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
Staging matches at the Stade de France, and attracting near 80,000 crowds in the process, was another of his ringmaster tricks.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024
The deep voice sounded like a circus ringmaster announcing the next act.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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
Jones and Wayans have both served as game show ringmasters.
From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2022
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
Gay banners, brightly comparisoned horses, white wildernesses of circus tents, tinselled clowns, royal ringmasters, joyful strains of music floated through his active brain.
From Andy the Acrobat by Peter T. Harkness
