Maybe Robin Williams was fascinated by the sad clown because he knew him from the mirror. He may not have ridden his bike around Tiburon, Calif,, in a “Sad Clown” T-shirt, but the phrase resonated ...

I kept drifting back to the black velvet painting I'd been mesmerized by when I was a kid. My folks subjected us to a lot of super-cheap, tacky motels in the '70s; black velvet Elvis paintings were ...

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When someone famous dies, the rest of the world scrambles to make the death feel meaningful by building a narrative around it. And when Robin Williams died, our narrative of choice was the Sad Clown ...

In the wake of Robin Williams' death, we spoke to freelance writer Leigh Cowart about her recent experience at a clown convention. After the interview she shared her perspective on Robin Williams, a ...

When reports first started to surface in 2014 that Robin Williams took his own life, the narrative quickly become that of the sad clown: a brilliant comedian tortured to a tragic end by his own demons ...

Unfortunately you've used all of your gifts this month. Your counter will reset on the first day of next month. Within hours of his reported suicide, we were reminded that almost everyone loved Robin ...