Again with the Creepy Clowns

I watched the first episode of the new season of American Horror Story  series "Cult" last night and my first thought was "here we go again with the creepy clowns." Add this to the new film version of Stephen King's It that came out this weekend (again, complete with the requisite creepy clown, Pennywise) and we're right back into creepy clown country. As I've said before, clowns have gotten a bad wrap for a long time. John Wayne Gacy pretty much killed the image of the clown as a funny childhood friend. Then you've got Krusty from The Simpsons as the cynical, washed-up clown who has one persona for the cameras and another, less-flattering one, when the cameras aren't rolling. I don't think clowns will ever go back to their Bozo days. Kids now just aren't into clowns and the media sure isn't helping. Probably in another twenty or thirty years, clowns will just be relegated to the dust-bin of has-been performers like ventriloquists and mimes.