From ICHOF Executive Director, Greg DeSanto: Yesterday , October 24th, the International Clown Hall of Fame and Research Center experienced ...

  Emmett Kelly sketching Jerry Lewis most likely in the late 1950s or 1960s. Any more information on this photo would be most welcome!

Les Rudi Llata Clowns performing on the French television program, La Piste Aux Étoiles, filmed at the Cirque D'Hiver Bouglione in 1966.

  The beautiful female tramp makeup of Sandy Totman, who graduated Clown College in 1972 and toured with the Red Unit in 1973.

Josh Shack performing his music act at the Circus Smirkus Alumni Show in 2007. Josh began performing with Circus Smirkus in 2000, and curren...

For those of you paying attention, I mentioned Tandarica in yesterday's blog post about Los Calugas. I did a little digging and found th...

Los Calugas performing the "Tandarica act" on El Gran Circ De Nadal De Girona in 2019. I call it the "Tandarica act" be...

  Chase Culp is an alumni of Circus Smirkus, and has performed on Ringling, Cirque Musica, Circus Gasser Olympia in Switzerland, and most re...

  Photo courtesy of Gabor Hrisafis Matt Morgan, Joel Jeske, Adam Kuchler, Thom Wheaton, Mark Myers, Steve Lough, Lance Brown, and Gabor Hris...

  From Wikipedia: Born on 5 March 1953 in   Altstätten , Canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland, Gardi Hutter graduated at the Academy of Drama...

  François, Paul, and Albert perform their explosive photography entrée. I REALLY wish I could have seen THIS act!

Elmo Gibb, Larry Armstrong, Greg Long, Doug Keady, Mat Coes, James Houser, Jay D’Amico, and “Lil’ Dave” Williams perform the Recycling Machi...

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Claire Wedemeyer performing the baby gag on Kelly Miller Circus in 2006. Claire spent two years on the Ringling Red Unit in 2003 and 2004, a...

  Photo shared by Mark Renfro Lou does his impression of Old Faithful during his famous little car routine.

Greg DeSanto and Kevin Carr perform the engine gag during Come In of the Blue Unit's 120th Edition of Ringling in 1991. The engine gag i...

One of my favorite Spike Jones routines. Freddy Morgan's performance is a master class in clowning.

  Photo credit Paul Gutheil  A follow up to yesterday's post. Here are Scott O'Donnell, John Kennedy Kane, and Mike Snider photograp...

Video courtesy of the ICHOF archives. Scott O'Donnell, Mike Snider, John Kennedy Kane, aka Eggroll, and ringmaster Billy Martin performi...

  Need I say more?