Happy Lou Year from Pat Cashin's Clown Alley! Let's kick off 2022 with an awesome interview with Master Clown Lou Jacobs filmed on t...

I'm not as great with Spike's band as I used to be, but from left to right: Top: Earl "Sir Frederick Gas" Bennett, ?, Jack...

A segment focused on the 1999 Ringling Red Clown Alley from the TLC special “The Greatest”. Tim Tegge is featured at the beginning putting o...

  Photo shared by Danise Payne Danise Payne and Garry White visiting with aerialist Ron Pace on the Universoul back yard. Danise and Garry b...

The Clown Alley for the Circus Circus Casino in Las Vegas, NV. Scott Linker, Peggy King, Colleen Linnehan, Dave DeDera, Ray LeClair, Eric Za...

Tim Conway gets some help from The Three Stooges as he gives a lecture on The Anatomy of Visual Comedy. This segment was part of the 1965 te...

  Either Frosty Little is ready for the Ringling Blue Unit’s 116th Edition finale in 1986 or 1987, or he was pitching his own sci fi TV seri...

  Photo shared by Chris Connors Gideon Sanders and Brandon Magnuson on Clyde Beatty Cole Bros Circus in 1995. Both were graduates of the Rin...

  Many well wishes to Emily Carragher, former Ringling, Fossett’s Circus, and Varekai clown, who opens the new Cirque Du Soliel Show, Drawn ...

  Would love to learn more about these two if anyone has anything to share. I know they performed in Europe, and appeared on the program La ...

Les Francescos (Francesco, Ernesto, and Enrico Caroli) are some of my favorite clowns. I first saw this act on one of Mike Martin's vide...

Here is a short act performed by Mike Smith at the Clown College 1994 Faculty Show in the historic Al Ringling Theater located in Baraboo, W...

  Francis West, Ted “Zippo” Tutweiler, Dale “Herky” Smith, and Joe “Skippy” Schmidt. Francis and Dale were both recent graduates of Ringling...

  Photo credit: Longtime Clown Alley wardrobe man and amazing photographer, Bill Swift Barbara Nolan (Kinkade at the time), with her dog, Mi...

  Cirque Alcatraz is in Columbus, GA, which John Kennedy Kane, aka “Eggroll”, informed me is the birthplace of longtime Beatty clown and rin...

Tom and Tammy Parish, Dan Rooney, and Erin and Laura Presley perform the magic gag on The Bozo Show while Ringling’s Blue Unit was in Chicag...

Three clown headliners kick off the ceremonies for the 40th International Circus Festival in Monte Carlo.

Five years ago today, Pat Cashin was taken from us, way too soon. He started this blog fifteen years ago, and although I don’t think I’ll ev...

  Paul Wenzel, famous for building beautiful props out of piano wire and silk.

The very funny Rolf Knie.