Stott is the author of several articles on scary clowns and comedy, as well as The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, a much-lauded 2009 biography of the famous comic pantomime player on the Regency ...

The lobby of Renaissance Dallas North Hotel is stately, with purple orchids and velvet couches, but down a long hallway, I can spot the clowns. More than 100 have gathered in Dallas, March 3-7, for ...

“If we don’t educate, we’re a dying breed,” says a panelist at a Dallas convention for the World Clown Association, which skews toward an older generation. More than 100 clowns gathered at Renaissance ...