Clown doctors perform for children affected by the April 2015 earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal. A team of five medical clowns from Israel visited the victims to try to ease their trauma with their clowning skills Image by Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters
New York clown duo Acrobuffos—Christina Gelsone and Seth Bloom—perform on the CopaCabana Beach in Southbank, London, in August this year Image by Ian Gavan / getty Images
Clowns celebrate the ‘Day of the Peruvian Clown’ in the streets of Lima, Peru, in May 2016Image by Ernesto Benavides/ AFP / Getty Images
Ecuadorian politician Lenin Voltaire Moreno plays with a clown nose as he addresses students after he was awarded the ‘Doctor Honoris Causa’, a honorary degree, from The University of El Salvador in October 2016 Image by Jose Cabezas / Reuters
Clowns from various countries celebrate the 8th International Festival of Laughter in San Salvador, El Salvador, in May 2016. Clowns from across the Latin American continent met to exchange their knowledge and skills at the event Image by Marlon Gomez / LatinContent / Getty Images
Chandra Bahadur Dangi, the shortest human adult in recorded history, is carried by a clown after an event at the Rambo Circus in Mumbai on March last year. Dangi—who was from Nepal and died on September 3, 2015 at the age of 75—stopped over in India on his way to the South Pacific island of Samoa to make a guest appearance in the circus Image by Danish Siddiqui / Reuters
