In the new one-man show, “Humor Abuse,” which opened Saturday at the Mark Taper Forum, actor Lorenzo Pisoni plays a clown reminiscing about a life of pratfalls, juggling, and the divorce of his ...

"Humor Abuse," the hilarious and heartfelt story of growing up in a circus, created by Lorenzo Pisoni and Erica Schmidt. "Humor Abuse" was originally presented in the spring of 2009 at the Manhattan ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - It’s easy to understand why some people, usually children, suffer from coulrophobia — fear of clowns. Strangers in baggy pants and wildly colored makeup spritzing seltzer could ...

If you don’t laugh your pants off when Lorenzo Pisoni, in enormous flippers, swim cap and goggles, struggles to clamber up a ladder and dive head-first into a small bucket of water, you might be ...

“I’m not a clown. I’m portraying one in the play, but I don’t really consider myself a clown.” Lorenzo Pisoni tells us at the start of Humor Abuse, his one-man show nowat the Mark Taper Forum, that he ...