“You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who make people happy, but inside he's real sad. Also, he has severe diarrhea.”
Jack Handy
“People don't buy from clowns.”
Claude C. Hopkins
“I’ve often wondered, since I was the moron that Billy Hicks and George Carlin were talking about, why I laughed?”
Bobby W. Miller
“The main character is a clown who is dreaming of his funeral. He's wondering who is going to say goodbye to him, and [the show] begins with a procession of people paying tribute to him, but he's not really dead.”
Alison Crawford
“A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast”
Groucho Marx
“I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.”
Charlie Chaplin
“Laugh, clown, laugh. This is what I tell myself whenever I dress up like Bozo.”