Dudley Riggs’s engrossing book ‘Flying Funny’ My Life without a Net takes readers behind the scenes of circus life and the development of popular entertainment in America throughout the 20th century. Dudley Riggs talks about his incredible adventure. He didn’t have to flee his home to join the circus because his home was the circus. Riggs’s life was full of thrilling experiences, from his early days as a polar prince parading in a wagon drawn by a polar bear to his daring trapeze shows.