34 Facts About Circus clown

Nowadays a fourth type, the tramp or hobo Circus clown, is often recognized separately, even though, technically, it should be considered as another character Circus clown.

Whiteface Circus clown is traditionally costumed more extravagantly than the other two Circus clown types.

Character Circus clown adopts an eccentric character of some type, such as a butcher, a baker, a policeman, a housewife or hobo.

Prime examples of this type of clown are the circus tramps Otto Griebling and Emmett Kelly.

Character Circus clown makeup is a comic slant on the standard human face.

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Circus clown's father was Giuseppi Grimaldi, an Italian dancing master and pantomimist.

Circus clown had the most to do with the development of the pantomime character of Clown.

Circus clown's image was followed closely for the next 50 years by most British clowns.

Circus clown was famous and influential enough in his time to have had Charles Dickens write his biography.

Circus clown built a circus building in Philadelphia in the fall of 1792 in which he conducted a riding school.

Circus clown's advertisements referred to the equestrian exhibition as Ricketts Circus.

The new Circus clown was an accomplished actor and acrobat, and his variations on the classic comedy riding act "Tailor's Ride to Brentford" were extremely popular.

However, the first American Circus clown to achieve genuine star status was a jockey, gambler and strong man who used to catch cannonballs on the back of his neck.

Circus clown was born as Daniel McClaren, but he is better known by his mother's maiden name of Rice.

Circus clown ran for Senate, Congress, and President of the United States - dropping out of each race.

Circus clown changed the circus into what it is today by mixing animals, acrobats and clowns.

Circus clown was said to sometimes go too far and make the song coarse.

Circus clown started to take up politics and would often have Democratic undertones in his shows.

Circus clown was then regarded as not only a multi-talented performer, but a smart and noble man who was to be looked up to.

Circus clown won the affection of many newspapers and publicists including that of a then unknown Mark Twain and Walt Whitman.

Circus clown's shows became more famous than any of the other shows touring at the time including that of rival, Phineas Taylor.

Circus clown reinvented the theater into a vaudevillian style before there was vaudeville.

Circus clown was a very patriotic person later influencing the likes of George M Cohan.

Circus clown transformed it into a distinctly American style of humor reflecting the events of his day and influenced circus clown well into the 20th century.

Circus clown's character in this production was a distinctive American anti-hero and helped Humpty Dumpty become the most popular pantomime productions of the time.

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Circus clown initiated the tradition of Wednesday matinee's to take advantage of the show's appeal to children.

Circus clown is considered by many to be the funniest man of his time.

Circus clown is considered an influence on early film comedians including Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and the Marx Brothers.

Circus clown was removed from the stage during his last performance, and taken to an insane asylum where he died three years later, possibly as a result of poisoning from his lead-based white make-up.

Circus clown's parents convinced him to enroll at the University of Michigan but two years later Oakley was back under the big top.

Circus clown's first show was Andrew MacDonald's Circus, but in 1897 he joined the Ringling Bros.

Circus clown's featured gag was a one-man baseball game in which he played all the positions of both teams.

Circus clown went on to perform in other circuses, in vaudeville and was featured in the massive shows at the New York Hippodrome.

Circus clown married vaudeville singer Nellie Dunbar in 1902 and they had one daughter, Ruth.