There are way too many Bozos in this world. It’s like going to see “The Temptations” at an amusement park. They are simultaneously playing in another state. It’s a ball of confusion.
But this Bozo, who just passed away at 89 years of age, I think this is the Bozo who I watched in NY when I was a kid.
RIP.
ht/ JS
So he’s not just any bozo, he’s THE Bozo.
“Cram it clown.”
RIP
Pinto Colvig was the original Bozo. Local boy from Jacksonville Oregon. Also the creator and voice of Walt Disney’s Goofy. His graffiti autograph is on the wall of the Southern Pacific station in Medford, Oregon.
Crap I saw a clown passed and thought it may have been Obozo
RIP Bozo, you made many smile
I think we’re all Bozos on this bus
We’re all bozos on this bus.
C’mon, squeeze the wheeze.
http://firesigntheatre.com/media/audvid/bozos1.mp3
@Fur, I grew up in Florida and there were Bozo segments shown on the locally produced live kiddie show.
I ‘m 90% sure I remember seeing Bozo and the local personality who hosted the local show on camera together at the same time. All of it live, mistakes and dropped props and all. Fun times.
I’m thinking that Bozo may have been a franchise arrangement for local stations.
Pay a licensing fee and get shipped the costume, the scripts and license to use the character name.
My mother was a bozoette in high school
I didn’t think Willard was that old.
I ain’t dead …….. and neither is Schmuckey ……….
So’z this klown is a intra=leper.
I remember him, The Merry Mailman and Tom Corbet & the Space Cadets. My Dad built a TV from a kit in the late 40’s. There were only a few channels back then: 2,4,5,7,9,& 11. And we NOT allowed to touch the dial…
I heard McCain was sick, but it’s still a bit of a shock…
Groucho, bet she didn’t talk to you much.
Damn… was hoping it was Schmuckles… 🙁
I so sorry for your loss, Fur. I completely understand.
But there’s no clown who can replace J.P. in my heart.
Those were some shining times we had, Bozo.
Gnawing on a push up ice cream and hoping the next cartoon was Woody Woodpecker
He had a superfluous third nipple.
Or so I understand…
He was my Bozo too. 🙁
Anyone remember a kiddie show called “Romper Room”? Ours was a local production with a nice local host, “Miss Penny”. I’m told now that was also a franchise. Local stations subscribed and received the franchised format, a series of scripts, etc, with whatever local personality they chose as host.
Clowns scare me
I thought Bozo was Willard Scott and I do remember Romper Room.
Gee I totally missed you said ‘my’ clown.
Growing up near Boston, he (Frank Avruch) was my Bozo. We also had Big Brother Bob Emery, Rex Trailer and later, Major Mudd.
“You’re livin’ in the past, man! You’re hung up on some clown from the 60’s, man!”
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—-Clown on Seinfeld after being derided for not knowing who Bozo is
Rufus: I remember romper room; my younger brother watched it. My tastes were much more sophisticated. I was a Sheriff John man.
Was Engineer Bill a franchise, or just an LA thing?
Larry Harmon (real name Lawrence Weiss) was the original Bozo.
I know, Wikipedia link, but…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Harmon
Growing up in NW Indiana, we watched Bozo on WGN out of Chicago. I didn’t realize until much later that it was a franchise. Always wanted to be on the show and win the prizes.
I remember Romper Room with the Do Bees and the Don’t Bees with Miss Florence back in the late 50’s and early 60’s. Her son Scott was in love with my wife before I met her and married her. He showed up at the reception at my in laws house unannounced looking for my wife and my Mother in law told him she got married that day and he asked my MIL for an aspirin because he had a headache. My wife and I both laughed, what a Bozo.
The lowdown on Bozo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bozo_the_Clown
I don’t know, I was always suspicious of a man who wore make-up and his best friend’s was named Butchie Boy.