What is "clowned"

Usage examples of "clowned".

We all three clowned our way through a string of bollixes that should never have happened in the first place.

They clowned around, parodied scenes from my trial, and to please them I put a cheerful face on it, as I always did on visiting days, and managed to laugh even at the most dismal jokes.

Don Genaro had clowned in front of me before, and every time he had done it don Juan had asserted that I had been on the brink of "seeing.