The circus has always been about big laughs, colourful characters and a little bit of silliness. From clowns and ringmasters to daring acrobats and mischievous animals, the circus world is full of comic possibilities. If you’re in the mood for a quick chuckle, these circus jokes might just have you laughing louder than the crowd under the big top.

I have just been offered a job as a clown. My boss told me the other guy was good. Seems to me I’ll have some big shoes to fill.

A circus owner runs an ad for a lion tamer and two young people show up. One is a good looking lad in his mid-twenties and the other is a gorgeous blonde about the same age.
The circus owner tells them: I’m not going to sugar coat it. This is one ferocious lion. He ate my last tamer so you guys better be good or you’re history. Here’s your equipment: chair, whip and a gun. Who wants to try out first?”
The girl says, “I’ll go first.” She walks past the chair, the whip and the gun and steps right into the lion’s cage. The lion starts to snarl and pant and begins to charge her. About half way there, she throws open her coat revealing her beautiful naked body. The lion stops dead in his tracks, sheepishly crawls up to her and starts licking her ankles. He continues to lick her calves, kisses them and rests his head at her feet.
The circus owner’s mouth is on the floor. He says, “I’ve never seen a display like that in my life,” He then turns to the young man and asks, “can you top that?”
The young man replies. “No problem, just get that lion out of the way.”

I was looking through the employment section of the paper today and saw a vacancy for an acrobat. I thought, perfect, I could do that standing on my head…

A circus owner walked into a bar. Everyone was crowded about a table watching a little show. On the table was an upside down pot with a duck tap dancing on top of it. The circus owner was so impressed that he offered to buy the duck from its owner. After some wheeling and dealing they settled on $10000 for the duck and the pot. Three days later the circus owner stormed back to the bar in a rage. “Your duck is a rip off! I put him on the pot before a whole audience and he didn’t dance a single step!” “So?” asked the duck’s former owner, “did you remember to light the candle under the pot?”

Before my father died he worked in a circus as a stilt walker … I used to look up to him…

I was knocked over by a clown car! Luckily, 17 people got out to help.

The knife swallower finally solved his cholesterol problem. He stopped swallowing butter knives!