For the first time, the men who wedge themselves between rampaging bulls and their fallen riders at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo have traded in clown costumes for simple red jerseys and ...

“I was thinking, alright, I’m gonna try this rodeo clown thing for about ... Whenever I put the costume on and whenever I put the makeup on, then I kinda come out of my shell.

He has to get his makeup ... clown pants, he straps a knee brace onto his leg. He says he knew he had to do something different, something safer, if he wanted to keep going on the rodeo circuit.

But despite the makeup and the silly costume, being a rodeo clown is no funny business. "I'm the barrel man. I'm an island in a sea of sharks," said Coffee. "I've got to be out-of-the-way and ...

For more than 40 years, the bullfighting clown been painting his face and getting big laughs at rodeos across the country. But despite the makeup and the silly costume, being a rodeo clown is no ...

“My dad,” she says, “used to laugh and say he sent me to a Catholic high school and Cal Poly, and I married a rodeo clown. But, obviously, I was head over heels before the (clown makeup).

It's 7:30 on a Saturday night inside Madison Square Garden, and I'm finding it difficult to gauge the mood of the world's best rodeo clowns ... traded in their clown costumes long ago.

America’s public enemy No. 1 this week: a rodeo clown in a Barack Obama costume. Giddy up, news cycle. Officials from the Missouri State Fair—a large stuffed dog, two twin dwarves, a mime ...

Meet the Arkansas cowboy who found a new life as a rodeo clown It's an hour before showtime and Rob Gann is running late. He has to get his makeup on, climb into his costume, and build a flash ...