Clowns - I'm Not a Clown Positive

i'm not afraid of clowns as a rule but there's something deeply deeply creepy about clowns and i'm a little suspect about people who want to dress up as clowns. I had a boss once who was uh really truly terrified of clowns like you could send him an innocent benign clown photo in an email and he would just stare at it for hours. Clowns always kind of smell bad and like sweat and mothballs  they're creepy so the clowns in this circus though they also had like all the carny jobs of building the animals. It didn't we read that david arquette is uh is he a secret clowner? He bought bozo the clown