From there, the fear of clowns escalated and eventually extended across the pond.
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There have been more clowns in more cities spotted lurking in the woods.
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For professional clowns, anti-clown backlash is making business even tougher than before.
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He also dared, like all clowns, to expose his vulnerability publicly and completely.
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Don't worry no clowns here in Lititz just 5 teenage girls having fun!
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And, well, clowns aren't renowned for their grasp of those kinds of things.
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And the White House has recognized what class clowns have known all along.
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Several children said the clowns offered them money to come into the woods.
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How do clowns — supposedly agents of humor and good fun — cause such chaos?
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It's easy to see why clowns are sometimes viewed as icons of fear.
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For weeks, a wave of "creepy clowns" has been terrorizing the United States.
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Clown College taught me how to approach people who are scared of clowns.
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How do you feel about people scaring others in the name of clowns?
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They're stalking our neighborhoods, making hoax death threats, and generally being, well, clowns.
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Yep, this space is perfectly designed for all those clowns you definitely have.
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Someone spray-painted "we are all clowns" onto a statue in Santiago, Chile.
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So I want to thank these clowns for all the help they provided.
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Killer clowns, unrepentant extremism in France and a pile of paperwork in Syria.
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Here's a look at other assassination weapons: spiked toothpaste, ice axes, killer clowns.
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It was as jubilant as one imagines a crowd of clowns can be.
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Folks, we're six days into 26 and the clowns are already showing themselves.
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Throughout the country, packs of people dressed as clowns were purposefully scaring people.
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For a long time my Facebook profile picture was one of her clowns.
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In Florida, fiendish clowns were spotted lurking by the side of the road.
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There are no dancing clowns, like in Derry, ME. Instead, there's a face.
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When zoo animals are anthropomorphized, they become "clowns in our world," Holst said.
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"This airplane is designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys."
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Over the two double beds in our room hung portraits of sad clowns.
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Incompetent clowns in power and the opposition turning into a solipsistic personality cult.
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She's sitting there and the elephants, right, and the clowns and all that.
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The Negro leagues were waning when Johnson joined the Indianapolis Clowns in 1953.
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" In a press release, Thunder Bay Clown Club president Dan "Daffy" Baxter said that "our purpose is to provide theater goers with leaflets about the differences between professional clowns and clowns depicted as monsters and villains in film and media.
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Clowns have in the past told me that it seems to stem from the exaggerated stage makeup used in the circus to help people see from the back row, mixed with negative depictions of clowns in horror and other pop culture.
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But until then, Keaton says, all of the exciting developments coming out of Israel and other clown conscious nations just "make our clowns very jealous that we can't get more clowns trained and into hospitals" in the US as well.
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And most importantly, can you spot all the creepy clowns lurking in the backgrounds?
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Real-life scary clowns popped up across the country around Halloween of last year.
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The bad press is leading to clowns losing their jobs and leaving Moody concerned.
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Are the clowns that Ally's seeing real, or figments of a terrified woman's imagination?
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And clowns, for better or worse, are always up for that kind of laugh.
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The clowns casually walk over and stab both her and the cameraman to death.
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She has been a clown for 35 years and has trained hundreds of clowns.
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From telepathic heroes to murderous clowns, here are some of Stephen King's recurring gems.
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Part of it is that our brains simply don't know how to process clowns.
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Somehow, those blood-drenched clowns across the street don't seem so bad right now.
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But then came more claims of clowns trying to lure kids into the woods.
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She's seeing bloody entrees with holes and masturbating clowns until Ivy calms her down.
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Why send in the clowns when you could just send in the Republican lawmakers?
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In 2016, an insanely annoying epidemic of "creepy clowns" took North America by storm.
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The question of creepy clowns even came up during a White House press briefing.
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This current panic notwithstanding, clowns aren't that common, so you can just avoid them.
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He was inspired by his father's biography of Joseph Grimaldi, the greatest of clowns.
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Average annual gross income: $31,589Films like "It" and "Joker" certainly haven't helped clowns' reputations.
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"These were days when history was systematically making clowns of us all," Mario says.
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Given that no actual clowns have been located, could this all be public hysteria?
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MATT Big parties and interviews like this are scarier to me now than clowns.
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Naturally, the reveal came courtesy of a group of creepy clowns at Comic-Con.
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People, I still see Billy and Julie as tragic clowns, but their bile makes
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They were called every name imaginable: dissidents, clowns, jerks, idiots, animals, nuts, and worse.
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The song "Clowns" on their new EP is a critique of the 2016 election.
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Fecund mercenaries, dressed as empathetic clowns, would have us, the survivors, fund the funders.
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"Stranger Things" star Finn Wolfhard paints a horrific picture when it comes to clowns.
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Both artists and clowns can jump on stage, but artists perform an amazing show.
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Kline augmented the antics of the team's inventive clowns with his pure basketball skills.
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Are we encouraging streakers and crashers, clowns and creeps, when we cover their antics?
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His latest book is "Class Clowns: How the Smartest Investors Lost Billions in Education."
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In retrospect, it makes sense that 2016 was the year clowns stopped being funny.
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Then, in August, South Carolina residents began spotting menacing-looking clowns in the woods.
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Clowns in slapstick shoes cross paths with lions waiting in cages for their cues.
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It was put on by Send in the Clowns, the team's official party provider.
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Nothing like we used to do—all the nuttiness, the yakking, herding the clowns.
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"This isn't my first rodeo; these aren't my first clowns," he said of Twitter.
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We'll be standing by to help get you to safety, like culinary rodeo clowns.
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So, that's the exact difference that I was talking about earlier with the clowns.
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When Oz admits he's terrified the clowns will punish him for witnessing the Chang murders, she assures the little boy, "They won't come back for you," with the confidence of someone who knows the precise people the clowns would come back for.
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Explaining the rise of the fear of clowns in his new book, "The Education of a Circus Clown," David Carlyon points to the first Deep Thoughts with Jack Handey on "Saturday Night Live" in 1991: "To me, clowns aren't funny," it began.
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The police were not amused and arrested two of the clowns for disturbing the demonstration.
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These probably aren't the last clowns we'll see roaming around over the next few weeks.
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American Horror Story: Cult has brought forth a gaggle of suspicious characters that aren't clowns.
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Before she exits, she clowns her partner for what she feels was a subpar experience.
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You can thank "It Chapter Two" for the creepy clowns running rampant in your streets.
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Another day, another American Horror Story: Cult promo featuring everyone's least favorite entertainers: demonic clowns.
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As stories of clowns luring children into the woods have circulated, so have false reports.
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Then Winter helps him observe a real life murder scene, complete with terrifying killer clowns.
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Despite the timeless — and uncanny — fascination with clowns figures, the industry is in slow decline.
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Nope, it had to be clowns and it had to be mere weeks before Halloween.
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Perhaps clowns are like specters of anxiety and discomfort, bogeymen that personify our deepest fears.
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Many clowns make their living doing parties, corporate events and working in many other venues.
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Clowns play with this instinct when they distort what the human face should look like.
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"With clowns, you have two arms and legs and a face — it's human," Scholzman says.
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It seems like Ronald would be exempt from being lumped in with the other clowns.
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I wrote to the book's publisher and demanded to know, What the fuck, British clowns?
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As a reminder, Trump often calls people clowns, losers, and haters when he's not retweeting.
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When his parents ask him what happened, Ozzy tells them that it was the clowns.
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The second, "Get a Grip", describes an "upside down" world full of "lunatics and clowns".
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Unless you're really afraid of clowns, he just seems kind of cartoony after a while.
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But for bargain-hunting beer clowns such as myself, the low price tag is enough.
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I saw on your Instagram that you were in a room full of clowns earlier.
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"To this date, we have not identified any of the alleged clowns," Pinciaro tells PEOPLE.
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A woman told Swedish police that two clowns threatened to kill her earlier this week.
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They say the clowns live deep in the woods, near a house by a pond.
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Maybe we're just terrified of interdimensional beings, particularly if they can turn themselves into clowns.
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You'll get contortionists, aerialists, jugglers and plenty of other circus mainstays — and no scary clowns.
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"We'll see if we can get past the clowns and get into something more serious."
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Clowns onstage sprayed bottles of Faygo—the official soda of the Juggalos—into the crowd.
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Through the video he wakes up, I guess, in a world where there are... clowns?
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No one today cares about the prince, daredevils in stretchy fabrics, clowns, fairies, or astronauts.
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It's gotten so bad, police in Utah actually had to advise against shooting random clowns.
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To many of us, clowns—with their wide smiles and harrowing laughs—are absolutely terrifying.
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Experts think there are a couple of aspects to clowns that make them particularly freaky.
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Does anything you're talking about have to do with why people are afraid of clowns?
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And I'll bet he'd bring one of those creepy clowns to the Easter Egg Roll.
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By the time police arrived on the scene, the clowns were nowhere to be found.
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Because if we've learned anything this past year, it's that terrifying clowns get great ratings.
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We caught up with Zombie to chat about the new movie, Christmas, and creepy clowns.
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In South Carolina, several children said clowns had tried to lure them into the woods.
