looking at famous clowns Buffo!

so I am looking into clowns and found Buffo apparently he is the worlds strongest clown, he is an ex baseball player who now entertains kids, as not the everyday look of a clown I wonder if kids like him as he is huge! if I was going to a party as a kid with a clown that has all of his mules out would make me more scared. The concepts of clowns are changing but I find that when some one is to say the world clown we all think of a funny man dressed in bight colours and a white panted face and big red lips.