R.I.P. Bozo The Clown

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Another Childhood memory gone.

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx/?news ... &GT1=28103

[Whazzup]

Gosh, that's too bad. You're right, Pirate, one by one our childhood friends and heroes are biting the dust. So sad.

[drcorey]

Gosh, that's too bad. You're right, Pirate, one by one our childhood friends and heroes are biting the dust. So sad.

geez, I was floored when 3 of the Winnie the Pooh voices died.
Fiedler, Holloway and Winchell. I grew up to thier voices.
and I was too young to remember the first voices, like colvig and edwards.

p.s. for 5 points name who did which charactor....

[felinefan]

Gosh, I finally got to see him without his clown makeup on!

They say the following incident was only on the Chicago version, but I was living in Ventura at the time, so somehow it got to the West Coast:

On Bozo's Circus, they had kids play games of skill in order to win prizes, which included being "Butch For A Day" as well as the much coveted Treasure Chest of Toys. One little boy had tried but failed to win the Treasure Chest, and was verbally expressing his disappointment in an inappropriate way. Bozo told him, "That's a Bozo no-no", and the kid replied, "Cram it, clown!" I happened to be out of the room at the time that aired, and when I returned, I asked my brother and sisters what was so funny, and they told me. Next day, some of us were going out somewhere, leaving a couple of family members to watch Bozo. My brother told one of my sisters, "Let us know if somebody else tells him to cram it."

I swear that one incident was instrumental for the popularity of the word "no-no"; before that I never heard it except when said to a baby or toddler. Afterwards, it entered the mainstream.

[BriDon51]

geez, I was floored when 3 of the Winnie the Pooh voices died.
Fiedler, Holloway and Winchell. I grew up to thier voices.
and I was too young to remember the first voices, like colvig and edwards.

p.s. for 5 points name who did which charactor....

Colvig - Goofy
Edwards - Jiminy Cricket

[JugglingFreak]

geez, I was floored when 3 of the Winnie the Pooh voices died.
Fiedler, Holloway and Winchell. I grew up to thier voices.
and I was too young to remember the first voices, like colvig and edwards.

p.s. for 5 points name who did which charactor....

and:

Fiedler:Piglet
Holloway: Pooh Bear
Winchell: Tigger

[DisneyMom]

I used to watch Bozo every afternoon after I came home from kindergarten. It was the beginning of my TV couch potato ways!: :p:

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Colvig - Goofy
Edwards - Jiminy Cricket

Also, little known fact, Clovig was the ORIGINAL Bozo!

[hobie16]

Having Bozo The Clown and Jesse Helms die on the same day may be proof that God does exist and has a sense of humor.

Namaste, O Great One. I honor the place where your sick sense of humor and my own become one.

[Ms. Matterhorn]

On Bozo's Circus, they had kids play games of skill in order to win prizes, which included being "Butch For A Day" as well as the much coveted Treasure Chest of Toys. One little boy had tried but failed to win the Treasure Chest, and was verbally expressing his disappointment in an inappropriate way. Bozo told him, "That's a Bozo no-no", and the kid replied, "Cram it, clown!" I happened to be out of the room at the time that aired, and when I returned, I asked my brother and sisters what was so funny, and they told me. Next day, some of us were going out somewhere, leaving a couple of family members to watch Bozo. My brother told one of my sisters, "Let us know if somebody else tells him to cram it."

I remember that story going around when I was a kid! It must be true because that is the exact same story I heard about thirty (okay, forty) years ago! I believe Bozo at the time was played by Vance Colvig.

"Butch for a day"? Hmm, just one day?