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In South Carolina, clowns were reportedly trying to lure women and children into the woods.
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Send in the clowns, but for the love of God, get them a good therapist!
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CLOWNS have caused riots and clown hunting at penn state this is the end pic.twitter.
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There is no evidence that "evil" clowns exist and are currently taking to the streets.
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They were the perfect example of black men being depicted as not-very-smart clowns.
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But in the eyes of our citizens, there is a graver threat at hand: clowns.
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Just when Ally suggests that they do a press conference with Meadow, the clowns walk in.
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" Anonymous Facebook pages warning of dangerous clowns abound, from "Melbourne Clown Association" to "Clown Purge - Adelaide.
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The only way they can get any traction -- THOMAS: Kevin, are you calling black people clowns?
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I will not sit here on this television show and let you call black people clowns.
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Then there's the one where circles and circles of clowns ring around a blue-haired woman.
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I would revisit the clowns again in the year following the birth of my son, Charlie.
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When the circuses eventually reopened, it was with fewer animals but a full complement of clowns.
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We live in real reality, where literally everyone is scared of clowns, and always has been.
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In between is an adventure of disembodied heads, floating pinwheels and dancing clowns — the scary sort.
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Has Lewis agreed to follow these clowns in a horrific, heroic, hilarious dive off the trapeze?
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Derry, with its nightmarish clowns and general sense of despair and misery, is one of these.
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That is not a scare that people enjoy, because we don't know the scary clowns' motivation.
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This chart was put together by clowns, not competent statisticians, and deserves to be appropriately derided.
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But now, as a de facto adult, you have little chill for clowns and their nonsense.
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He looks out of his window and sees some clowns with weapons pop out of it.
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Her wife, Ivy (Alison Pill), kisses her and reassures her that the clowns are not back.
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This time, the neighborhood kids said they chased the clowns into a vehicle, which drove off.
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Over the past few months, people dressed as clowns have been terrorizing folks across the world.
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Scary clowns are even robbing pizzerias in Germany and forcing McDonald's to reconsider their iconic mascot.
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Cars are also far more dangerous than clowns, and that hasn't kept people from using them.
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A study of 250 children back in 2008 found that almost all of them disliked clowns.
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"So there ARE no "killer clowns"--it's just jackasses being jackasses," wrote band member J-WEBB.
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The two are certainly shown to be venal – but they also come across as ludicrous clowns.
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This is all according to Benjamin Radford, a folklorist and author, most recently of Bad Clowns.
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Lately there have been sightings of what residents call "creepy clowns" in at least seven states.
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More generic clowns were also ranking high, in the ninth spot at one point this week.
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He also implicated his sister-in-law, Rebecca Moody, 27, in calling 203 about seeing clowns.
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" Encouraging his supporters to vote in 2020, Trump added "I see all these clowns on television.
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Professor Griffiths favors the copycat explanation for the sudden proliferation of fake "killer clowns" in Britain.
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In the years since, Emerson has become something like Princeton or Duke, but for class clowns.
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Clowns throughout history have always been a main source of entertainment for people of all ages.
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Video: Nathan Carver Luckily, our fear of clowns seems to be restricted to our jittery continent.
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On their first trip, the clowns had performed inside the island's main refugee camp at Moria.
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"It's important to examine this aspect of care because medical clowns are quite common," he says.
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Read: An 11-Year-Old Girl Brought a Knife to School to Ward Off Evil Clowns
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Most Clowns Without Borders performances occur in war zones or refugee camps, not on a stage.
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The backlash, including threats of violence, looked like a case study of coulrophobia — fear of clowns.
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In 2012, a "white power" march in Charlotte, N.C., was met with counterprotesters dressed as clowns.
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Our record Economy would CRASH, just like in 1929, if any of those clowns became President!
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The dolls, he says in the commercial, represent "the crazy liberal clowns" of today's Democratic Party.
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"These American clowns lie in utter viciousness that they stand with the Iranian people," he said.
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A family of six dolled up as clowns watch the parade from the sidelines in 1956.
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"Another employee wrote: "This airplane is designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys.
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"In my view, it's still a circus being run by a bunch of clowns," Stepanov said.
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Class clowns get applause instead of detention at these showcases for tween and teenage stand-ups.
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The first one is that a group of people dressed as clowns are preying on children.
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There is no evidence that a ring of people dressed as clowns are preying on children.
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At 7, Ms. Riveros applied for the scholarship by submitting two brightly colored paintings of clowns.
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He went to the apartment complex and spoke to a woman who claimed her son had seen clowns in the woods, whispering and making noises, and when she went over to check, she saw several clowns flashing green laser lights in the woods before they ran off.
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Unlike volunteer clowns who show up every now and then and do standard performances for kids, hospital clowns usually get special training to navigate medical settings and either try to become as frequent a presence as possible at the hospital—or take staff positions in them.
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Some homes come with their very own stalker, others sell stocked with a vast assortment of clowns.
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America has been besieged by clowns in 2016 and they're not all hanging out in Trump Tower.
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Nearby Barbourville PD posted a message warning people not to dress up as clowns on Facebook Tuesday.
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Other words that made the shortlist included "alt-right", "Brexiteer" and "coulrophobia" (an extreme fear of clowns).
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If you actually stepped back and looked at the big picture, there were not so many clowns.
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Second Hollywood guy: Mmhmm Hollywood guy: Any chance people will have forgotten about clowns in a year?
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The clowns, Mr. Jeske and Brent McBeth (another Parallel Exit veteran), appear as porters, waiters and guides.
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She becomes more and more reluctant to leave her house and even experiences hallucinations of evil clowns.
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Were the murder clowns and Kai Anderson (Evan Peters) actually connected, or were they a terrifying coincidence?
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In the image, her daughter North, 5, clowns around in bed while snuggling with Saint and Chicago.
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In 2016, repeated reports of creepy clowns across the country fueled the "clown panic" at the time.
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Click here to view original GIFTry as they might, clowns will always be more horrific than fun.
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That's why clowns should work up to a crescendo instead of hitting them hard in the beginning.
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First and foremost, clowns are earnest, which makes them easy targets for ridicule and stereotyping, said Kohlberger.
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The manufacturing gig was was followed by a stint as clowns for birthday parties and private events.
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"It's all part of this national thing going on with creepy killer clowns," said a school spokesman.
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Female gladiators often fought dwarves and were used as clowns in comedic acts between the real fights.
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Cumbria Superheroes heard that many children had been left traumatised by the clowns lurking around the town.
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And in another ring clowns would be putting out a fire in the small house they circled.
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Don't panic, but hundreds of clowns may be lining up at your local Burger King this Halloween.
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"The first few sentences of this story paint Trump's aides as a bunch of clowns," argues Flood.
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We just don't know at this point, because we haven't had the chance to interview any clowns.
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More importantly, how are the creepy clowns that danced in the show's recent promo connected to bees?
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In their innocence, the clowns were like small children, and we responded to them with fond indulgence.
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Dogs and cats, noble souls though they are, have been turned into a class of indentured clowns.
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Mazes, shows, and rides become infiltrated by evil clowns and undead creatures for these dark seasonal attractions.
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Like how the Joker has all these guys dressed up like clowns before Batman kicks their ass.
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It seems like people don't really look up to clowns like they did back in the day.
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When you find yourself on the same side of an issue as these clowns, time to reassess.
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However, we ought to remember that in America, both cowboys and clowns have a history of murder.
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This get-up appears to take inspiration from the popularity of clowns — and clown memes — in 2019.
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The police issued an all-points bulletin, established checkpoints and conducted searches, but no clowns were captured.
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This year, scary clowns, scary dolls and scary suburbanites have drawn audiences to the movies in droves.
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Of course, we are all appalled at the clowns who are bespoiling our culture from the top.
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In memoriam: Tim Conway, one of Hollywood's most enduringly popular clowns, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles.
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The 'PC-ravaged clowns' are on a roll Nothing gets Britain talking like a vegan sausage roll.
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So didn't clean but helped to make the clutter: I always was a clown who hated clowns.
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The parade also has several floats, marching bands from around the country and an array of clowns.
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Several attempts to identify and contact clowns who planned to participate in the event were also unsuccessful.
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People are sick of government, so they are turning to dangerous clowns like Trump as a cure.
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She married Charles Johnson and had a son, Charles, shortly before she started playing with the Clowns.
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The country's repressed anxieties found their outlet in the specter of psychotic clowns and the unknown occult.
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It's a misleading question to ask 'when did clowns go bad,' because they were never really good.
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And remember: So far, no actual clowns have been involved in the Great Clown Panic of 2016.
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More and more hospitals are regularly integrating clowns into procedures or hiring them as full-time staffers.
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All I know going in is that clowns are involved, so I'm mentally preparing for IT flashbacks.
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If watching the new adaptation of Stephen King's novel It surrounded by a room full of clowns, or finding creepy red balloons floating around your neighbourhood wasn't messed up enough, let's amp it up with a group of 'pranksters' dressing up as clowns to scare an unsuspecting public.
