clown vs front man

clown

noun
  • A person who acts in a silly fashion. 

  • A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig. 

  • A clownfish. 

  • A stupid or badly-behaved person. 

verb
  • To ridicule. 

  • To act in a silly or playful fashion. 

front man

noun
  • A person acting as the public face of some other, covert group. 

  • The lead singer in a musical group. 

  • striker, attacker, forward. 

How often have the words clown and front man occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )