We know where the clowns ended up!
🙏🇺🇸🇮🇱👍
Time to bring back the freak show.
I once knew a family in southern Oklahoma that grew hay for the circus animals. Didn’t know that was all gone now.
It is a different world. The dominant face of a clown is of a crazed murderer (e.g. Joker).
Even now, if you look at clown shows from a more innocent time, the vibe has now become creepy because of the world around us.
When I was a youngster, I always loved when the “Banana Man” performed on Captain Kangaroo. Now, I wouldn’t let the banana man within 30 feet of my wife or children).
Kramer is afraid of clowns 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
That I learned on Seinfeld
Glad I got to see RB & B and B as a kid, when it was really a circus. No way I’ll see whatever it is now.
They are trying to compete with cirque du soleil?
To be honest, the circus died long ago. The circus parade down mainstreet in each new town, raising the big top with the help of elephants, kids wanting to run off and join the circus, all part of a better past. The 1952 film ‘The Greatest Show On Earth’ is not great cinema, but captures some of the magic of the circus (and the circus was fading away even in 1952).
Give it time.
I for one will miss the painted naked women PETA protesters.
“IF you wait long enough, everything changes.”
There is no circus in the US any more.
I oppose animal cruelty but believe one can have a classic circus and well cared for animals at the same time. It’s a shame. I suppose proper circuses can still be enjoyed in other countries, I don’t know.
So...no clown car?
I was 5 or 6 at the time.
(Yikes, I'm beginning to get old...)
I saw the circus train sitting in the yard at Grand Rapids, MI several years ago. The circus still traveled by train. Unbelievable that occured as long as it did.
They were here in Pittsburgh last weekend, I have an 8 year old and debated taking her, but really wasn’t sure what it would entail.. Used to be an annual event before they shut down.
But if they got rid of all the animals, it really does leave one scratching what is left.
Trapeze artists, high wire, the motorcycle death ball stuff... clowns.... human cannonball, etc.. but I mean the animal acts were easily half the show... before.
Irony of ironies. The circus has become even more of a clown show by getting rid of the clowns (and basically everything else that made the circus a circus).
Oh, boo! My parents used to take me to this circus all through childhood.
I won’t miss the friggin clowns,.