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Get the VICE App on iOS and Android It seems like the creepy-ass clowns in South Carolina trying—and failing—to lure kids into the woods have cut their losses and moved up north after people reported encountering very similar clowns in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, WZZM reports.
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Pennington played on barnstorming teams called the Zulu Clowns (they wore grass skirts), and the West Indian Royals.
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The rest of us also started to get exhausted with the way scary clowns were dominating our lives.
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I don&apost know what it is, but I call it a clown show, but clowns are sexier.
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It wasn't until I was undergoing fertility treatments that clowns began to crawl back into my good graces.
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One resident said that her son saw several clowns whispering together and "making strange noises" in the woods.
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As Mashable reported, some people who have begun presenting themselves as clowns online have been making terroristic threats.
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Remember last summer, when there were sightings of clowns all over the place, and people were freaking out?
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" Six clown-related incidents have been reported to Gloucestershire Police: "The reports have mostly involved clowns carrying knives.
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Reports of creepy clowns are popping up everywhere, but it's happened before, when the nation has felt stressed.
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Clowns work in children's hospitals alongside child-life professionals helping to make the hospital a more friendly environment.
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It's because of this that we asked people not to dress up as clowns for this community event.
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I love the Evil Boy Scouts (Nate & Hudson,) but I keep lingering on the Sad Clowns (Noel & Tori).
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There was no evidence of clowns being in the store or loud music playing over the intercom system.
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That was not only the overactive imagination of children, but adults seeing clowns mysteriously appearing in the wild.
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We know our boundaries and our whole goal is to show the world that we're fun-loving clowns.
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"Fake" Eleanor, the show's anti-heroine, is assigned a house decorated in the "real" Eleanor's favourite style (clowns).
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There is little doubt that the "creepy clowns" craze sweeping across the UK should not be laughed at.
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Some of those who reported seeing the clowns claim they attempted to lure children into a nearby woods.
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"We feel that this has done great harm in the business of clowning and for clowns," said McNicol.
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Actual clowns, McNicol explained, have a code of conduct, follow an ethical code, and obey a clown constitution.
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In August, several residents at an apartment complex in Greenville, reported seeing clowns lurking in the nearby woods.
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Oh, and for guests who weren't into the naked chicks or clowns -- there was also a ferris wheel!
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That's what I did, and others also did, and soon clowns were everywhere, agents of a joyous anarchy.
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A lot of people are scared of them, though, because somebody put some negative stuff out about clowns.
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To celebrate the release of "It: Chapter Two," Alamo Drafthouse is planning a series of 'clowns-only' screenings.
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And I get a lot of reaction online, you know, you clowns in (ph) the press, who cares?
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"Why, at a moment when the country desperately needs our A-team, would we send in the clowns?"
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I thought the location was very fitting to show the creepy darkness that is usually associated with clowns.
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The nature of their work allows the organization's clowns to go anywhere they're invited to make people laugh.
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Almost two months ago, people down in the Carolinas began reporting sightings of creepy clowns in the woods.
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Law-abiding clowns are predictably upset, and have organized at least one "Clown Lives Matter" protest in response.
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The musical restores Bert and Kitty (Arnie Burton and Kathryn Fitzgerald) as clowns and goes in another direction.
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It means a whole lot of parents will be forced to juggle like court jesters and circus clowns.
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The anonymous art collective Indecline hung eight clowns dressed in KKK robes from a tree in Richmond, Virginia.
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The festivities often feature light and music shows, and clowns and jugglers who throw candy to the crowds.
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Its act — clowns, jugglers, snake charmers — has a tired feel, and performers complain about a lack of investment.
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Mr. Trump referred to the 26 debaters in Ohio as "clowns" who would wreck the economy if elected.
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Brawling with bandanna-clad antifas may seem romantic to some disaffected young men, but being mocked by clowns?
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"The carriage weighed something like five thousand pounds, but there were clowns painted on the side," he said.
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"This airplane is designed by clowns, who are in turn supervised by monkeys," one employee wrote in 2017.
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When they were children, they said, they performed frequently in comedy and improv, and as clowns for hire.
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Clowns were seen loitering by a laundry room in Florida and chasing people down the street in Idaho.
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It will take more than a creepy clown with a red balloon to scare off these professional clowns.
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But maybe we clowns will pause the next time we want to send that triple (or quadruple) text.
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He invited Missouri rodeo clowns who mocked Mr. Obama in a controversial skit to perform in his district.
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"My son was crushed to death, and these clowns are still sitting here," he said of the bureaucrats.
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In the process, the idea grew that the nonexistent clowns were trying to lure children into the woods.
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"It is the inherent ambiguity surrounding clowns that make them creepy," writes Frank T. McAndrew at Scientific American.
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When we moved to Baltimore, Future Islands was the serious kid in a class full of class clowns.
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Over the past three decades, clowns have worked their way into the fabric of hospitals around the world.
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It's already much deeper than the clowns that don't want the statue of the Confederate general torn down.
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The clowns first rambled into the soldiers' path on a recent weekend patrol, honking horns and singing nursery rhymes.
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So many of the great men and women of the FBI have been hurt by these clowns and losers!
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THOMAS: I&aposm asking him, since you want to call people out and say that black people are clowns.
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The theory matches up with what we've seen: a group of masked killer clowns taking the lives of victims.
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Another issue: wouldn't sitting in a theater full of clowns make the evil clown onscreen a lot less scary?
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These clowns, often encountered by non-initiates without context or commentary, have sparked or fed controversy about CrossFit culture.
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But as more and more details unfolded — it would be called Cult, there would be scary clowns, and... bees?
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They give away much, other than the clowns are butchering people in the town where the season is set.
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Ghosts, zombies, furry animals, clowns, astronauts, dinosaurs and super heroes with capes are great costume choices for staying warm.
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The impostors are taking away the joy clowns can bring without thinking of the real consequences of their actions.
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Schärer portrays them larger than the men, who often appear as clowns or balding, comical figures with phallic noses.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that scary clowns exist to scare kids no matter what decade it is.
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Clowns hide behind masks, preventing us from seeing what they are feeling, thinking or even guessing their true emotions.
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Clowns are scary because they have unpredictable motives, are otherworldly, have exaggerated features, and wear makeup that dehumanizes them.
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Monday night someone called the police when they said they saw two people dressed as clowns in their backyard.
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Rondinone's series vocabulary of solitude, featuring 45 life-size clowns cast from real bodies, is wonderfully eerie and sad.
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The duo are typically dressed up as scary clowns or horror movie icons like Freddy Krueger or Michael Myers.
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It's hard to imagine Michael Dell relishes rejoining the "circus clowns," but he may not have other viable options.
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The government now has a list of over 4,000 images they consider "extremist propaganda," including, apparently, memes of clowns.
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Now—regardless of what sect they belong to—there's finally a place for all those clowns to get together.
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Hundreds of Penn State students took to the streets after word spread that clowns had been spotted on campus.
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The clowns may lurk in the woods, menacing children with knives and chains, but menacing was all they did.
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Report: Bannon calls white supremacists 'a collection of clowns' "We're at economic war with China," Bannon told the Prospect.
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But the specter of killer clowns terrorizing neighborhoods all over the country—across the globe, even—is decidedly unfunny.
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These horrifying stories, along with gags like Berry's, have only helped to give real, professional clowns a bad rap.
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And because clowns are scary as fuck, Young understandably cocked his fist back and tried to clock the man.
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The researchers asked about which professions are the creepiest—clowns, followed closely by taxidermists and then sex shop owners.
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Police also began cracking down on false reporting and the stalker clowns, as in a recent case in Kentucky.
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If you're afraid of clowns, for example, you don't have to go see It or go to the circus.
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Officers received numerous calls of "creepy clowns" in different areas of the city but found none, the police said.
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As a child, he became infatuated with the circus and with the films of the great Hollywood silent clowns.
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Everything in the couple's life revolved around jokes and clowns and because hyenas laughed they were a natural fit.
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" Then-chief economic adviser Gary Cohn says Trump is "dumb as [poop]," and is "an idiot surrounded by clowns.
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One look at these portraits of clowns and demonic masked figures is enough to send chills down your spine.
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Werewolves, haunted houses, possessed children, and a few garden-variety murderous psychopaths appear, plus a few too many clowns.
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"It was more acceptable for guys to be clowns, and girls were expected to be more together," he says.
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I think people have the right to be afraid if people are dressing up as clowns and [scaring people].
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"Everyone thinks falling is funny, everyone thinks dramatic dying is funny," said Molly Levine, director of Clowns Without Borders.
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He called the far-right a "collection of clowns" and said that the media gives them too much attention.
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Tamara Palmer is a team logistician with Clowns Without Borders, which first traveled to Lesbos in October last year.
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The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, thanked the "clowns" who protested Justice Kavanaugh's ascension and helped unify his party.
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Police in the central Georgia town of Dublin say that there have been seven reported sightings of clowns recently.
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And then there were those who said that whatever had happened, it had not changed their view of clowns.
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Real clowns are being lumped in with a disturbing group of people who are sadly perpetuating a sick myth.
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Also among the top ten are clowns, Fortnite, Chucky, and the 1980s, because nothing has really changed since 2017.
