Jim Rose Circus
The Jim Rose Circus is a modern-day version of a circus sideshow. It was founded in Seattle in 1991 by Jim Rose and his wife BeBe Aschard Rose. The sideshow came to prominence to an American audience as a second stage show at the 1992 Lollapalooza festival, then called the "Jim Rose Circus Sideshow", although they had toured the Northwest and Canada and had several US TV appearances before this time. "Rolling Stone" magazine called the show an "absolute must-see act" and USA Today termed Rose's troupe "Lollapalooza's word-of-mouth hit attraction . Tours. After Lollapalooza, in 1993 Jim Rose headlined seven world tours and released a self-titled video on Rick Rubin's American Recordings. This video quickly became a cult classic. In 1994, the Jim Rose Circus was chosen to tour with Nine Inch Nails, Pop Will Eat Itself and a then-unknown Marilyn Manson, and later with KoRn and Godsmack. 1998 saw another world tour featuring female sumo wrestling, Mexican transvestite wrestling and chainsaw football. The show landed Rose and troupe in jail in Lubbock, Texas and for four months the show was banned from New Zealand. Jim Rose was 	Jim Rose Circus
3750824	also the top ticket of the Melbourne (Australia), New Zealand and Edinburgh (Scotland) Fringe and Comedy Festivals. Performers. Rose himself performs in between acts, mostly comedy but often stunts as well such as attaching paper currency to his forehead with a staple gun, driving a long nail into his nostril and having darts thrown into his back. During the show's final act, he would escape from a straitjacket. His most outrageous trick followed: he would invite audience members to stand on his head after he had placed it in a shallow crate of broken glass. Television and other media	Jim Rose Circus
3750825	. Jim Rose and The Enigma were featured in the Season 2 episode of The X-Files", "Humbug"; the episode was set in a community of sideshow and former sideshow workers. Homer Simpson runs away and joins the Jim Rose Circus as a cannonball catcher (not to be confused with a human cannonball) on the episode "Homerpalooza" of "The Simpsons". "The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow" video tape (1993 American Recordings) was re-released in 2003 as a DVD by Moonshine Music. "The Jim Rose Twisted Tour" was a seven-episode series that debuted March 2003 on the opening week of the  Travel Channel, although only five episodes were aired. It was released in 2006 on DVD, which includes all episodes. Jim Rose appeared in the movie "Doubting Riley", a film by HBO's Project Greenlight alumni. Publications. Jim Rose wrote the autobiographical "Freak Like Me (Real, Raw, and Dangerous)" with journalist Melissa Rossi in 1995 (). The book describes Rose's early years and features a stream of consciousness on-the-road account of the Jim Rose Circus tour with Lollapalooza. The book's title is a reference to "Black Like Me". Rose also released the book 'Snake Oil (Life's Calculations , Misdirections, And Manipulations)" in 2005. Rose was written about extensively in Marilyn Manson's autobiography 'Long Hard Road Out Of Hell'. The stories refer to the 1994 'Downward Spiral Tour' with Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails. Politics. According to an interview with "Oddities Magazine", Jim Rose claims to have been involved in fundraising for the Mo Udall political campaign during a time in his life when he was addicted to heroin. He was quoted as stating that "[Mo] ran against Jimmy Carter and I was his fundraiser... I used to do fundraisers with like Gregory Peck and Robert Redford , actually while I was on heroin. They didn’t know... actually I forgot to tell them." Consultant. Rose has been hired by corporations including Microsoft and regularly speaks as a consultant for PR firms; in this regard he has been pictured on the cover of "The Wall Street Journal" and "Fast Company", and is featured in the marketing book "The Deviant's Advantage". In 2008 Rose was hired as spokesperson and performer for Dos Equis in the "Jim Rose Most Interesting Show In The World" U.S tour. Rose has also served as a spokesman for Gordon's Gin. Reception. "Rolling  Stone" described the circus as an "absolute must-see act". "The Independent" praised the show as "brutally comic", adding that Rose "plays the highly-strung audience like a violin". "Melody Maker" compared the "revolted amusement" of the audience to that of tourists at a bullfight. British Circus proprietor Gerry Cottle said, "I've seen a lot of things in my time. I must see 40 circuses a year, but this lot... They came on in their street clothes and then... They're beyond anything I've ever seen. They shocked me." "The Times Magazine" said that while it may not  be everyone's idea of entertainment, it certainly did not deserve to be banned.