Comedy Hand Balancing Routine
Posted By thecircusblog on May 21, 2009
The comedy with Bongi started almost from the very first day I got into the act with my father in the mid 1950’s. It was my intention to have a strict chimp act with hard and different tricks and controlled humor. I didn’t want to be like all the other chimp acts. Bongi seemed to have a different idea. He seemed to live to make a fool out of me in every performance. He actually would embarrass me at times. No matter how I complained my father and others wanted to keep that slap stick comedy in the act. The booking agents loved it and so did the audience and eventually so did I. This photo shows the beginning of what is supposed to be a serious hand balancing routine but as you can see.. Bongi began with the foot in the face. It was kind of like Laural and Hardy from then on.
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