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a performer, usually in a circus, who plays the fool, performs practical jokes, and does tricks to make people laugh. Other names for s are buffoon, jester, fool, conjurer, mirthmaker, tumbler, gleeman, mime, actor, harlequin, ....

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.... the most famous Harlequin of his time. After the mid-18th century, the gradually replaced the Harlequin character. English entertainer Joseph Grimaldi played an instrumental role in this shift. Still today you can find s which will do the whitefaced act but you would have to look along way to find anything also the whitefaced does not use the grease paint the use a type of make-up which is thick and very rich in color and you can find it all over the place. CharacterI In the early 20th century a third category of characterization developed from the so-called carpet , who performed short, solo routines between circus acts. Th ....