Coulrophobia: [Don't] Send In The Clowns (warning: includes clown painting)

By Jack Brummet, Pop Culture Editor

On their radio show yesterday, Dave Ross & Luke Burbank  discussed clowns going extinct.  From my generation forward, people now perceive of clowns as being frightening rather than amusing or distracting.  This may have something to do with both John Wayne Gacy and Stephen King's novel, and movie, "It."  There have been more than a few scary clowns in movies over the last few years (like The Joker and his band in The Dark Knight, for example).  Our parents loved Emmett Kelly and Red Skelton, and clown cars at the circus, but somewhere along the line our generation and the following ones no longer much cotton to the clowns.


This is a painting I bought at a thrift store fifteen years ago.  It may be Emmett Kelly. . .

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