GRACIE ALLEN: "The Magic Act" (4/30/56)

SERGE DROUARD: The White Clown (February 25, 1970)

TOTO BROTHERS (1918)

CLOWN ALLEY: MDA Party (1954)

Look for TV's Magic Clown as well as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey clowns Albert White and Frankie Saluto, meaning this must be from the spring of 1954 when Ringling was in New York to play Madison Square Garden.

MICHAEL & SACHA COCO: Billy Smart's Circus Hospital Show (1955)

HOSPITAL CIRCUS

Many thanks to Hazel and Michelle Polakovs for confirmation!

KARANDASH: Idols (2011)

CESLEE CONKLING (December 6, 1965 - January 13, 1994)

Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others? That’s who we are! We’re not who we say we are, we’re not who we want to be — we are the sum of the influence and impact that we have, in our lives, on others.

 - Neil deGrasse Tyson on Carl Sagan

KARANDASH: Statue Entree

YURI NIKULIN: Idols (2005)

ARIANE MNOUCHKINE: "Clowns" (1970)

Courtesy of John Towsen and Drew Richardson

ACHILLE ZAVATTA: Christmas Eve (November 12, 1966)

JAMES THIEREE: Television News (May 26, 2005)

THE BARIOS: Car Entree (January 2, 1966)

FOOTIT & CHOCOLAT: Il Etait Une Fois Le Cirque (1983)

GROCK: Il Etait Une Fois Le Cirque (1983)

A SIMPLE TRUISM

Hearing "I hate clowns" invariably tells me more about the speaker than it says about the art form being denigrated.

THE FRATELLINIS: Il Etait Une Fois Le Cirque (1983)

THE SALVADORIS: Hollywood Palace (January 4, 1964)

Courtesy of Raffaele de Ritis

First aired fifty years ago today on the very first episode of Hollywood Palace...

JERRY LEWIS: The Day the Clown Cried (Behind the Scenes Footage & Interviews)

IT'S HARD WORK TO MAKE YOU LAUGH: By Cy La Tour (The Rotarian Magazine, August 1949)