Media Quotes
"The absolute must-see act is the Seattle-based Jim Rose Show" –Rolling Stone
"Freakmania is spreading unabated" –Newsweek
"The line in Salt Lake City stretched all the way to the Mormon Temple. They had to turn hundreds away" –Wall Street Journal
"His delivery is brutally comic. He plays the highly-strung audience like a violin" -The Independent, London
"Amazingly, it is actually fun. It may not be everyone's idea of entertainment, but then what is? It certainly does not deserve to be banned." –The Times Magazine, London
"We all went home satisfied, entertained and suitably appalled to the depth of our being" –New Music Express, London
"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" -Gerry Cottle (circus proprietor) in Sunday Telegraph, London
"Jim Rose is a cult hero" –Tucker Carlson, CNN
"Audience reaction in largely that kind of revolted amusement more commonly associated with tourists at a bullfight" –Melody Maker, London
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