Calling All Sad Clowns. Sign In Sign Up. Slate. Weigel. Reporting on Politics and Policy. Aug. 12 2014 5:22 PM. ... Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company.

People have long joked about being scared by clowns. But the recent rash of "scary clown" sightings isn't funny. (It's also not new; according to Slate, such sightings have been happening off and ...

“And then the next day, there was like 30 kids that came up to me and said, ‘Ms. Donna, Ms. Donna, there’s clowns in the woods.’ My child was with me, so I knew they had to see something.

The Sad Clown myth is false and destructive. It promotes a worldview that understands humor as a form of escape from a bleak reality that will inevitably triumph in the end.

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — This has been a terribly sad time for clowns, those purveyors of happiness whose recorded history dates back to ancient Greece. Last year was possibly the pits. Clowns ...

Puddles: Sad clown, big voice. Puddles, the almost-7-foot melancholy clown, pulled more than 10 million YouTube hits for his cover of Lorde’s “Royals.” ...