Dave DeDera was only 19 when he was faced with the kind of decision that could make or break his career: clown around or become a cop? DeDera chose clowning. It was the best decision of his life. For ...

A little boy sees Dave DeDera and dives behind his mother's legs. "I'm afraid," he says. Standing 6 feet 5 inches tall, DeDera cuts an imposing figure. But the red, bulbous nose and giant clown shoes ...

They need to stop clowning around and get a job. When the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its doors this month after a 146-year run, a group of costumed entertainers will be out of ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCIV) — The saying is "the show must go on," but in the case of 146-year-old Ringling Brothers Circus, it's time to call it quits. The traveling circus' last performance will be ...

LONGVIEW, TX (KLTV) - If you Google "creepy clown" you will get at least 25 pages of posts of sightings, scares, burglaries, and robberies. In fact, there was an armed robbery at a Longview business ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Kids at Memorial City Mall got to meet some circus legends recently. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey clowns who've entertained crowds for decades are part of a special Clown Alley ...

Felix Adler, king of the clowns at the greatest show on earth, is Peter Pan come to life again. He is the little boy who will never grow up. The grotesque and glittering world of Ringling Brothers and ...

These performers must have been right at home in Coney Island! Acrobats and jugglers with Mike Naughton’s Yankee Doodle Circus dazzled families at PS 100 in Coney Island for a thrilling school ...

I grew up in a city that featured the Peru Amateur Circus. I played trumpet in the circus band, my younger sister was an aerialist. I knew the first human cannonball, W.W. Wilno, and went to school ...

A popular Irish circus is currently experiencing a clown shortage as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the BBC reported Wednesday. The circus has been closed for more than 500 days amid strict ...

Having been something of a class clown growing up in Dayton, Ohio, terrorizing many an innocent grade school teacher at Cleveland Elementary School with my pranks and wise-acre behavior, I suppose ...