Lou Jacobs Video (1987)

Lou Jacobs (right) and Frosty Little (left) performing a classic European-style (or vaudeville-style) clown reprise(French) Short piece performed by clowns between acts during prop changes or equipment rigging. (See also: Carpet Clown) for the students at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's Clown College in Venice, Florida. Interestingly, this is a spoken reprise(French) Short piece performed by clowns between acts during prop changes or equipment rigging. (See also: Carpet Clown), a style that neither them, nor their students could perform in the three-ring format in which they professionally worked. Frosty played the part of the traditional European white-face clown (the straight man), although neither his makeup, nor his costume corresponded to the part (see for example Pipo Sosman or Francesco Caroli). (1987)

See Also

• Biography: Lou Jacobs, Frosty Little
• History: Clown College