How do you make a five year old giggle like crazy for a half an hour, you ask? Make him the star of a Hanukkah video in mid June when he lea...

Lou and Paul assisting an unidentified woman in a photo from National Geographic from March of 1948.

Photo courtesy of Bill Strong A photo from the 1931 Sells-Floto program that shows Spader Johnson (far left), Pat Valdo (2nd from left) and ...

Photo courtesy of Sandy Weber Sandy Weber sent this in response to the recent request for information on Everett Hart... Hey Pat! I found th...

I had the chance to catch Bill Irwin's new show The Happiness Lecture at the Philadelphia Theater Co. last night. I don't think tha...

Percy Huxter with the Queen at the Bertram Mills Circus at Olympia in 1952.

Lou Jacobs performing his Baby Buggy Gag on the Ringling Red Unit in the mid 70s with the assistance of Serf Rocha.

Paul Jung on the Ringling show performing one of his favorite track gags with the assistance of someone who does not look to be Prince Paul ...

The best use of "boomwhackers" that I've seen so far. To learn more about "boomwhackers" please click the title of t...

Photo by D.A. Hill, Poster by Karl Simmons One of my very favorite contemporary performers, Tomas Kubinek. Find out more about him here .

Billy and Mike with the cast and crew including Sue and Jenny Vidbel and Tepa Hall.

Photo courtesy of Thomas C. Fitzgerald Serf Rocha on the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Red Unit. This photo mark's clownalle...

Please click the title of this post to be taken to Monday's AP story about Mr. Carroll Spinney, the man who has played Big Bird and Osca...

A "loving tribute" (down to the last detail) to Denis Lacombe's considerable talents as a writer and circus comedian, marred o...

Photo courtesy of Thomas C. Fitzgerald Natalino "Gianni Fumagalli" Huesca during come-in with the Big Apple Circus in Boston, 2008...

Photo courtesy of Billy Vaughn Billy Vaughn and Mike Snider doing their very funny Restaurant Gag on the Vidbel's Olde Tyme Circus in th...

Prince Paul Alpert with Michu. MICHU MESZAROS From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mihaly "Michu" Meszaros is a Hungarian circus ...

Video courtesy of Raffaele de Ritis The legendary Soviet clown Karandash in the 50s, in one of his reprises at the Moscow Circus. KARANDASH ...

Let me get this straight... this woman absolutely HAS to confront her deep-rooted fear of clowns, especially on television, because otherwi...