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" Pera replied to the earlier Citron tweet with his own, saying, "My apologies to those affected by these clowns.
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He said "American clowns" lie to the public when they say the US is with the people of Iran.
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"These are grown men who put on makeup and try to entertain children," Mr. Skarsgard said of professional clowns.
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In Australia, near hysteria broke out after a mysterious Facebook group promised to send 50 clowns to one spot.
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They're too proud of their Sicilian heritage to display white noses like a bunch of clowns in the circus.
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"My father and grandfather were clowns in a little circus in Italy," said Mr. Vassallo, 37, the head clown.
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The creepy looking clowns appeared, creating mass hysteria,And the mannequin challenge is the newest craze in the area.
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Usually, when I start performing, people warm up to me very quickly, regardless of their past feelings about clowns.
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It's sparked interest in other fields, like psychiatry, where new bridges are being built between humor, clowns, and practice.
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Although the clowns left at the manager's request, police are still hoping to bring the pranksters in for questioning.
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More specifically, we knew we had to include images from Sherman's 'Clowns' series, which she created between 2003-2004.
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The room closes in on me as soon as Mom shuts the door, and I start seeing clowns everywhere.
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They said that just as in Batman's Gotham City, the heroes are the vigilantes, and the clowns are the villains.
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The future has racebending, scary clowns, and perhaps even the second coming of Jesus heading our way in short order.
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" She wearily replied, "We're 25 fucking minutes behind already, but I think the clowns and the other DJs can adjust.
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And really, after our heroes triumphed over the embodiment of death, were we supposed to be afraid of these clowns?
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He was an oasis of calm and quality, while all those around him looked like clowns running across a minefield.
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"Freedom of choice is what you got / Freedom from choice is what you want," those Devo clowns said in 1980.
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If you're a big wuss or have an inexplicable fear of clowns (like me) then perhaps you should turn away.
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When Mr Fo won the Nobel prize in 1997 he received it on behalf of all mummers, tumblers and clowns.
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With rubber noses and floppy shoes in short supply at home, clowns buy them when they or friends go abroad.
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"It's easy to attract people when you go into the community and people see you dressed as clowns," he said.
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But the clowns are already there and this is the first time we get to see the masks up close.
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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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Killer clowns are everywhere this fall, thanks to the film remake of Stephen King's It and American Horror Story: Cult.
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It's hard to say why clowns are this season's reigning bogeymen, but there are precedents for this candy-colored hysteria.
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Are clowns really running amok in the small South Carolina city, or are kids' imaginations taking them for a ride?
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She went to the area to investigate and said she saw several clowns in the woods flashing green laser lights.
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Which is why I prefer not to watch people dressed up as nerds mugging around a soundstage like dancing clowns.
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That Trump would call Scarborough and Brzezinski clowns, while himself writing an oafish tweet, is a nifty example of projection.
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Or how about that other very quaint two-bedroom that we'd describe as cozy with a heaping spoonful of clowns?
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In the 213s, Gacy appeared at children's birthday parties as "Pogo the Clown" and also regularly painted pictures of clowns.
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In the 153s, Gacy appeared at children's birthday parties as "Pogo the Clown" and also regularly painted pictures of clowns.
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In our drinking spaces we behave like fucking clowns but simultaneously respect the amber-lit confines of our public houses.
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It is a "real thing" in the sense that there is a word for "fear of clowns," which is coulrophobia.
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Well, Young must've told Andrus that he was terrified of clowns, because Andrus knew just how to push Young's buttons.
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It's definitely clown-ish, which means that the show is continuing in the theme of clowns with affinity for bees.
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Copycats soon arose, and there were high-profile stalker clowns in Staten Island, New York, France and elsewhere, Radford says.
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From superhero teams to scary clowns, here are 10 costume ideas for you and your pet to match on Halloween.
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First there were the reports in Greenville County, S.C., of creepy clowns offering children money to come into the woods.
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But never does it seem as if the company is mugging; the director and performers have created characters, not clowns.
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The politics of grandeur, he shows, need not be the exclusive province of bullies and gangsters and crooks and clowns.
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"They joke that the president and Congress are all clowns," Lough said when announcing his bid, according to The State.
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Departing, Pauline grabbed a moment to organize one last selfie with her mother and a few out-of-costume clowns.
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Some people are already scared of clowns, but now with all this extra-exposure, do you think that's being amplified?
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It's just sad that people are terrorizing people in any form, but the fact that they're choosing clowns is bad.
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All of the clowns are total precursors to the clown with the tear-away face in The Nightmare Before Christmas.
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For this, we should pay attention to real clowns, not the creepy people of the world looking for cheap thrills.
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He is also the author of a study that investigates hospital clowns from the perspective of pediatricians and pediatric residents.
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He did vaudeville, more or less, a lifelong act where he played the straight man to a host of clowns.
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In Switzerland, the day was marked by more playful protests, as clowns wiped down a Swiss police car in Zurich.
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Nevertheless, reports of sinister clowns have spread to at least 193 states, and abroad, causing school closings and several arrests.
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They date from at least May 1981, when the cryptozoologist Loren Coleman coined the term "phantom clowns" to describe them.
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I saw some stories on social media from people that dressed up as the clowns explaining why they dressed up.
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Trump called the Democratic candidates "clowns" and claimed the economy would crash if any of them were elected next year.
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The box office success of the new film adaptation of Stephen King's "It" has put evil clowns front and center.
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If Australian news outlets and social media are to be believed, "20,000 anonymous clowns" are plotting a reign of terror.
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And I realized that that's what we're doing with the church: We're beating the shit out of those evil clowns.
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And, no, I don't mean the clowns we see on TV pumping out conspiracy theories like they were balloon animals.
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In the 20163s, Gacy appeared at children's birthday parties as "Pogo the Clown" and also regularly painted pictures of clowns.
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Radford told Vox that his biggest fear related to the current clown panic is not the clowns but ordinary people.
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"They're a bunch of clowns who think that using the subway for one day is some big deal," he said.
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She's scared of small holes and clowns, and the political climate is making her even more fearful of facing either one.
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Two more reports, each from a different apartment complex in the Greenville area, have come in of children reportedly seeing clowns.
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HEGSETH: He said what she said -- THOMAS: Just like I don&apost think Kevin Jackson should be calling black people clowns.
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" Trump had referenced Strzok as recently as this weekend in a tweet where he called Strzok and others "clowns and losers.
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" This, she added, includes "dogs, raccoons, pythons, monkeys, parrots, as well as trapeze, magic tricks, illusionists, an iron man and clowns.
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"We are natural clowns," says a payaso who combs his hair into a spiky ponytail that resembles a Wi-Fi antenna.
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"Clowns", "party entertainers", and "party-service providers" are among the 181 jobs that may now be done by self-employed workers.
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In a world filled with scary clowns, it's nice to know that one scary clown isn't so scary in real life.
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Residents Donna and James Arnold told BuzzFeed News that their sons saw the clowns and that Donna filed the initial report.
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Another one of Winter and Oz's bizarre conversations helps reveal what, exactly, her connection is with the killer clowns running around.
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That would explain how the clowns keep ending up in the Mayfair-Richards home: Winter is opening the door for them.
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After crossing the pond, creepy clowns are now riding mobility scooters — at least according to a video that has emerged online.
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Then, there's the practical fact that during the moments the clowns appear in the episode, Ivy is nowhere to be found.
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I also recommend watching "Music and Clowns," Alex Widdowson's witty and warm story of life with a sibling with Down syndrome.
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These videos feature his children being "scared" by clowns, and adults mock-wrestling and handling a diaper covered in fake poop.
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Recently, schools cracked down on non-politically correct outfits, from creepy clowns to Caitlyn Jenner, and just about everything in between.
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It's an expression of human anxiety Clowns are a source of childlike amusement, but they can also be scary and weird.
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Last year, a global fad led to a spate of people dressing up as scary clowns and frightening or threatening locals.
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The convention, which culminated with a disco-themed banquet, was an exuberant retort to recent news portrayals of clowns as boogeymen.
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IT is so jam-packed with hideous monsters and lanky, child-murdering clowns that it's easy to overlook the smaller details.
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He also has no idea if the incidents are somehow connected to the promotion of an upcoming film that involves clowns.
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The Troup County Sheriff's Office responded on Wednesday to a report of people dressed as clowns standing outside a white van.
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Dumont hatched the idea after watching a Sunday baseball game between circus clowns in Wichita for the week and local firemen.
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But as my grandma used to say, when times were tough, when God closes a door, He clowns on Chris Christie.
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I'd take them any day over the ugly Republican/right wing brew of clowns, racists, white supremacists and climate change deniers.
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Like it or not, creepy clowns have become a formidable force in the cultural zeitgeist over the last couple of years.
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Back in the middle of August, there were reports that clowns were lurking in the woods outside the town of Greenville.
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" She continued: "If you want to build some kind of community space, don't let murderous clowns on parole use your bar.
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According to H&R Block, clowns filed the fewest returns, indicating that this creepy profession may be on its way out.
