RIP Bozo

[Moderator1]

Say it isn't so! Not Bozo!
Loved Bozo the Clown as a kid. Actually got on the Bozo show once, when I was four. Freaked and ran offstage. Dude was scary in person.

http://news.aol.com/entertainment/television/tv-news-story/_a/man-who-played-bozo-the-clown-dies/20080703181309990001?icid=100214839x1204955074x1200233047

 

[mike311gd]

George: How about Bozo?
Kid: Who's Bozo?
George: Who's Bozo? Bozo the Clown, that's who Bozo is. When I was a kid, Bozo the Clown was the clown, bar none.
Robin: George...
George: With the orange hair, and the big clown shirt with the ruffles...
Robin: George...
George: And the TV show! He had cartoons!
Robin: George! Forget Bozo, George. Bozo's out. He's finished. It's over for Bozo.


Strange. ...

 

[Dickens Cider]

I watched Bozo every day on WGN when I was a kid.

 

[Appgrad05]

I remember watching the show as a child and being told my aunt had been on it when she was little. I was so freakin' jealous. I tried to get my parents to drive to Chicago and take me, so I too could be a contestant.

 

[dooley_womack1]

I was thinking of the hundreds of people the thread could be about. Then I realized it was literally about Bozo. RIP.

 

[slappy4428]

RIP sir.. I remember playing the albums when I was a kid and singing along...

Was even on the show...

 

[vonnegutnaked2]

I remember watching the show as a child and being told my aunt had been on it when she was little. I was so freakin' jealous. I tried to get my parents to drive to Chicago and take me, so I too could be a contestant.

Through furious research, I, along with another reporter, have come to realize that this isn't the same Bozo from the WGN show.

I guess I don't feel like part of my childhood died now.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Actually got on the Bozo show once, when I was four. Freaked and ran offstage.

Sissy boy.

 

[BYH]

Actually got on the Bozo show once, when I was four. Freaked and ran offstage.

Sissy boy.

Really. I no longer worry about how I must train in order to outrun Moddy around the Harbor. Any one who is that much of a sissy will no doubt quit a few feet in. I'll kick his ass even with my $4 Steve and Barry's sneakers causing several stress fractures.

(Moddy, you may not know this, but Ragu and I have decided we're running with you at the Harbor next summer. Just an FYI)

 

[Moderator1]

I'll give you guys a head start and see you back inside. Finish line is the bar at Phillips.

 

[HejiraHenry]

At Obama HQ, one name is, with great regret, crossed off the veep list.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

When I clicked on this thread, I was dreading that it was Willard Scott, who also portrayed Bozo (as well as the original Ronald McDonald.)

Still, RIP to a man who made a lot of children happy.

 

[slappy4428]

I'll give you guys a head start and see you back inside. Finish line is the bar at Phillips.

Some of us were on it and didn't freak out, Nancy-boy...

 

[Batman]

I remember watching the show as a child and being told my aunt had been on it when she was little. I was so freakin' jealous. I tried to get my parents to drive to Chicago and take me, so I too could be a contestant.

Through furious research, I, along with another reporter, have come to realize that this isn't the same Bozo from the WGN show.

I guess I don't feel like part of my childhood died now.

It took two of you to figure that out? What a bunch of clowns.

 

[Barsuk]

OK, so this isn't the Bozo from WGN? Because I always wanted so badly to win the Schwinn bicycle and the brand new $50 bill.

 

[Some Guy]

OK, so this isn't the Bozo from WGN? Because I always wanted so badly to win the Schwinn bicycle and the brand new $50 bill.

That $50 bill was crisp, I tell ya ...

 

[JR]

Clowns are ****iing scary. Ask HC. Or anyone who's read King's "It"

 

[slappy4428]

Clowns are ****iing scary. Ask HC. Or anyone who's read King's "It"

Buckweaver just got the chills and knows exactly why...

 

[JC]

I was worried something had happened to Mizzou.

 

[Some Guy]

This thread would have taken a different tone had it been titled: "RIP, Bozo."