There is a long tradition of clowns as entertainers in Jewish culture.

Mitzvah clowns have a tradition of getting dressed up wildly and bringing happiness to senior homes and children's hospitals to fulfill the Jewish mitzvah (commandment) of bikur cholim (visiting the sick).

Furthermore, many of the early clowns in vaudeville (the entertainment form that was very popular in the United States from the early 1880's to the early 1930's) were Jewish — stemming from the shtetls (towns) of Eastern Europe, when badkhonim (Yiddish-speaking court jesters) routinely entertained at weddings.

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