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One of my colleagues, Katie Rogers, wrote about sightings of people dressed as clowns in Greenville County, S.C., on Aug. 30.
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I cast numerous emails and phone calls in search of associations or professional clowns in areas where the sightings had occurred.
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"The suspects indicated that they would be dressed as 'creepy clowns' and would be driving a white van," the department said.
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He shook his gloves off and quickly landed a series of right hooks before my teammates swarmed him, like rodeo clowns.
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"I was about 14 or 15 when I discovered the subculture of both pornographic and non-pornographic clowns online," he says.
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She says she didn't feel embarrassment around her sexual feelings towards clowns until she was shamed by her first serious lover.
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Maybe, but those were the actual findings from a recent Vox analysis that looked into the fear of clowns, or coulrophobia.
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Stephen King knows scary, so if he tells you that only 50% of clowns are murderers, you should probably believe him.
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First, a woman reported seeing three clowns in a car in the Middle Georgia State University parking lot on Thursday night.
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Nawres Douzi, a 21-year-old student, was part of a youth group that came to the demonstration dressed as clowns.
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But he said clowns regularly bring joy to children and adults alike — at birthday parties, in hospitals and at volunteer events.
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While Pennywise and the Joker have been literally tearing up our screens, it's been pretty a tough time for regular clowns.
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When the homicidal clowns fronting IT and Joker try to join the (sad) party, there's just one thing on the table.
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"Burger King knows how annoying clowns can be," Diego Suarez, the restaurant's head of global brand marketing, said in an email.
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The game's communists know exactly what is broken but are only ever naïve clowns, corrupt hypocrites, corpses, or something in between.
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday went after U.S. leadership, calling them "American clowns" while leading prayers in Tehran.
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"This airplane is designed by clowns, who are in turn supervised by monkeys," an employee wrote in an exchange from 2017.
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And like most clowns in popular media these days, I absolutely do not trust him further than I could throw him.
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One of these clowns is Franz, a Dietfurt native with a strong local accent, tattooed arms, and a flashy metal necklace.
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Una vez fotografió una colección de cientos de huevos pintados como payasos de la colección de la asociación londinense Clowns International.
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Recognizable subjects in the mists of these dynamic compositions include clowns' faces; half-human, half-animal hybrids; and glowing, ectoplasmic heads.
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Just to clarify, more than one-third of Americans want the FBI to invest its time and resources into investigating clowns.
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She pokes fun at how we allow our identity to be defined by others, even when they define us as clowns.
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His curiosity has led him to capture some fairly esoteric subjects, like the parakeets ("budgies") raised competitively among a subset of mostly older male Britons, and something called the "Clown Egg Register," a collection of over 703 eggs painted to look like clowns and owned by Clowns International, a society established in London over half a century ago.
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It's a whole circus parade of sounds and effects: brass band, clowns, aerialists, prancing horses, confetti showers, giant papier-mâché monster heads.
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The It film has become extremely popular so it was only right that clowns have the chance to talk about their issues.
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But like many trends—normcore, Pokemon Go, killer clowns—it had its time in the sun and then society swiftly moved on.
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Their makeup makes them look like clowns — which makes sense when you see that the building they're in is called Clown Motel.
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In Sweden, a teenager was hurt by a knife-bearing clown, and another man was assaulted by three people dressed as clowns.
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The first sighting happened in South Carolina, where a group of children claimed that clowns tried to lure them into the woods.
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Kaytranada & Snoop Dogg dropped this weekend and features the rapper and a cast of clowns, including one played by actor Michael Rapaport.
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If you're not dying to see new Stephen King adaptation It this weekend, well, it's very likely that you're terrified of clowns.
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The fool: Feste in "Twelfth Night" Ten times as educated as the aristocrats he entertains, Feste is one of Shakespeare's wittier clowns.
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And for many people, the role of a clown as supervillain bolsters a long-held conviction that double-faced clowns are evil.
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The Juggalos have gotten a lot of media attention in the last few weeks, first because their movement seemed outwardly ridiculous — clowns!
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There are creepy clowns, an election night flashback, and lots of screaming in this first trailer for American Horror Story's new season.
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This debate thrives in large part because so few people know anything of the clowns' origins, what their creators intended for them.
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A whole bunch of clowns, lots and lots of bee imagery, and Evan Peters and Sarah Paulson once again portraying love interests.
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With categories like Clowns, Castles, Horses, Kings, Moons, Musicians, Ships, and Swords, the word cloud reads like a list of Jungian archetypes.
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But still, we need an explanation for why, all of a sudden, there are clowns running amok in our neighborhoods and imaginations.
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Obviously, if we're going to get all upset about clowns, social media users are going to find a way to cash in.
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They discuss the variety and honesty of Rembrandt's self-portraits, then after a solemn silence turn to clowns and then to acting.
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The bizarre craze seemed to be confined to the US, where sightings of so-called creepy clowns emerged in the late summer.
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From sewer-dwelling clowns to dead, grasping hands, here are the scariest moments from the film's first official trailer, which dropped Thursday.
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She explains that her not-so-grand entrance was an object lesson in why clowns can make kids sob and grownups cower.
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People invested both time and money to watch two widely hate-loved internet clowns smack the spit out of each other's mouth.
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Manuel "Manny" Calaverawas our guide to Tim Schafer's unique vision of the underworld, full of criminals, corruption, revolutionaries, and party balloon clowns.
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As the creepy clowns craze sweeps across the UK, a caped crusader was summoned to chase the evil creatures and protect children.
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Psychology, however, can help explain why clowns—the supposed purveyors of jokes and pranks—often end up sending chills down our spines.
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Speaking of clowns, earlier on the show, Desus and Mero discussed Trump and his terrifying—yet not so bright—die-hard supporters.
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Witnesses told police they believed the clowns lived at a nearby home, but Greenville County Police said no evidence was found there.
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You can be afraid of clowns and also know a clown isn't going to sneak up and murder you in the street.
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The outcome, however, doesn't just unsettle Ally, but also unleashes a series of dormant phobias, including her fear of (sigh) homicidal clowns.
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For those worried about the repeated reports of creepy clowns across the country, there is good news and there is bad news.
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"The fact is, to date, there are no confirmed reports of any clowns actually abducting, harming, killing [or] molesting kids," Radford says.
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Those tools serve as a canary in the coal mine — or, in the case of the clowns, more like a rubber chicken.
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Sightings of scary clowns, a national craze reported to have originated this summer in South Carolina, swept into California in recent weeks.
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It also started to run community programs — sending vaudeville acts to nursing homes and clowns to hospitals to amuse very sick children.
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Several children said that clowns were offering them money to follow them into the woods, close to the house by the pond.
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From zombie families and killer unicorns to clowns and mermen, this film has just about everything anyone could ever be scared of.
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His paintings of clowns, dancers, musicians and bullfighters were exhibited in a solo show at the Galerie Hervé in Manhattan in 1956.
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Grimaldi and most clowns of that time were able to poke fun directly at the monarchs and aristocracy without fear of consequences.
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And it's taking a toll on the real clowns, who just want to hear a laugh at the end of their gags.
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Three: You have to be like a really good athlete to be a good clown—the truly brilliant clowns are physical geniuses.
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The new update includes access to Unicode 9.0, which includes a bunch of new emoji, including bacon, the shruggie and clowns (why?).
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It wasn't senility melting the edges of form and letting the clowns and tragedians cross-pollinate; experience and mastery were doing that.
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Even within Bisttram's more figural "Koshares" (1933) the limbs of individual K'osha Clowns seem to multiply, becoming almost autonomous from their owners.
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The reported sightings played on a cultural fear of clowns and eventually led to at least a dozen arrests in multiple states.
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Some wore patent-leather loafers that looked like what Pilgrim clowns might wear, with huge aluminum safety pins in place of buckles.
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Medieval and Renaissance mountebanks often employed elaborate shows featuring musicians, clowns and performing animals to captivate an audience on the town square.
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Eventually, the phenomenon inspired American Horror Story: Cult, which said the clowns were a result of the turmoil of the 2016 election.
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Move over clowns, masked men, and ghosts because In The Tall Grass will make you terrified of rocks and fields of grass.
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"I have long thought that drag queens need to be the performers at children's parties, rather than magicians or clowns," she said.
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Up on the theater's grand terrace, clowns peeled potatoes for an all-white dinner, since the eccentric Satie ate only white food.
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Up on the theater's grand terrace, clowns peeled potatoes for an all-white dinner, since the eccentric Satie ate only white food.
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Vivacious doesn't begin to describe this woman, as she struts, cajoles, clowns and vamps, while Brick keeps refilling his glass with whiskey.
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This year's show includes Fresh the Clowns, internet dance sensations from Detroit, as well as performers from Ethiopia, Guinea, Russia and China.
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Moody said several professional clowns in the organization saw business slow, but the majority of entertainers were able to continue their craft.
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Hated: Clowns Remember in 2016 when the whole country was freaking out over a rash of unexplained (and mostly unverified) clown sightings?
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There were simulations of a hundred sorts: clowns, demons, heroes; folk from far stars and ancient times; creatures of fantasy, nightmare, faery.
