Comments on: Bozo The Clown Dead

By: Obstreperous Applesauce

Obstreperous Applesauce — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 16:29:26 +0000

In reply to dean. The Ghoul is new to me. Recently saw Svengoolie while channel surfing though, apparently a campish hangover from the olden times.

By: Thetentman

Thetentman — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 02:40:41 +0000

My parents let me lose? My parents let me loose. Somewhere an Editor is crying.

By: dean

dean — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 23:20:48 +0000

We didn’t have Bozo on any available channel when I was a kid, but in the early 70s we did get The Ghoul.

By: MikeN

MikeN — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 21:08:42 +0000

In reply to Ahcuah. That's not who we're talking about?

By: Paul Hutchinson

Paul Hutchinson — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:45:16 +0000

There where a lot of people playing Bozo. Depending on the date of the incident it could have been the NYC, Boston or Worcester MA Bozo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bozo_the_Clown#Local_TV_Bozos

Of course it could just have been some bozo who just rented a clown costume.

By: Ahcuah

Ahcuah — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:17:24 +0000

To me, growing up in Chicago, the real Bozo the Clown was on WGN and played by Bob Bell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bozo_Show

By: Gregory Laden

Gregory Laden — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:18:51 +0000

In reply to Anonymous. Easily. Probably was him.

By: dean

dean — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 01:48:42 +0000

In reply to SteveP.

Yup — great choice.

After Bob Dylan won that weird Nobel Prize I read that Waits had called him to congratulate him and he and Dylan spoke for a long time. All I could think was “all natural peer to peer encryption.”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 01:29:01 +0000

Albany’s not that far from Boston. Could be done in 2 hours.

By: SteveP

SteveP — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:03:43 +0000

Bozo the clown may be dead, but Bolton the clown has arisen to reclaim his rightful place in the conservative hierarchy of angry old white men bent on bringing us back to a feudal? neolithic? amoebic? era.

Your memories of the local Bozo track so close to Crusty the clown as to make me think that maybe this is one of those Jungian things… you know, a universal archetype or something.

Also reminds me of a favorite Tom Waits song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2_snSkpULQ