Yes, hilarious!! But then, I grew up in the 1950’s/60’s, watched International Showtime every week, and loved Emmett Kelly’s Weary Willie character.
They were funny when I saw them at Ringling Brothers in the 60s. Kids loved them. But they were ruined by amateurs who were loud and boisterous, scaring kids (some Santas have the same effect). Add that to people’s strange penchant for Wanting to be afraid (which led to the evil clown trope), and people don’t like them.
I have known people who claimed they were scared of clowns as a child, but I have been to many, many events with small children and clowns present and have seen exactly one child one time express fear in the presence of a clown. And in that case the clown came bursting loudly into the back of the room during a low-key program and the child was reacting to the sudden noise.
This is more my impression of the mug’s phiz. The dude looks more like a mob boss to me.
I never found clowns scary, and I never found them especially funny. EinsteinsHund, you are not alone.
Nope, works perfectly: “Die Clowns schmecken komisch”. 
Clowns could be amusing.
If they gave everybody in the audience air rifles.
What is THAT supposed to mean?
The late Sir Terry Pratchett said it best:
The proper way for me to appraise that quote is to know exactly what Sir Terry Pratchett thought was funny. It could just be a case of cultural snobbery.
{evil smile}
Feel free to read what Pratchett wrote about the Fool’s Guild.
He also spelled out the hierarchy of Clowning in the Fool’s Guild:
The Degrees of Clowning
- Muggins.
- Gull.
- Dupe.
- Butt.
The first four levels are those which a student Fool is expected to attain during basic training at the Guild. This usually takes about five years, after which the student passes out with the grade of
5. Fool.
This is only a starting point, however, as like masonic ritual, higher grades of fatuity beckon:-
- Tomfool.
- Stupid Fool.
- Arch Fool.
- Complete Fool.
{If sustained, suggests future trip to orthodontist}
Perfectly normal for some kids to not like clowns. Some are afraid of clowns.
Along the same lines as kids being afraid of ghosts… Some kids are not afraid of ghosts!
Don’t worry about it. It is good that there are differences in people.
There was also:
And who is Vetinari?
A Patrician.
That means nothing to us Plebeians.
He rules a city called Ankh-Morpork, which has a one man-one vote polity: He’s the man, so he gets the vote.
In other words, he’s a Renaissance-era enlightened despot trying to play [del]Thud[/del] chess with pieces who are either drunk, angry, utterly incompetent, or all three and plotting against each other at the same time.
That sounds like a line from a book by Richard Armour:
“Rome was [at this time] ruled by a triumvirate. This consisted of three men who spent most of their time plotting to kill each other.”
Well yeah. Donald Trump is the rodeo clown de jour. And add VP nominee Mike Pence and you have a (trifecta - 1) of hilarity. Self-driving Cown Cars will be supplied by Tesla.