ringmaster
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Behind the seeming anarchy of Monty Python, Terry Jones played the part of ingenious ringmaster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
But Johnson is nothing if not a punchy ringmaster of deadpan humor and his grab-bag mindset generates enough goodwill to appreciate the DIY brashness of it all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026
Then, in 2010, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made Ricky Gervais its returning ringmaster and things went up before plummeting sharply downhill from there.
From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2026
That meant that he was seen as the undoubted ringmaster of rock excess - a career defining reputation that stayed with him right to the end.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2025
Her rival had challenged her to a duel in order to show the Marvellian world who, in fact, was the best ringmaster of them all.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
And the ringmasters for the last 45 years have been the Buss family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2025
But if the ringmasters are in blue, it's those in green playing the sad clown.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2023
But there was one notable absence in a room filled with would-be ringmasters, macabre clowns and more than one person capable of hanging from a hoop suspended from the ceiling.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2022
In previous episodes one might have called out the ringmasters, Heilemann especially, for hamming it up — a quality political junkies who watch “The Circus” may find either entertaining or irritating.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2018
"Huh!" says I. "One of these fam'ly ringmasters, is he?"
From Torchy, Private Sec. by Lincoln, F. Foster
