[Morgana]

RIP

[yarddog]

I liked Claribel better.

[golux]

Thanks, Morgana. I never understood the current infatuation with clowns being "scary." Commedia dell'Arte is a delghtful and very human tradition, and we seem to have lost it, somehow, via cinema. We embrace flitting ghosts on the screen, but reel when we see a man in a funny costume.

[ExNewsExSpook]

The definitive “Bozo,” in the view of many, was Bob Bell on WGN-TV in Chicago. But the real genius was Larry Harmon, who bought the rights to Bozo in the mid-50s, and licensed the show around the country, with various TV personalities playing the clown in their market. Harmon made a lot of money in cities he only visited to sign (or renew) the licensing agreement.

BTW, Harmon was extremely jealous of the success Bell enjoyed as Chicago’s “Bozo.” At one point, kids who wanted to attend a Bozo show on WGN had to wait up to five years for tickets.

[Eddie01]

Fun fact.

Cheap Trick’s drummer Bun E. Carlos’ father played Bozo the Clown.

[lizma2]

Grew up with Chicago’s Bozo’s Circus. Later Garfield Goose, who introduced us to the weirdest cartoon ever....

Clutch Cargo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFnLirXjjto

Also Family Classics, just wholesome movies my family would all watch together each week.

Now families just plant their faces if front of screens. I don’t think this is gonna work.

[Mr. K]

I was in Buffalo, NY at the end of this era there.

A smartass little kid came on the show and told a dirty joke, about a woman being like an oven because you gotta heat them up before you put the meat in.

Bozo shouted “Oh- That’s a Bozo No-no!” and the kid replied “Eat sh*t, clown” and blammo- they were off the air.

“Eat sh*t, clown” became a popular catch phrase for at least a year after that.

[Deplorable American1776]

Hey Dems, the job opened up... Oh wait, congress is a bunch of clowns.... 😀

[FrdmLvr]

Thinking about the MTM episode of funeral of Chuckles the Clown.

[Yaelle]

I had no idea this guy was still alive.

That is one creepy ass clown.

[henkster]

I assume Bozo’s remains will be cremated.

And the ashes placed in Bucket #6.