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]
(..) - Badge! Uh, no. - What did you say, fox? - Sorry, what I said was 'no'. She will not be giving you that badge. Look, you gave her a clown vest, and a three-wheeled joke-mobile, and two days to solve a case... you guys haven't cracked in two weeks? Yeah, it's no wonder she needed (..)2016 Zootopia