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I have to denounce myself for laughing when reading that Bozo had a publicist! I don’t really know why I find it funny! Didn’t the dog on Fraiser, “Eddie”, have a publicist announce his passing as well?
Man! That immortality thingie is crumbling away faster than I could ever have believed!
Even for Bozo it’s a lot demeaning to have to deal directly with our media.
I became jaded after Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Famous Bozo story I heard told while in camp as a kid. Bozo used to run live in some areas. One of his bits was to have kids from the audience tell jokes. The following is the way one such encounter went with a precocious 9-year-old who was evidently dared by his slightly older brother.
Kid: “What’s the similarity between a woman and a frying pan?”
Bozo: “I don’t know.”
Kid: “You gotta heat ’em both up before you slide the meat in.”
Bozo (flustered): “Well, that’s not a very nice joke for Bozo.”
Kid: “Yeah? Well then fuck off, clown.”
That boy should have been dipped in bronze and shipped off to a Greatest Kids Ever museum right then and there.
When I was younger, my parents told me that Willard Scott was the original Bozo the clown, but the story your link directed me to indicates otherwise. I guess Willard Scott was the local Bozo for the Washington DC area. Bozo dead, I can’t even imagine!
He brought a lot of laughter to the world, so I imagine that if there is a heaven he’s probably there. Unless of coures in his other “real” persona he was a mean SOB!
Anyway, I didn’t know Bozo was dead until I read your post! Thanks for letting us know! I wonder if it will be on the evening news tonight?
Actually, I think what I once heard Willard Scott say (back before I decided puking breakfast made a bad start for the morning so I stopped watching “Today”) was that he was the original Ronald McDonald.
Good riddance to that nightmare.
– Old Bozo apparently had his own moments of slightly off kilter behavior, given his public image and role. He did indeed do some live broadcasts, some on radio of course. One such “event” was accidentally broadcast, due to that old media bugaboo of the “open mike”. It appeared on one of those “best of” tapes back some years go.
– rustling noises, background voices and sounds….
muffled voiceL”3 -2 -1 ….go….”
“….Well oh my my kiddies, looks like our fun for the day has come to the end, but be sure to listen to your mom and dad, and eat your cereal so you grow up big and strong…..’til tomorrow, this is your very best friend Boxo saying sweet dreams and lots of big pretty lollipops to you…bye bye now”
– Cue theme music and fade out….
– Pause…voice – ok lets wrap….noises…sound pops back on….
Bozo:”….didn’t seem to give a damn….Ok….glad thats done….I’ve got a splitting headache, and my feet are killing me….”
Muffled voice:”Did you see any (unintelligible) with the other boxes?”
Bozo?”No, the break was to short…..Anyway that should hold the little bastards for another day….(cough)….hey….shit…..is this thing live?”
– noises – voice in background…”Oh crap…..Is it?”
– silence – cue in station break and commercial.
– Rumor has it the Simpsons “Crusty” was modeled after Bozo.
I once heard Willard Scott say…that he was the original Ronald McDonald.
Quite true, although not quite Ronald as we know him.
Jerry-
When I was younger, my parents told me that Willard Scott was the original Bozo the clown
Willard Scott was also the first Ronald McDonald
Damn!
If I had “broadband access”, I’d have kicked SBP’s ass… :o)
Hated Bozo, but I like Harmon’s combover in the photo….
There are so many people whose names I don’t know but I know Chuck Adkins’ and that prompts a passing, semi-wistful reflection on opportunity costs I think. Ok it passed.
One less clown to haunt my dreams, become a serial killer, and/or molest America’s children. Clowns are worse than lawyers. And midgets.