Annie Fratellini sitting among the ruins of the Cirque Medrano building in Paris, France in 1972. Both the building (before demolition) an...

Josh Zehner and Todd Obuchowski perform "The Pigeon" during the graduation performance of the 1997 class of Ringling's Clown C...

I don't have much information on this video aside from it is Tommy Fossett as Professor Grimble. One of my guesses for the location is B...

From the collection of Ralph Pierce. Zapata, Johnny Peers and Stephen Brennan on Circus Vargas in 1974. Zapata and Johnny Peers met at Ringl...

The extremely talented artist, Elena Zaïka, has had two of her paintings chosen to be used as celebratory stamps for the Monaco Principality...

Prospective students for the Ringling Clown College audition for Frosty Little on the Blue Unit in 1985.

Many of you that watched the Bozo Show in the late 90s until the show's end in 2001 will remember Robin Eurich, who played Bozo's si...

Happy New Year from the International Clown Hall of Fame and Pat Cashin's Clown Alley!  January 1st is not only the start of a new year,...

  From Le Grand Chapiteau: In 2004, with subversive, crazy audience participation numbers, Toto (Guillermo Castineiras) and Voki (Voki Kalfa...

A couple more program scans from the collection of Ralph Pierce. In the first you can see a white faced Tom Sink, better known as "Popc...

Andrey Jigalov was born on April 21, 1966 in Chelyabinsk. He grew up on the CHP. From an early age he was engaged in music. At the age of 13...

A British Pathé film from 1961 entitled Girl Clown  showing Valentina Rowland, Nicolai "Coco" Poliakoff's granddaughter, perfo...

Photo credit: Paul Gutheil Mike Snider backstage after performing the mouth chase on Vidbel's Olde Tyme Circus in the 1990s. The mouth c...

Brad Leavitt, Matthew Pauli and David Solove performing in the 1991 Clown College graduation.

For the next few days I will be sharing some circus program scans from the collection of Ralph Pierce. First up, the Clyde Beatty Cole Bros....

Mark Anthony performing that perennial favorite, "Bigger, Bigger". I'm not sure of the year or show; perhaps Showfolks in Sara...

  Robleigh Majors, a 1986 Clown College graduate, on the Kelly Miller Circus in 1987. Boy would I hate having that wardrobe on a mud show!

Stephan Kreiss milking every laugh out of the simple act of going up stairs. This is an excerpt from Spymonkey's production of Moby Dick...

Don Saunders performing in 1960. I would love any more info about him (John Cooper? Bobbo Roberts?) I've heard conflicting reports of hi...

Many thanks to Bobbo Roberts for sharing these masks of clowns who performed on British circuses that could be found on the backs of boxes o...