11.   Cage took on the role of class clown, a role that at one point resulted in his being moved from one elementary school to another.

12.   Can a simple change of paint increase test scores, or can carpeting make a math whiz out of the class clown?

13.   Closet bibliophile or class clown?

14.   David Wells, the class clown, is not surprised that the pitchers have been so precise.

15.   Despite his raffish charm and quick wit, Smith was not the class clown as a boy, he says.

16.   Farley grew up in Madison, Wisc., where he had a reputation as the class clown.

17.   He is the most equal of equals, a catalytic class clown.

18.   He must embody a driven class clown and carry the character to his deathbed, by way of the familiar disease-of-the-week hospital scenes.

19.   He is casual about school work, preferring to play the class clown.

20.   He grew up there in poverty but was a class clown, his comedic talents inspired and supported by his parents and older sisters.