Career
His abilities include circus skills, fire breathing, bed of nails, glass walking, human blockhead, human dartboard, stapling, swallowing 24 inch unlit glowsticks and regurgitating them completely lit up, bear traps, and comedy. He is most often booked in variety shows, vaudeville shows, burlesque shows, concerts, festivals, and theme parks. In the mid to late 1960s, a young Benjamin Wade witnessed some of the last of the traveling side shows working the fair and carnival circuit and he was hooked.
He developed a fascination with the working acts, the Blockheads and the Torture Kings, and over the years began to learn the secrets behind their feats.
lieutenant was after a particularly lucrative Mardi Gras excursion to the bars of Bourbon Street in New Orleans that Bennie realized he may have the beginnings of an acting He took on the name of SideShow Bennie, and began performing to thrill local audiences in his hometown of Nashville.
He began working regionally and soon began attracted a national audience. Bennie has performed at tattoo conventions, motorcycle events, arts festivals, colleges and nightclubs.
He has shocked and amazed audiences from Miami to Seattle.
He has appeared on television shows on networks such as East! Entertainment television, Human immunoglobulin heavy-chain-variable region -1, CMT, and he was the featured performer in the documentary Stomachs Of Steel, which has aired on The Discovery Channel. In the summer of 2007 he performed at Bonnaroo.
