This is the clown skull.

The clown made a funny face.

I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years.

This is actually a training film for a clown college that they had.

Neither the clown nor the tycoon is well suited to being a democratic leader. The question is which is worse.

They also practiced a clown act when the future of furniture was not nearly as auspicious as it turned out to be.

He said cast ye. Then when they cast clown, they enchanted the eyes of the people, and terrified them and brought mighty magic to bear.

He said cast ye. Then when they cast clown, they enchanted the eyes of the people, and terrified them and brought mighty magic to bear.

But electing a clown is not the answer either. Obama happily combines showmanship and seriousness in a way that could inject new life into the democratic system.

A few years ago, a clown named Brozo, with a large red nose and a bright green wig, was Mexico s most popular political commentator on television, actively courted by all candidates running for national office. In 1980, the French clown Coluche actually dropped out of the presidential race when one newspaper put his popular support at 16 , causing him to fear that he might influence the result too much.

If Tudor were a mere political clown, the question of whether or not he still hates Jews would not matter. But Tudor is a political power to be reckoned with.

Two types of contemporary populist, however, stand out the ultra rich business tycoon and the clown. In the Anglo Saxon media world, Rupert Murdoch, owner of far too many newspapers, TV stations, and movie studios, is a typical populist tycoon.

Its incomparable vitality and language, for example, find their way into the work of the Soviet writer Andrei Platonov. A communist who considered himself an honest proletarian writer, but called by Stalin, the Red Clown of Power, svoloc (scoundrel) and balagancik (buffoon), Platonov lived a lifelong ordeal.

Until a few years ago, the one TV program most Mexicans turned to for political information was called The Morning Quickie, broadcast from 6 10 a.m. The host, interviewer, and main commentator was Victor Trujillo, better known as Brozo the Clown, adorned with a green wig and a red rubber nose.

It is no surprise, then, that for the last 400 years Don Quixote and Panza have bred many relatives and successors, including countless buffoonish boss and servant couples. Even the history of the circus is focused on such a pairing the vain, dignified White Clown and Augustus the Fool, the humble loser who is kicked in the pants by his stiff, pompous partner.