But despite his afro wig, dungarees and burnt cork-face, Jon Hamm managed to pull in ... NBC had the first two black characters on TV,' he told the assembled writers as he tried to convince ...

All of that and more happened to me when I was a clown for a day with the UniverSoul Circus ... One was a big blond afro wig and the other was a shoulder-length black wig with bangs.

A beloved clown who kept a generation of New Yorkers laughing made an emotional farewell appearance Sunday at the Big Apple Circus ... a red dress and black sneakers — and a longtime fan ...

She guessed that she attended her first circus at two weeks old; as a child, she and her two sisters were judges at Clown College graduation ... Bozo or face paint-plus-red-nose variety.