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The fact that the clown was there seemed to be all it took to spark the wave of coulrophobia — fear of clowns.
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In Arizona, teens robbed two fast-food restaurants wearing clown masks, and in Tennessee, men disguised as clowns robbed a Memphis bank.
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Famous friendly weatherman Willard Scott portrayed both clowns in popular culture, "graduating" from playing Bozo to originating the appearance of Ronald McDonald.
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Among voters ages 18 to 29, nearly one in three admitted to at least a minor case of coulrophobia — fear of clowns.
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In contrast to the corrupt figures at the helm of the circus that is our American government, most clowns now seems quaint.
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The Alamo Drafthouse theaters in Austin, Texas and Brooklyn are making waves with their screenings again, and this time it involves homicidal clowns.
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They aren't just "sad clowns"; given that there are so many of them, they fill the space in a claustrophobic kind of way.
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Mood: Everything in my eyeline is steeped in portent — a boy's sock, some lady's Levis, most cups of coffee, for sure all clowns.
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The clowns (seemingly led by Kai) start picking off neighbors pretty early, leaving behind bloody smiley faces and fear that leads to chaos.
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The clowns call themselves the Loldiers of Odin and have emerged on the scene in the past few weeks as champions of multiculturalism.
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One of the more disturbing new scenes revealed in the trailer introduces a room full of menacing clowns of all shapes and sizes.
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"[Our kids] mentioned, 'Mama, there's clowns out there in the woods and they're trying to get us to come out there,'" Arnold said.
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After the nightmare that was the cocktail party came the rose ceremony, where JoJo finally got to send some of these clowns home.
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"How did we let these clowns come this close to presidency" asks a nation on its 6th month of mourning a gorilla pic.twitter.
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But importantly, the few sillier or eccentric characters of that era that are more Abbi and Ilana's speed were tokenized as class clowns.
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When clowns came into the clinic, telling jokes and passing out fake flowers and generally distracting women from their frenetic worrying, it helped.
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She sang "Send in the Clowns" at one point, and even rode around the stage on a pink tricycle while honking a horn.
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Stingy with freedom and consumer goods, the communist system provides plenty of subjects for comedy, though clowns must be cautious in exploiting them.
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It's pretty safe to say that we collectively caused this Killer Clown Season by freaking out about the clowns so much last year.
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Residents of a South Carolina town are reportedly being warned of a group of creepy clowns trying to lure children into the woods.
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Children in two other local apartment complexes, Emerald Commons and Shemwood Apartments, also said they had seen wandering clowns, according to Fox Carolina.
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Neighborhood children told police that they think the clowns live in an abandoned house at the end of a trail, according to WYFF4.
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He can't tell if he's awake or asleep when the clowns come and he nanny simply suggests that he ask, and walks out.
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The nihilistic beat disguised despair in cheerful tones, and the audience laughed uncertainly at the clowns' misery, identifying those problems as their own.
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There have been multiple reports of sightings of creepy clowns across the Southeast – several of them false, authorities in multiple states are alleging.
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" Sitting down with her sisters the next morning, Kim didn't sugarcoat her opinions, point-blank telling them they looked like "f—ing clowns.
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We are continually learning the craft: REAL clowns can make balloons, paint fun faces, do silly magic, perform in skits and in parades.
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Although Kim called her sisters "f—ing clowns", Kourtney and Khloé don't seem to be holding a grudge against the KKW Beauty mogul.
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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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In the promotional video launching their "Scary Clown Night", a Burger King worker is being chased by clowns to claim their free whoppers.
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These media clowns who&aposve never spent a minute in a real job outside of journalism school, what&aposs your plan, you jokers.
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Heck, we even got in on the action by having some scary-as-hell clowns test-drive some knives in the MUNCHIES kitchen.
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To refresh, one of this year's most terrifying trends arose in August, when people dressed as clowns began terrorizing folks across the world.
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Sure, when some of us think of clowns, we imagine joyous birthdays, grown men driving tiny cars, and maybe the nightmare-inducing Pennywise.
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They represent Clowns Without Borders, a group of volunteers who work tirelessly to bring cheer and laughter to the children at the camps.
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Circus clowns are certainly on a decline according to multiple reports, but that doesn't mean some people still aren't choosing this lively career.
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Needless to say, clowns get a pretty bad rap, and it might be difficult for Perchetti to get the property off his hands.
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That's why he's so scary; that real clotted texture of the makeup or fuzzy wig that makes clowns so horrible as a kid.
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Blame iPhones or blame animal cruelty or blame the redundancy of clowns given our current administration, but all the circuses are closing down.
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Cattelan pulled up to the scene on a folding bike, sliding into my view the way clowns in miniature cars take center stage.
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Until they get to the bottom of things, the verdict's still out on where these freaky clowns came from, or what they want.
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Also forced is a running gag about Todd (Aaron Paul), BoJack's accidentally entrepreneurial slacker friend, creating a pediatric dental service staffed by clowns.
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The class clowns who merrily threw spitballs at New York's artistic landscape three decades ago are now, in more ways than one, seniors.
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" In messages from April 2017, one Boeing employee told another: "This airplane is designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys.
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"This airplane is designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys," one unnamed employee wrote in an April 2017 instant message.
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There's the Stephen King book (and movie adaptation) called IT, which is why I think a ton of people are scared of clowns.
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For professional clowns, their worst nightmare is to walk into a party and have a child or an adult be afraid of them.
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I've had a couple of particularly rambunctious class clowns who are always on the lookout for an opportunity to make an obscene joke.
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From here, the group of clowns will noisily make their way through the town to wake everyone up and officially inaugurate the carnival.
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In a poll we conducted with Morning Consult last week, 42 percent of Americans said they were, in some capacity, afraid of clowns.
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The apartment complex in Greenville, South Carolina, that functions as a kind of "ground zero" for this year's clown sightings included a mix of both stalker and phantom clowns, police have said: Both children and adults in the area reported seeing clowns – in some cases by the woods, and in others much nearer their apartments as they were walking home.
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There are explicit references to liberal comforts like HBO's Big Little Lies and conservative delusion drawn from Facebook, but there are also killer clowns.
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"We always try to keep up with the trends, and clowns are trending right now," Hurts Donut co-owner Kas Clegg told Guide Live.
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In between sketches by Mr. Irwin and Mr. Shiner, she performs original songs with a versatile band, a counterpoint to the clowns' silent bits.
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Children in Greenville, South Carolina, are allegedly being harassed by horrifying clowns with knives trying to coax them into the woods, WSPS 7 reports.
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It's hard to produce these updates, but one can't deny that these companies also look like absolute clowns when compared to Google or Apple.
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But according to Ozzy (who spent all evening watching graphically violent videos at the behest of his evil babysitter), they were murdered…by clowns.
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So instead of clowns and cowboys breaking the fourth wall and telling youngsters what to buy, advertisers began using cartoons werewolves to sell cheeseburgers.
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There will still be acrobats and, of course, clowns, but all will be performing in service of an over-arching story, something Ringling Bros.
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They've announced their intention to send out ten clowns to several areas across the country before Halloween, starting in Sydney on Saturday, Sept. 15.
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It was a tiny study and a tiny chance, but I latched on to this notion of humor as medicine and clowns as therapy.
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It reminds me a bit of the old rodeo clowns whose job it was to distract the bull while the cowboy rushed to safety.
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Ivan writes about how society has forgotten about clowns; Selin writes back about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; they describe their dreams in great detail.
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" The Seattle School District has been contacted by a number of individuals concerned about an ongoing national social media trend related to "Scary Clowns.
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In July, a teaser clip announcing the "cult" theme of the season featured a crew of killer clowns muttering disturbing mantras about group think.
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The Hollywood Reporter reviewed the first three episodes of Cult in advance of the premiere and mentioned it features a gang of killer clowns.
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When Ally complains of seeing clowns or encounters something that triggers her trypophobia, Ivy tells her she's imagining things, and even threatens their marriage.
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Joaquin Phoenix is gonna make you remember -- if you'd even forgot -- why clowns are so damn creepy ... by revealing the new big screen Joker.
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The Season 4 finale of BBC's Sherlock opened with an abandoned plane, the ghost of a child and clowns in an old Victorian mansion.
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Anyway, both Rosie and her husband are locked in caskets, with the clowns leaving nothing behind but their signature smiley face on the wall.
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It's no surprise that killer clowns are experiencing a resurgence in pop culture — let's just hope they don't start popping up in your neighborhood.
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Ally tells Dr. Rudy Vincent, a therapist played by Cheyenne Peters, that ever since the election her coulrophobia (fear of clowns) has gotten worse.
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Clowns, it seems, are the monster of the moment on social media, even though many of the creepy stories have been debunked by police.
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Searching for the clowns isn't putting a strain on the department, Franco said, but it is increasing patrols in various parts of the city.
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" The president over the weekend had tweeted that Strzok and others have "badly damaged" the FBI's reputation, referring to them as "clowns and losers!
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At the broader end of the spectrum is Short, one of the great, incorrigible clowns, whose elfin face belies a deeply eccentric comic sensibility.
