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Clown

A clown is a person who performs physical comedy and arts in an open-ended fashion, typically while wearing distinct makeup or costuming and reversing folkway-norms. The art of performing as a clown is known as clowning or buffoonery, and the term "clown" may be used synonymously with predecessors like jester, joker, buffoon, fool, or harlequin.

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Ancestor arts
Jester
Descendant arts
Harlequinade, comedian
Medium
Physical comedy, acting, mime
Types
circus, contemporary circus, comedy, theatre, television, film

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Clown

Nodes144
Edges143
Triples202
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.013889
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related to Gallery · 40
Clown → Adriaan, Arm, Auguste, Bassie, BhutanClown, Bob, Bob Bell, Bob Trendler, Bozo, Bozo's Circus, Carnival, Don Sandburg, Englishman Harry Payne, Gösta Ekman, Hammer Brand Soda, Han, Harlequin, He Who Gets Slapped, Jesus Medrano, José
related to Modern circuses · 27
Clown → American, Astley, Auguste, Belling, Belling's, Belling's Auguste, Circus Renz, Clowns, Danish/Norwegian, Dummer August, Fox, French, George, German Clown, Greek, Grimaldi, Nicolai Poliakoff's Coco, Pagliacci, Philip Astley's London, Romanian
related to 20th-century North America · 20
Clown → Another, Auguste, Bozo, Charlie Chaplin's The Tramp, Depression, Emmett Kelly's Weary Willie, Examples, Hippodrome Theater, In, Marceline Orbes, McDonald's, North American, Otto Griebling, Red Skelton's Dodo, Ronald McDonald, The Bozo Show, The Clown, The McDonald's, United States, Willard Scott
related to Pierrot and Harlequin · 14
Clown → As, Auguste, Commedia, English Harlequinade, Harlequin, Harlequin's, In, Joseph Grimaldi, Originally, Payne Brothers, Pierrot, The, Victorian England, White Clown
related to Origin · 13
Clown → Classical Greek, Elizabethan, Greek, In Roman, It, Roman, Rustic, Scandinavian, Shakespeare's, Shakespeare's Othello, The, The English, The Winter's Tale
related to Character · 12
Clown → Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Emmett Kelly, Harold Lloyd, Otto Griebling, Philippe Gaulier, Prime, Red Skelton, Rowan Atkinson, Sacha Baron Cohen, The, Their
related to history · 10
Clown → BC, Egypt, Fifth Dynasty, For, In, It, Peter Berger, The, Unlike, Western
related to External links · 8
Clown → Archived, Art, Clowns, ClownsCollection, Michigan Museum, Quotes, University, Wayback Machine
related to In horror · 7
Clown → DC Comics, In, It, Joker, Pennywise, Stephen King's, The
related to White and Auguste · 7
Clown → Appropriate, Auguste, Bold, Features, French, The, The Auguste

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character clowns auguste circus whiteface white also comedy developed clowning red makeup role modern harlequin may roles jester types bozo

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
ClownAncestor artsJester1.00infobox
ClownDescendant artsHarlequinade, comedian1.00infobox
ClownMediumPhysical comedy, acting, mime1.00infobox
ClownTypescircus, contemporary circus, comedy, theatre, television, film1.00infobox
Clownis aperson who performs physical comedy and arts in an open-ended fashion0.90text
Clownis apart of0.90text
Shakespeare's.The harlequinade developed in England in the 17th centuryinstance ofbased on Elizabethan rustic fool characters0.80text
inspired by Arlecchinoinstance ofbased on Elizabethan rustic fool characters0.80text
the commedia dell'arteinstance ofbased on Elizabethan rustic fool characters0.80text
the tramp or hoboinstance ofNorth American circuses developed characters0.80text
eyebrows emphasized in blackinstance ofusually with facial features0.80text
Clownrelated to 20th-century North AmericaIn0.60section

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