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 ...

To extend the metaphor from this space a week ago, my email inbox spilled over with responses about my column headlined ...

Though the Ringling Bros. retired in May, dry your eyes and pop your clown nose on; there are plenty more circuses you can visit wide-eyed or run away to and join. No joke: Circus scholar Janet ...

Was that really a circus I had just witnessed? Somewhere, the Ringling Brothers were spinning in their graves, or flying on a ...

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 ...

Among those seen are Circus Sarasota co-founder and aerialist Dolly Jacobs; her father, the famed clown Lou Jacobs ... space dedicated to the era of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus ...

“As a garrulous retired professional circus clown I cannot help ... was accepted to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. After his Ringling Brothers heyday and Mexico nights ...