A magnificent French Canadian man who hides behind make-up and a red nose, and writes very funny things for his carnies, because that's what clowns do when they rule the circus.
Paul Ryan was so very funny when he thought he could pull off the Vice Presidency of the United States... if only he would have been Le Clown funny ha-ha...
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)