The odds of landing a coveted spot on the Ringling Bros. Circus’ elite traveling clown corps might be slightly higher than winning the lottery. But not by a whole lot. More than 4,000 clown ...

In the 1800s, English performer Joseph Grimaldi made ... out she is in love with the Harlequin character. European circus clowns later reached the US, where the ‘hobo clown’ was popularised ...

Movie"Tame a lion. Get shot out of a cannon. Wash an elephant. Jerrico will do anything to become a circus clown." Jerry and Pete are two friends with no money and are looking for a job.

The grotesque and glittering world of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus is his “Never-Never Land.” His fellow clowns are the other lost boys. And the only pirates they fear are ...

The common denominator was that we watched wide-eyed as these pros put on a show. There was no ringmaster or clowns, but this circus held my attention more than any I’d seen back home.

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For Chagall, the circus is much more than just a show: it's a theater of life, where clowns and acrobats embody both lightness and human fragility. The artist recalls his childhood memories in Russia, ...