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]
(..) he's not suppose to have. Where the hell you get a gun like that, Jerry I can get you two whole crates full, man. Two crates? No disrespect Jay, but how a clown like you get so much product, man? What's it matter where it comes from? It matters, we don't want no dirty guns Jerry. (..)2014 RoboCop