Notoriously eccentric, Doug Ashton's Chaplinesque clown character is widely regarded to be one of the funniest ever to appear with ...

Larry H. writes in to tell me that congratulations are in order. According to his records former Ringling great (and according to some sourc...

Here it is again: The Bird Entree. I'm not sure who this is performing it. They do a masterful job with the material but it's still ...

I'm finally home again after the enormous Happy Liuzhou International Clown Festival in Liuzhou, China. I'll post some photos and so...

Sorry, it's EXTREMELY hard use blogger from China. Enjoy!

I don't have a lot of time, I have to catch a plane. This clip will have to speak for itself. I'm hoping that John Cooper will ...

Photos courtesy of Don Covington (via aucirque.com) Photos from American clown Barry "Grandma" Lubin's recent triumphant run o...

I leave today for an large international clown festival in Liuzhou, China where I'm thrilled at the opportunity to work alongside (and g...

A photo that looks to have been taken at the old Madison Square Garden, probably in the 20s, at a PR event with "non traditionally or d...

Paul Jung wasn't the only clown with an Army Gag way back when. Even though his was VERY widely imitated in America, this one is entirel...

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A great clown, a great puppeteer and a great dinner conversationalist, Mr. Christopher "Hoot" Hudert on the Ringling Red Unit duri...

After a long career in vaudeville Chaz Chase sort of dropped out of sight in the 1940s, only to re-emerge in the 1950s as a sought-afte...

It's time to get moving on something that Tom Dougherty had suggested when I saw him a few months ago... Frank "Slivers" Oakle...

After the era of Slivers Oakley, Spader Johnson, Al Maico and Buck Baker guys like Bluch Landolf, Paul Wenzel, Jack LeClair, Felix Adler and...

I'm hoping some of the European folks could help me out with the name of this act? It's from a 1960s French video and I can't ma...

The greatest knockabout comedy act in the history of vaudeville, Willie, West & McGinty in their Paramount short PLASTERED from 1930. Ir...

Photos courtesy of Bill Strong Avner's show the other night with Mark Jaster seems to have put everyone in an Avner frame of mind and ...

The promo video for Avner's show EXCEPTIONS TO GRAVITY. It strikes me that Avner's show is actually closer to what people are trying...

Here's Paul Lopez, a very talented young clown that I worked with last season on Mike Naughton's Yankee Doodle Circus, performing Gi...