Photos courtesy of Bill Strong The Toledo, OH Shrine Circus of 1933 was produced by Hagenbeck-Wallace. These are some of the clown photos fr...

Photos by Paul Gutheil If you were teaching a class of circus comedy novices in "Clowning 101" and had to illustrate the Auguste a...

"Dental Assistant" Arturo Figueroa gets a tongue lashing from an unidentified clown during the Dentist Chase on the Ringling show....

One of the truly great White Clown/ Red Clown partnerships in modern American circus clowning, Billy Vaughn (Auguste) and Mike Snider (White...

People often ask me where they can get a real yak hair clown wig. I had my custom made in New York but most people don't have the time o...

Current Ringling Blue Unit Boss Clown Scott O'Donell a few years back on Vidbel's Olde Tyme Circus as seen through the lens of Paul ...

A Paul Gutheil portrait of longtime veteran of the recent Ringling Alleys, Leo Acton. For more info on Leo, please click the title of this p...

Birthday greetings go out today to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College graduate, former Ringling road clown, longtime Ronal...

Photo by Paul Gutheil Another great Paul Gutheil photo, this one of Ringling Clown College graduate and longtime star of the Big Apple Circu...

Saturday's photo by E.J. Kelty got me thinking about circus photographers so this week we are going to feature shots taken by, IMHO, the...

Photo courtesy of circusbutterflygurl Another great find by circusbtterflygurl, it's Joe Jackson Jr.'s promo photo with hsi contact ...

Photo courtesy of Rik gern Felix Adler, Lou Jacobs, Charlie Bell, Chesty Mortimer, Paul Wenzel, Jack LeClair, Gijon Polidor, Prince Paul... ...

Academy Award, Emmy Award, Golden Globe and Tony Award winner Henry Fonda in the General Electric Theater television adaption of Emmett...

Every artist dreams of painting their masterpiece. This is Emmett's. Not the funniest gag in the circus world, but inarguably the b...

Video of Emmett performing his Feather Balancing Gag on an early (unidentified) television show.

A friend recently took me to task for ignoring Emmett Kelly on this blog. It's true. In over 700 posts I don't think Emmett app...

Photo courtesy of Bill Strong Not sure about the little people down front but the clown cop on the left looks like Charlie Lewis, that's...

The opening scene (according to the film, a nightclub in beautiful downtown Asbury Park, NJ) from Milton Berle's 1949 film ALWAYS L...

Bob "Doodles" Kelmer, star clown at the Circus World Museum last summer, looks on in loving reverance at the legend that looms lar...

Rudy Coby "The Coolest Magician on Earth" performing the Multi-Leg Gag I enjoy Jeff "Le Clown Gordoon" Gordon's vers...