stackyFACTSBefore they were brightly colored fools making balloon animals at birthday parties, traditional clowns were heavily chaotic, fiercely satirical rebels who aggressively mocked authority figures, wildly disrupted formal events, and terrified the upper class with dark, physically aggressive pantomime.
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