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a person (especially in a circus or pantomime) who makes a living by dressing up and doing foolish or funny things

joking person

buffoon comedian comic fool jester mime prankster antic cut-up dolt gagman gagster harlequin humorist joker jokester madcap merrymaker mountebank mummer picador pierrot punch ribald wag wit zany droll farceur funnyperson funster jokesmith life of the party merry-andrew punchinello quipster wisecracker
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Cases of word usage

1) unusual behaviour or activity e.g. of a child or clown (antics)

2) a clown as in Italian comedy or English pantomime (harlequin)

CLOWN as in Wiktionary
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