Circus clown of George M. Cohan. He was also one of the main models for "Uncle Sam". With changes in circus and popular culture after the Civil War, his legendary talents under the big top have gradually slipped into almost total historical obscurity; biographer David Carlyon (2001) called him "the most famous man you've never heard of". While Dan Rice's talking and singing clown was taking America by storm, a new type of clown was emerging on the British pantomime stage, one that would have a more lasting influence on contemporary American circus clowning. George Lafayette Fox was America's first great "whiteface"
The Family Circus Circus" fans after poking fun at the "Family Circus". In the week of June 27, 2005, Stephan Pastis portrayed the cartoon Keane family inviting Osama Bin Laden into their house. Bin Laden is captured by the police while following Billy's dotted lines, and the whole family is imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for harboring a terrorist. The 2016 graphic novel "The Fun Family" by Benjamin Frisch tells the dark story of the family of the creator of a "Family Circus"-like strip. The Family Circus The Family Circus (originally The Family Circle, also Family-Go-Round) is a syndicated comic strip created by cartoonist