We had this coulrophobics discussion a long time ago on this board. I think clowns are very scary, but had to play one in a show years ago. And I was pregnant! Ha! One of my dear friends said that I was the only clown she'd ever seen who hadn't frightened her. Curiously, they bother me more as an adult than they did as a child. Claribel on Howdy Dowdy didn't bother me at all.