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More importantly, running against the deeply unpopular clowns in Congress might help Trump, because it is a reminder of his anti-establishment bona fides.
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In the Industrial Nightmare, a surveillance camera records your every move, while menacing dentists and clowns roam the halls of the Silent Scream Asylum.
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In the promotional video launching their "Scary Clown Night" (above), a Burger King worker is being chased by clowns to claim their free whoppers.
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She says that peer pressure could be a factor in how some teens are handling the "panic," including making reports or masquerading as clowns.
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Both Stone and Morgan played second base, while Mamie "Peanut" Johnson, who also played for the Clowns between 1953 and 1955, was a pitcher.
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To celebrate the sphincter-strengthening event, Alamo Drafthouse will offer up "clowns-only" screenings at 17 of its locations across the United States. Yep.
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And then there are "phantom clowns," who are often reported or "seen" by children trying to lure or abduct them, often near wooded areas.
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A work titled "Les Clowns Musiciens, le Saxophoniste" (1991) sold last June for £1,022,500 at Christie's in London, a world record for the artist.
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Creepy clown sightings have spread across the United States, Australia and the UK. But what if clowns are normal, and we're the terrifying ones?
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While technology is used to recreate the animals used in the show, the circus has non-automated clowns, acrobats, magicians and other usual acts.
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Like bees and some leafy green vegetables, clowns are the kind of thing you're too damn old to be afraid of at this point.
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As a white American, Cunningham often wears a tuxedo and plays the part of the perpetually stumbling boss alongside more sure-footed female clowns.
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And in 20063 in Charlotte, N.C., clowns protesting a far-right march held up "Dwight Power!" signs, evoking the Charlotte Hornets player Dwight Howard.
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First in South Carolina, then across the country, residents reported sightings of menacing clowns, in the woods, on the streets and on social media.
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The study involved teams of two clowns working together, going from room to room to visit patients in Toronto's long-term care geriatric homes.
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A small group of masked women disguised as clowns ran up to the main entrance of the office and defaced it with red paint.
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Her list of collaborators includes the magician Teller (of Penn & Teller fame), the clowns David Shiner and Bill Irwin, the pop star Elton John.
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Though the elephants have already stepped down, clowns, acrobats and other animals remain and will be joined for the first time by ice skaters.
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"I am removing myself from the circus, because what I've realized is when you entertain clowns you become part of the circus," he said.
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"This airplane is designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys," one employee wrote in an instant message obtained by The Times.
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Exaggerated ruffles took their cue from Pierrot clowns, while the vivid color palette seemed to be straight out of Gauguin's paintings of Tahitian life.
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There are the hucksters and the tricksters, the bon vivants thriving on naive capital, the idiot clowns cloaked in their own compelling pitch decks.
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Bannon went on to dismiss the white nationalists who rallied in the college town as "clowns" who had been played up by the media.
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While Mr. King is best known for his horror novels featuring terrifying clowns and serial killers, his own particular fear is much more mundane.
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By the mid-20th century, the emergent tradition of down-and-out sad clowns had effectively repressed the clown's evil side, particularly in America.
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It's basically the opposite argument that all those hardworking clowns made when they feared that IT would wreck their birthday party business, but whatever.
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She told WTLV that her dog barked toward the clowns, but she quickly ran home and they managed to disappear before police showed up.
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The work, both individual and in total, explore pop culture through Surrealist and Romantic lenses, with clowns as the unsettling dark mirror of our times.
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She was anxious and easily triggered by her fear of clowns, holes, and germs, but this was never a danger to the people around her.
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That's because the show is really a three-legged stool, the two clowns and a musician, and this time around that musician is Shaina Taub.
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In fact, counter-protesters have successfully sapped power from Neo-Nazis in the United States and Europe by arriving to their marches dressed as clowns.
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None of them have any redeeming qualities as they are shown whipping the elephants and making Dumbo participate in an embarrassing circus routine with clowns.
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He referred to that same nationalist contingent he helped whip into a bigoted frenzy as " a collection of clowns" in an interview earlier this week.
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I think what is interesting about clowns is that behind a mask no one knows who you really are, so evil can more easily hide.
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And with the release of his latest album, Sad Clowns & Hillbillies, the 65-year-old singer-songwriter has only grown more absolute in his convictions.
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PT Barnum, one of the show's founders, is said to have remarked that "clowns and elephants are the pegs upon which a circus is hung".
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But it's large enough to host prancing stallions, capering dogs, a couple of clowns, a score of swirling hula hoops and throngs of leaping acrobats.
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That being said, if you can't beat whoever is pushing clowns on us, join them — and maybe go see It in theaters beginning September 8.
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Professional clowns are increasingly worried that their industry could suffer a fatal blow from the recent 'creepy clown' craze that has spread around the world.
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The first sighting occurred in August in South Carolina, when a group of children claimed that clowns had tried to lure them into the woods.
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It takes most clowns over an hour to get ready to dress to perform -- and the makeup, costumes and especially the shoes are very expensive.
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Well, thanks to some super sleuthing, one fan theory suggests that the world of scary clowns extends from Stephen King's It to Netflix's Stranger Things.
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They both played infamously evil clowns, but It's Bill Skarsgard sees some major differences between his Pennywise and Heath Ledger's Joker from The Dark Knight.
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The prevalence of coulrophobia isn't known but a 2014 Rasmussen Reports survey of 1,000 American adults indicated that 43% of respondents don't like circus clowns.
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"People getting dressed up as 'creepy clowns' and frightening children should take a long hard look at themselves," Jon Cameron, NSPCC head of helplines, said.
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Sheriff James Woodruff told the LaGrange Daily News that the two alleged the clowns were trying to get children to come inside the white van.
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It's common knowledge that clowns, scarecrows, and ventriloquist dummies are all creepy, but did you know that small children can be just as terror-inducing?
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People were making clown prank videos—some good, the vast majority bad—and clowns were photographed with chains and knives looking menacing as all hell.
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"We always try to keep up with the trends, and clowns are trending right now," says Hurts Donut co-owner Kas Clegg told local media.
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Andrés Muschietti is getting a ration of s*** from clowns who are losing bank because "It" is scaring the s*** out of the kid population.
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Stone was the first woman ever to sign to a professional men's baseball league; she joined the all-male, all-black Indianapolis Clowns in 1953.
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These fiendish clowns reportedly tried to lure women and children into the woods, chased people with knives and machetes, and yelled at people from cars.
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That kind of juggling suits a guy who spent his years keeping balls in the air to get circus clowns to their shows on time.
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YMMV. It's the second time the theater chain has pulled the frightening stunt, offering up two sold-out, clowns-only showings for It in 2017.
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A study from 2014 looking at comedians and circus clowns found that comics tend to make more negative remarks about themselves compared with other performers.
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The reports to the police had one thing in common with the circus act involving an improbable number of clowns emerging from a small car.
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Cooking beans is like going to see clowns and sword swallowers at a circus, only to find them all sitting inside the tent, playing canasta.
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You can explore scary fun houses rife with zombies and killer clowns, see live Halloween shows, and ride roller coasters decked out in horrific decor.
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It's not the evil clowns, the ghosts, or monsters that make King's books so scary, but their firm link to the society we live in.
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It also features the usual assortment of dazzling acrobats and aerialists, along with some inventive new diversions, but fear not: no scary clowns (2:15).
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It also features the usual assortment of dazzling acrobats and aerialists, along with some inventive new diversions, but fear not: no scary clowns (7183:15).
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It also features the usual assortment of dazzling acrobats and aerialists, along with some inventive new diversions, but fear not: no scary clowns (259:259).
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It also features the usual assortment of dazzling acrobats and aerialists, along with some inventive new diversions, but fear not: no scary clowns (21:240).
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Clowns have a centuries-long history of delighting Britons, but "coulrophobia," a fear of the jesters, can also cause panic, difficulty in breathing and sweating.
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The trend has been terrifying for those who've been victimized by the creepy clowns, and highly entertaining for the rest of us on the internet.
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I've been doing this for 24 years, and I absolutely love it, but it just comes back to this mayhem and chaos with these clowns.
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Plus, it can't hurt to 8-Mile it a little to give off that I Did Not Come Here to Play With You Clowns vibe.
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We drove around, spotting a few stumbling, particularly well-dressed drunks (it's Milan, after all) and a few clowns burning their reds at the stoplight.
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At one point, she was a proud member of a group called "Clowns for Christ" an organization that is exactly what you think it is.
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"There's a certain risk of feeling too vulnerable, as clowns are often unpredictable," says Friedemann Schaub, a clinician and author of The Fear & Anxiety Solution.
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Clowns are a terrifying breed, known to get drunk and brandish machetes, attack innocent bystanders with Freddy Krueger gloves, or even commit cold-blooded murder.
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It also features the usual assortment of dazzling acrobats and aerialists, along with some inventive new diversions, but fear not: no scary clowns (276:2982).
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It also features the usual assortment of dazzling acrobats and aerialists, along with some inventive new diversions, but fear not: no scary clowns (224111:24111).
