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shot from a cannon ... a dust covered photograph by Weegee (Arthur Fellig)

   
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a 1945 NBC television production

   
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a Bob Peak illustration

   
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1846 France       see full size

   
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a first Century BC comedian,  from an old book about jesters

   
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a 1914 ventriloquist ... there seems to be a dispute

   
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a Constantin Alajalov 1942 illustration

   
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a Drew Friedman illustration       see full size

   
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an 1816 insult comic  "Who raked this filthy crowd together? ... What a beastly crew am I among"

   
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a Chuck Jones background from a 1949 Bugs Bunny animation

   
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Italian Gymnast Signor Ethardo walks a ball up a giant spiral ramp at the 1866 London Exposition

   
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popular 1901 singer and dancer Lilliputian Queen Chiquita   

   
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a print by Peter Barker-Mill

   
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1912  "London's human spiders"       see full size

   
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Paris sensation Josephine Baker by Paul Colin, 1927

   
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Bugs Bunny

   
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Peter Arno  "I'm afraid as a child actor he's through."

   
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Peter Arno  "What you really want is to marry the girl and settle down.
But you can't,  because you're a gorilla."

   
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a Rene Bull book illustration

   
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Maurice Gosfield,  known as 'Doberman' on the 1950s television comedy 'Sergeant Bilko'

   
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a Bernie Fuchs illustration       see full size

   
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working one's way up the entertainment ladder in 1910

   
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an actual photograph of Marilyn Monroe while a baby

   
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"Tall White Devil"   an admittedly funny 1800s China comedian

   
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comedian Phillis Diller,  1960s

   
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an old Harrison Cady cartoon

   
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1865 New York zoo whales,  brutally transported       see full size

   
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Andre Castaigne

   
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Ludwig Hohlwein,  1921

   
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