Circus clowns were told yesterday to take out custard-pie insurance against the risk of being sued by spectators who fail to see the joke. "With an increasingly litigation-crazy public . . . the ...

As the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus hits the road for the first time in seven years, gone are the tigers, elephants and Pennywise-esque clowns. By Jonathan Abrams Jonathan Abrams saw the ...

LOCKPORT — Mike Perry fell in love with clowning as a youngster in Amherst and ran off to join the circus when he was of age. On Sunday, Perry will tell his personal story of clowning and the journey ...

Mike Perry just wanted to have fun when he was growing up in Buffalo. He found a unicycle and taught himself to ride it at the age of 12. Later, a friend taught him how to juggle, and he thought that ...