Bongi’s Head to Head
Posted By thecircusblog on May 21, 2009
After a while I had to stop doing so many balancing tricks because the act became too long… what with the comedy and my father doing tricks with the other chimps. It was easy to do a fast and funny 30 minutes and sometimes longer which was ok at a fair or night club but not in a circus. Louie Stern of Polock Bros. Circus would time the act every show. He never said a thing, but Dad and I thought we had to cut down the time of the act. Not long after cutting some tricks and some funny stuff, we shortened the act down to 12 or 14 minutes…..A few shows went by and Louie told Ross Paul that he wanted to see Dad and I. We waited for Louie to finish talking to some Shriners and then he looked over when he was done talking and said to me “what the BLANK happened to chimp act?….. it’s to short”! I started to say “I thought you wanted us to cut the time down” when he interruped me with “I don’t care how long you run the act….. just as long as you keep them laughing.”
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