This article originally ran in 2016 and reposted in anticipation of Puddles' show at The Back Room @Colectivo on Dec. 8, 2019. Puddles the Clown, has been singing since the day he was born. At least ...

Deemed 'the sad clown with the golden voice,' Puddles Pity Party is a 6-foot 8-inch melancholy baby on the outside, but joyous on the inside. He doesn't speak. Music gives him voice, but he agreed to ...

Erick Murias leaned forward, gesturing with his hands as he tried to explain to a bunch of clowns that their job was serious business. It’s a trade that has an “ideological and technical basis,” he ...

The great Bobby McFerrin once advised, “Don’t worry, be happy.” For a clown, that’s usually pretty easy to do, but in March of 2020, we watched the happiness get squeezed from this world like a ...

As a young adult, Jackman was a clown for hire for kids’ birthday parties. He went by the name of Coco the Clown, but unlike most clowns, he didn’t know any magic tricks. “I am really bad at magic,” ...