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]
(..) billion dollars later you get this! There's a lot of smuck-looking people in here huh!? It looks like someone just hit a pi'ata that was filled with white people who suck at golf I mean, who are all these clown? -Ah come on, I think it looks fun! Charlie, Vennett says these are the people (..)2015 The Big Short