Be a clown, be a clown
All the world loves a clown
Show ‘em tricks, tell ‘em jokes
And you’ll only stop with top folks.

Still I'll be always laughing like a clown

Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy of being Salvador Dalí — and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?

The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

for the clown himself imitated the serious characters

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician

I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill.
Jem and I stopped in our tracks.
Yes sir, a clown,' he said. 'There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.'
You got it backwards, Dill,' said Jem. 'Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them.'
Well I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

...the most sublime of oddballs, Leonardo da Vinci

What a great time to be alive if you love the theater of the absurd!

It always seemed to me that if you could get a laugh out of something, that was good, and if you could make life more colorful than it actually was, that was good. So, any artist of individual who worked in those two directions was doing something good.

He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

A cheerful genius suits the times, / And all true poets laugh unquenchably / Like Shakespeare and the gods.

Perhaps you laugh too, dear reader; but you know humanity comes out in a variety of strange forms now-a-days, and there is no end to the odd things that humane people will say and do.