The Salvini clowns from Italy performing on a German circus twelve years ago.

What better way to ring in the new year than with the man whose face is synonymous with the word "clown" AND who was born on Janua...

DESCRIPTION COMPLIMENTS OF CIRCOFRENIA Charlie Rivel, contemporary and friend of Grock, is one of the last great clowns of his generation. W...

  Mooky as Gloria performing with her poultry partner, Galina, in Regina, Saskatchewan. 

  Tom Dougherty and Pepe Silva stepping into the ring of the  The Great Lilloise Circus Festival in Lille, France.

The Circus Vargas Clown Alley performing a barbershop gag in (I believe) 1987. Starring George Clyatt as the barber, Marty T. Clown as his a...

Joe Wesson, Bob Kramer, and Skip Lackey perform a statue gag for a publicity (maybe a Clown College audition) on the Blue Unit in 1980.

Here are the three Emmett Kelly sections from Bette Middler's first television special on CBS that co-starred Emmett and Dustin Hoffman....

Al Rios and Max Richardson performing a repair gag on the Ringling Red Unit in 1997

Recently I discovered on an old hard drive that I had saved a lot of the videos from Pat Cashin's "Cashin Comedy Company" Yout...

A fantastic documentary on Grock from 1962 featuring performance footage I had not seen before. Enjoy! 

Burl and Popcorn demonstrating their skills on the Kelly Miller Circus in 1996

Andrew Scharff performing his Plastic Man routine during the Three Ring Adventure of Ringling's 129th Edition (Living Carousel) in 1999....

  Backstage shots of Jimmy Armstrong on the Beatty Show taken by Bruce Davidson in 1958.

A program page from 1974/1975 the Belle Vue Circus in Manchester featuring Jacko Fossett, Little Billy Merchant, and Jimmy Scott. Thank you ...

Seven years ago Pat Cashin, the founder and namesake of this blog, passed away much too young. Not a week goes by that I don't think of ...

Canadian clowns Mump and Smoot performing an excerpt from their show, "Something", at  Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario.

Nola Rae performing a sketch from her show "Upper Cuts" at the Shaw Theatre in London, 1984.

Chilean clown Matute Alvarez doing a version of Jeff "Gordoon" Gordon's toilet paper act. Matute will be clowning at Cirque D...

Sean Conklin and Kirby Soderberg perform a dentist gag during the 1989 Clown College graduation performance.