WHO are the people behind the faces of the clowns? We visit Stardust Circus, an Australian institution ... performances are designed to make people happy — but there is a shade of sadness ...

🎪 Step right up and meet the colorful world of **Circus Clown Makeup**! Dive into our nostalgic journey as I recreate a face I haven’t seen in **twenty years**—my circus persona!

Their only goal is to make people happy. And yet, like the old Emmett Kelly gag, the practitioners have tried but failed to sweep up the spotlight, pooling on the ground. Clowns, like the circus ...

It’s a happy human face, not a grotesquely painted ... and Barnum & Bailey has to a traditional clown act. (Geo Rittenmyer) What really sells this circus is the larger than life stuff, like ...

and Barnum & Bailey Circus hits the road ... Which brings us to the clowns. They are still there, but don’t expect any of the Pennywise, Bozo or face paint-plus-red-nose variety.

WHO are the people behind the faces of the clowns? We visit Stardust Circus, an Australian institution ... performances are designed to make people happy — but there is a shade of sadness ...