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.

So, there’s my makeup, I put initials on my face ... have if somebody wanted to learn how to do it. What about the rodeo clown costume? Have you ever wanted to change it to maybe a Spanish ...

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 ...

“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).

Eric Stonestreet couldn't help but see a little bit of himself in the rodeo-clown background dancers during Chappell Roan's ...