Showmen Gifts

P.T. Barnum

"It's a letter from Bruce. He's touring in Europe with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show..."

Academic Idol - 'Professor Johannsen's paper was zippy. It had robust vocabulary and I almost felt that I could dance to it. I would give it a 7.'

Billy, can you deliver your show 'n tell this time without the fog machine?

'Wow, Jimmy, that's pretty good!'

Jarvis Cocker

E=Emcee Squared

"It also doubles as a karaoke machine."

'Boy that Donna BUGS me! Every party she goes to, she ALWAYS has to make a grand entrance!'

"Congratulations on your entertaining presentation skills Smith, and the way they hide your dismal sales figures!"

Jerry's dancing dogs

"You've got to give Hunter top marks for presentation."

"I promised myself I would never let this happen to me."

The Abominable Showman...

'I seek an audience with the king.'

'So let this be a lesson to you Courtney, 'there's no people like showpeople!''

"Miss Rudolf... you're pregnant!"

Elvis

An interview with Codlin and Short

'Show off!'

'You doubtless remember my speech last year...'

P.T. Barnum caricature.

"Oscar, we need a good actor to present the accounts at the next tax audit meeting."

The Real Mario Bros.

Boy and horse rider

"You can't just give a regular lecture. You have to use pyrotechnics."

Penn and Teller

The giants waiting on the dwarfs

Punch in the churchyard

'Piano Player'

"Like my dazzling smile? My teeth are capped with LEDs."

"You'd think a celebrity sex tape would display a higher degree of showmanship."

'I know you've seen a lady sawn in half before...but lengthways?'

Jockey trying to push a horse over a jump.

National Upstagers Society