It seems Donald Trump found the excuse he was looking for: after over a week of shaming and name-calling, Trump announced today that he would bow out as moderator of Donald Trump's Very Classy GOP Presidential Primary Debate. "So that there is no conflict of interest within the Republican Party, I have decided not to be the moderator of the Newsmax debate...I believe this would not only have been the most watched debate, but also the most substantive and interesting debate," Trump hilariously wrote in a statement. At least he was able to get a plug in for The Apprentice! more ›

So much for the shaming tactic: Ron Paul, Jon Huntsman, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann have now ALL dropped out of Donald Trump's Very Classy GOP Presidential Primary Debate. Facing the prospect of a mano-a-mano slugfest between Newt "Tiffany Historian" Gingrich and Rick "Please Don't Google My Name" Santorum, even Donald Trump himself is now looking for ways to get out of this debate! more ›

Successful Jeopardy contestant Brian Levinson and his circus clown friend Eric Broomfield were rescued from their burning Queens apartment by the FDNY early Saturday morning. 33-year-old Levinson, who won $73K in prize money from Jeopardy in 2008 and has appeared on the game show Cash Cab, retained burns to 12% of his body, including his face, head, and arms. Firefighters helped Levinson out of the building, while Broomfield had to be carried out. "I found him in the bathroom," Ladder 163 Captain Jim Hay tells the Daily News, "It was heavy smoke condition. He couldn't get past the fire." more ›

Attorneys for the city are determined to roll over a local unicyclist who won't backpedal on a $3 million lawsuit. You'll recall that Kyle Peterson, a professional circus performer, was issued a disorderly conduct ticket in 2007 for riding his unicycle on the sidewalk at 3 a.m. in Bed-Stuy. Peterson—who we assume was out in search of an ass-kicking, not a summons—was undeterred, and he was ticketed yet again in November of last year for the same offense. Days later, he filed a $3 million lawsuit against the city, arguing that although bicycling on sidewalks is illegal, there's no law against unicycling. more ›

We'll say this for Iranian President and clown-of-the-decade nominee Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: he puts his money where his big fat mouth is. After he gave his annual please-pay-attention-to-me speech at the General Assembly last month, he called on the U.N. to form a committee to get to the bottom of 9/11. When the liberal elites of that fascist organization ignored him in their typically smug fashion, he was undeterred. He borrowed a page from fellow rebel Inspector Clouseau, and formed a ragtag posse of independent truth-seekers to investigate 9/11 themselves. (You can see a video of his "eureka" moment below) more ›

National prize Chris Brown has been asked to read to children at a Harlem charter school. The controversial singer, who is trying to rehabilitate his image, was invited to attend and participate in the annual "Family Read Night" at Sisulu-Walker Charter School on Nov. 18. Despite his past troubles, some seem ready to forgive and forget; one parent at the school told the Daily News, "He's coming to read to the children. He apologized on TV. Sometimes in real life we make mistakes." And sometimes we do this in real life, then ask a convicted 20-year old clown to be a role model to our kids! more ›

While clowns marching across 34th Street this week may have drawn protests for the elephants they led across town, Bozos popping up across 22nd Street seem only to delight anyone aware of the office war they have been conscripted into. Daily Intel has an account of the "Bozoff" going on in the windows of two Grammercy offices directly across the street from one another. After an inflatable Bozo from their Christmas party hung out unassumingly in a Harrison & Star window for a couple of months, it recently found itself confronted by another Bozo in the VideoHelper window that faces it. After the clowns both shot some threatening signs each other's way, VideoHelper stepped it up and now have a Bozo gang of four clowns standing guard over 22nd. Harrison & Star promises retaliation, has had brainstorming meetings on their next move and "treated the Bozo payback initiative like any other client project." VideoHelper has a funny blog detailing their battle plan thus far, including a funeral for a Bozo that deflated and they then taxidermied. more ›

This weekend marked the beginning of the 3rd annual NY Clown Theatre Festival at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg. Festivities began with clowns taking to the streets with a subway parade. Clowns such as Lord Oxford and Graspy McTakeItAll led a crowd of about 100 strong onto a rush hour L Train where they sang along as a marching band played standards such as "Come On Eileen" and "Groove is in the Heart." more ›

Back in January video emerged of an enthusiastic street performer, Matthew Silver, dancing in front of Earwax record store on Bedford Avenue. It seems that a war has been going on since, between the employees of the store and the ever-growing troupe of Silver's clowns (dubbed the BC Fools) that adorn the outside of its shop. more ›

Former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey and his ex-wife Dina Matos McGreevey are making sure they're not letting the best interests of their six-year-old daughter get in the way of their bitter divorce. The publicly feuding pair were back in court yesterday, where they were excoriated by a judge. The McGreeveys split when the governor resigned amidst a sex harassment scandal in which he famously announced that he was "a gay-American.""The hatred you have for... more ›