"He hopes by training Jim there will always be a human cannonball."

"Did you learn this from one of your relatives who's a human cannonball?"

More than 30 human cannonballs have died during the performance of this stunt.

The human cannonball, now 34, gave up the habit a year and a half ago, when he injured his back.

I ran away because my mother told me my father was a human cannonball.

"Just in case you were really worried that we'd be hit by the human cannonball," he said, smiling.

Human Cannonball did not return for the 2008 revival.

But the circus was not the same without the Human Cannonball.

"Maybe you should consider taking a less dangerous job, like human cannonball or crash test dummy."

He was also a human cannonball and a nonstop talker.