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unusual facts about Sideshow



Alan McKee

He has also worked in media production, most importantly on the television series Big Brother Australia, where he served as Media Expert in the first season; and script writing for the Australian television series The Sideshow, featuring Paul McDermott (comedian)

Avintes

During the French invasion of the peninsula Avintes was likely a sideshow; the parish did not have part in the great battles, although the Duke of Wellington may have chased Marshall Soult's forces, crossing the Douro in the immediate location, since crossing at Porto would have been difficult.

Bobby Eli

His credits as a songwriter include million-selling singles, "Love Won't Let Me Wait", by Major Harris (#1 R&B, #5 pop, 1975), which he also produced and arranged; "Just Don't Want To Be Lonely" by the Main Ingredient (#8 R&B, #10 pop, 1974); and Blue Magic's "Sideshow" (#1 R&B, #8 pop, 1974), as well as "Three Ring Circus" (#5 R&B, #36 pop, 1974) for the same group.

Bushkill Park

A pair of vintage sideshow banners by Fred G. Johnson were bought from the park for US$700, and sold for US$10,000.

California Institution for Men

In The Simpsons episode Day of the Jackanapes, Sideshow Bob is in prison watching television when a guard states "lights out." Sideshow Bob states that, "At Chino, they get to stay up 'til nine".

Charles Tripp

Charles B. Tripp, Canadian-American sideshow performer, known as the "Armless Wonder"

Claire Hooper

Her television credits include guest stand-up appearances on Stand Up Australia and Rove Live, a presenting role on How the Quest Was Won and a regular segment on The Sideshow.

Clarence Chesterfield Howerton

His small physique was often contrasted alongside larger circus sideshow acts, such as the juvenile obese and the excessively tall.

Fedor Jeftichew

The video games Blood and Blood II: The Chosen have references to a sideshow performer named "JoJo the Idiot Circus Boy".

Fig leaf

Eugen Sandow, often considered the first modern-day bodybuilder, was an admirer of the human physique, and in addition to strongman sideshows, he performed "muscle displays" by posing in the nude — save for a fig leaf that he would don in imitation of statues he had seen in Italy as a boy.

Fiji mermaid

Exhibits at Ripley's Believe It Or Not, Coney Island's Sideshow by the Seashore, and Bobby Reynolds's traveling sideshow all lay claim to the title, but in Nickell's opinion, none is to be believed.

Frank Lentini

His career spanned over forty years and he worked with every major circus and sideshow including Barnum and Bailey and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Frank Radice

During his early years, he sang and played guitar in several rock and blues bands including The Righteous Brothers, Peaches & Herb, The Phil Flowers Band and Sideshow.

Funeral for a Fiend

Sideshow Bob then reveals a large pile of TNT, with which he will kill them, using a laptop with a defective battery (which will overheat and explode) as a detonator.

Horace Ridler

At some point between 1927 and 1934, while living in Mitcham, a few miles south of London, Ridler took steps to improve his career as a sideshow act.

Jägermeister Music Tour

Beginning with the Spring 2003 tour, the event has been hosted by The Lizardman who appears onstage throughout the night performing sideshow stunts, stand-up, and introducing the bands.

Koo-Koo the Bird Girl

She appeared in the 1932 film Freaks, alongside a cast of other sideshow performers from the time.

Rodger Corser

Rodger was also the lead vocalist in a 4-piece cover band called "Sideshow Bob" that played around a few Melbourne pubs during the mid-late 90s (1995-1996) – namely at places like the Royal Hotel in Essendon, Victoria, Australia.

Roslyn Walker

You will see amazing tricks on a single wheel from World champion unicyclist Kaleigh Grainger; comedy, juggling and high-wire walking from Harley the Clown; as well as Walker's own daring feats of escapology and classic sideshow stunts all accompanied by live music from fiddler Ed Wright and guitarist Stu Dench

Slymenstra Hymen

She also performed her sideshow act with the Brothers Grim Sideshow and Lucha VaVOOM, the wrestling/burlesque show, under the alias of Danyella De Meaux.

SpokAnarchy!

Several of the cast have achieved notoriety since the perod depicted in the film, including Paul D'Amour, the original bassist for the band Tool, circus sideshow performer Zamora the Torture King, and the creator of Internet meme Keyboard Cat.

The Amazing Boobzilla

She is better known by her stage name The Amazing Boobzilla and is a performance artist and sideshow performer based in the Oklahoma City area.

Tingsek

, Loosegoats, Sideshow Bob, Fjärde Världen, Adam Tensta, Slakah the Beatchild, Ane Brun, Ana Diaz, Ebrahim, Svante Lodén, Chords, Pauline, Sarah Dawn Finer, Paula Nelson, Isak Strand vs. Toe, and Gaby and The Guns.

Wolf Girl

Scott McClelland, who played The Amazing Pin Cushion, is actually a professional sideshow performer, and runs a show called Carnival Diablo.


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