Although clowns are originally comic performers and characterized to humor and entertain people, the image of the evil clown is a development in popular culture, in which the playful trope of the clown is rendered as disturbing through the use of horror elements and dark humor.
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On this foul world in its decline and fall,
On gangling stocks grown great, great stocks run dry,
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