Have clowns ever not been evil in movies?

That's my question to you today, dear readers.

Jason asked us to choose our favorite drunken clown couple in Shortcuts early in the week (have you voted yet?) to celebrate International Clown Week. I thought to do a follow up post but every time only horror films came to mind and it's just not the right time for that. Are there any non-scary clowns in the movies? Besides Anne Archer in Short Cuts, that is. Even Jimmy Stewart, who was largely a warm screen presence onscreen outside of Vertigo, was of mysterious and possibly murderous history when he played one in the much-maligned Best Picture winner The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), never taking his makeup off.