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It also features the usual assortment of dazzling acrobats and aerialists, along with some inventive new diversions, but fear not: no scary clowns (2:2811).
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A day later, a couple of kids told police in Macon that they had been chased from their bus stop by a few terrifying clowns.
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Mr. Blanks, marvelous here in a romance even more unusual than Stone's with baseball, plays one of the Clowns when he's not the suave Alberga.
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A troupe of commedia dell'arte clowns, headed by the Leading Player (originally Ben Vereen), the charming and manipulative M.C., are the guides to Pippin's adventures.
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So whether you can't remember the word for the urge to travel or the fear of clowns, the OneLook Reverse Dictionary can help you out.
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Like the clowns he shared the town square with, a good charlatan could often juggle, simultaneously keeping up pretensions to scientific rigor and mystical profundity.
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In the 2019 Chilean protests, the phrase "we are all clowns" (a key line in the movie) was written on the base of a statue.
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Yes, he seems to have surrounded himself with a cadre of amoral clowns, but Trump has also created the conditions for others to abase themselves.
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The Style section recently pointed out that, right now, clowns are everywhere — on social media, in the movies, on television, and even on fashion runways.
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" Quotable: In an exchange from 2017 about the Max, an employee wrote, "This airplane is designed by clowns, who are in turn supervised by monkeys.
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He has cannily positioned himself as the adult in the room, only to provide cover while the bullies and the class clowns run around unobstructed.
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Trump's chief strategist also attacked the mindset that motivates white supremacists, describing the group as "clowns" amid the ongoing fallout from violent protests in Charlottesville.
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The nature of creepiness Psychology can help explain why clowns -- the supposed purveyors of jokes and pranks -- often end up sending chills down our spines.
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There are some killer clowns roaming this comfy suburb but not all the carnage and violence committed this season comes by way of supernatural forces.
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Another in Canada suggested clowns could help seniors with dementia with their mood and communication skills, as well as giving them a sense of autonomy.
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I can see her twirling into the future now, flaunting her revenge body made of lava and poisonous tides, completely inhospitable to us poor clowns.
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"Would ever consider a special screening for IT that's only for those who identify as clowns?" the man asked, thinking he had proved a point.
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As natural-born class clowns, Migos's Quavo, Offset, and Takeoff adhere to this convention while also rapping more quickly, clearly, and amusingly than the norm.
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Under no circumstances will I be locked in a dark room full of clowns watching a movie based on one of the scariest clown stories ever.
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They get out of the car to investigate and are suddenly jumped by gang members or creepy clowns or (insert your bad guy of choice here).
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"The clowns used to babysit us," said Feld, who told me that she spent most winter breaks with the circus performers as they rehearsed each December.
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The new promo is a compilation of many other short videos we saw over the last month or so that feature only the creepiest of clowns.
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Even Steven King, author of It, the most famous fictional example of a horrifying clown, tweeted to try to end the fear-mongering about the clowns.
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But as has been the trend with Ally's encounters with clowns, there is no evidence of one having been upstairs when the couple goes to look.
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A door closes on its own and outside the window, the same ice cream truck that brought the killer clowns to the Changs is has appeared.
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"Coulrophobia" and "trypophobia" refer to very specific trigger points: clowns and (as you may have seen in AHS: Cult's promotional material) clusters of tiny holes, respectively.
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An expert previously told PEOPLE that the clown panics trace back decades, to the '80s and reports of "phantom clowns" trying to lure or abduct children.
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Don't let the Schumer clowns out of this web... massive increases of ObamaCare will take place this year and Dems are to blame for the mess.
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She's surprised Sean "Diddy" Combs and Sarah Paulson with clowns, Leah Michele with a Michael Meyers look-alike and Selena Gomez with a Taylor Swift impersonator.
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" Khloé also joked about her sister calling them clowns by sharing a group shot from their trip on her Instagram Story and wrote, "Klowns In Japan.
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A couple of years ago in Bakersfield, California, police got around 20 calls on clowns, including one about someone in a clown suit brandishing a weapon.
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YouTuber Jordan Ogle discovered a brand new way to protect his garbage from his local hungry bear, proving that even wildlife thinks that clowns are creepy.
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Many contortionists, acrobats, and clowns come from families that have worked in the three rings for generations; all have honed skills only useful to the circus.
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Case in point: Right now, fans everywhere are desperately trying to figure out the meaning behind the bees, the creepy clowns, and Evan Peters' blue hair.
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A group of clowns with white face paint and red noses squeaked noisily in the rising and falling tones of Gaza's Arabic dialect and hopped around.
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Clowns are fun and cool, especially seeing as this clown has not sparked any traumatic memories of accidentally watching It at far too young an age.
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These fiendish clowns have reportedly tried to lure women and children into the woods, chased people with knives and machetes, and yelled at people from cars.
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Don't let the Schumer clowns out of this web massive increases of ObamaCare will take place this year and Dems are to blame for the mess.
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The nature of creepiness Psychology, however, can help explain why clowns -- the supposed purveyors of jokes and pranks -- often end up sending chills down our spines.
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One woman filed a report with the sheriff because her son saw "clowns in the woods whispering and making strange noises," according to the incident report.
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Class clowns are always likable, but Fred and George prove they have the smarts to lead the resistance while making some extra Galleons on the side.
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It's doubtful that the left will ever be entertained by anything as fatuous and openly cynical as Fox News or the right's other, presiding media clowns.
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Variations of clowns have been around for hundreds of years in cultures across the globe — depictions date all the way back to 2500 BCE in Egypt.
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Finally, good news: Many of the reports of creepy, menacing clowns received in six states — Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina and Pennsylvania — were pranks.
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The department said in a separate Facebook post that it had received calls about clowns in a van trying to talk to children in wooded areas.
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The show, which blends the spectacle of drag with the sadness of clowns, explores Dickie Beau's fascination with female icons like Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland.
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In other news surrounding clowns, director Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix walked away from this year's Venice Film Festival with the Golden Lion award for Joker.
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Because the reason for the attraction is simple: Fashion and clowns share a common DNA, which has to do with exaggeration and unexpected juxtapositions and decontextualization.
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The CAPEX will tell us if they have real clouds or are just clowns… This story originally appeared on Platformonomics, and is republished here by permission.
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The tune focuses on police brutality and depicts a world full of clowns, with Snoop Dogg ultimately spoof-firing upon one who looks like President Trump.
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Clowns have always had a bit of a dark side, as Smithsonian magazine points out, usually in the context of mischief, but they were rarely malicious.
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A cursory glance over the comments on the new IT trailer attest to this: You're not afraid of clowns, you're just afraid of being by yourself.
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At the performance attended by VICE News, the cats' main job was initially to accent the clowns' stunts, but the animals' antics gradually grew in scope.
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Now, business has gotten so bad for these regular clowns in the area that some have been forced to hang up their red noses for good.
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That's a potent role — and it means that the phantom clowns haunting the parking lots and apartment complexes of America aren't going away anytime soon. Opinion
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But Mr. Irwin has always been expert in reminding us that the abiding appeal of silent clowns like Chaplin and Keaton is rooted in existential exasperation.
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" It's a honky-tonk bounce that's more jovial than angry, observing, "If it's a bunch of clowns you voted in/Election Day is comin' round again.
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With a sweetly cherubic face, a deceptively athletic physicality and an utter devotion to foolishness and slapstick, Mr. Conway was among Hollywood's most enduringly popular clowns.
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Oscar says he's realistic about the chances of making the rematch happen -- and even clowns Floyd taking easy fights against tomato can opponents like Tenshin Nasukawa.
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"I've been in that particular dressing room in Sydney on many occasions with many wonderfully talented actors and many wonderfully talented clowns," Ms. Stone told me.
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"I like the audiences when they're fully reacting," Ms. Kraft, who was on her second tour and specializes in clowns and queens, said the day before.
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Like a fear of masks, terror of clowns stems from the obscuring of the face, according to Corrie Ackland, clinical director at the Sydney Phobia Clinic.
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Before there was a script — or a commitment to fully produce the show — Ms. Landau held workshops, pairing traditional actors with clowns, acrobats, dancers and magicians.
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Must I also mention "Faust 3: The Turd Coming, or The Fart of the Deal," a satire of Mr. Trump performed by a company of clowns?
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In the Op-Doc above, "Music and Clowns," I team up with my parents to discuss what it is like caring for someone with Down syndrome.
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" Ms. Williams visited a few days later, shortly before Mr. Lewis arrived, and repeatedly sang "Send in the Clowns" from 1973's "A Little Night Music.
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Cramer called the traders who bought Apple in the days leading up to the launch "clowns" because they wrongly assumed one of three things would happen.
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For example, there's the phenomenon called the Uncanny Valley, where people are weirded out by things that resemble humans but aren't human (see: mascots, clowns, mannequins).
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And on Friday, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, excoriated American leaders as "clowns" when he led Friday prayers for the first time in eight years.
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Khamenei responded Friday, mocking "these American clowns who falsely and despicably say that they are standing with the Iranian people," referring to Trump and his administration.
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She said she had acquired her nickname while playing for the Clowns when an opposing player derided her as looking like a peanut on the mound.
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