Circus comedian Pat Cashin is a New Jersey based writer and performer who has worked with several leading American circus companies. He has been described as "an inspired architect of slapstick circus silliness" whose performances are "a cartoon cavalcade of idiosyncratic oddities and imaginative absurdities" and that he is a "passionate practitioner of his ageless, eccentric art", which is really just a long-winded way of saying that he's a circus clown that thoroughly loves his job.
A 1997 graduate of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, he began his career with Hansen's Spectacular Circus Thrill Show and has become a seasoned veteran with the Kelly-Miller Circus, Circus Spectacular, Circus Royale, the Hamid Circus, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros Circus and Caesar's Royal Roman Circus at Caesar's Atlantic City Hotel and Casino. When not touring he is the director of the Clown Doctor program at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, NJ.
In addition to many regional newspapers, he has been profiled in The New York Times and Life magazine.
Although he is first and foremost a circus comedian, many people recognize him from a number of high-profile television projects, most notably an award-winning Visa Check Card commercial with multiplying bunny rabbits which premiered during the 2001 Super Bowl.
Touring throughout the United States (and as far away as China and Singapore), he can currently be seen clowning and/or acting as "Comedy Ringmaster" at scores of Shrine Circus performances all across America.
Mr. Cashin, his wife, young son and dog all reside together in a house stuffed with clown props on the Jersey Shore.You Are 100% New Jersey! Wow, you're totally Jersey. There's no doubt about it. Congratulations, and always be proud to be Jersey--it's a great thing to be!
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