His classmates remember him as 'the class clown'. [=a student who tried to make other students laugh]
a rodeo 'clown' [=a person in a rodeo who dresses like a circus clown]
He was always 'playing the clown'. [=trying to make people laugh]
(..) I'm trying to say that something is coming. Thanos! Whoa, whoa, whoa! Please don't put your eggs in me! Stay down, clown. Die, blanket of death! Everybody stay where you are. Chill the eff out. I'm gonna ask you this one time. (..)2018 Avengers: Infinity War