High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Edmund Sherwood (1864-1946) was an American circus clown and author. Sherwood worked in circuses during the golden period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and wrote two popular circus memoirs: Here We are Again: Recollections of an Old Circus Clown (1926) and Hold Yer Hosses! The Elephants are Coming! (1932).