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Bozo the Clown is the name of a clown whose widespread syndication in early television made him the best-known clown character in the United States. Partly as a result, the word "bozo" has become synonymous with a generic clown or a foolish person: For example, "I Think We're All Bozos on this Bus" was the title of a 1971 album by the comic group Firesign Theater. The word is said to have originated earlier among carnival entertainers. A clown participating in a Memorial Day parade A clown today is one of various types of comedic performers, on stage, television, in the circus and rodeo. ...
1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ...
Firesign Theater is a comedy troupe, most famous for their radio and album works. ...
Swabian-Alemannic carnival clowns in Wolfach, Germany A carnival parade is a public celebration, combining some elements of a circus and public street party, generally during the Carnival Season. ...
Bozo was created in 1946 by Alan W. Livingston. He released a children's record titled Bozo at the Circus for Capitol Records, along with an illustrative read-along book. Pinto Colvig narrated this record and subsequent read-along records. They were extremely popular and by 1949, KTTV in Los Angeles was broadcasting a children's show featuring Pinto Colvig as Bozo with his blue-and-red costume, oversized red hair and classic "whiteface" clown makeup, appearing on the then-new medium of "television." 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
Capitol record by Wingy Manone Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, founded in 1942. ...
Vance DeBar Pinto Colvig was a vaudeville actor, radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie voice actor, and circus performer whose schtick was playing clarinet off-key while mugging. ...
1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ...
KTTV (Channel 11) is a Fox television station affiliate in the Los Angeles area. ...
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Bozo became even more famous after Larry Harmon purchased the licensing rights to the character in 1956, and franchised it to local television stations in 1959 as a daily half-hour show with a live Bozo the Clown — a different man in each city in front of a studio audience of children — as well as five-minute cartoons. Many people became famous locally such as Frank Avruch (1959-1970) at WHDH-TV (now WCVB-TV), in Boston, and Bob Bell (1960-1984) and later Joey D'Auria (1984-2001) at WGN-TV in Chicago. Willard Scott (1959-1962) at WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. later became nationally known as a weatherman on NBC's Today Show. 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A cartoon is any of several forms of art, with varied meanings that evolved from one to another. ...
1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
Bob Bell (January 18, 1922 - December 8, 1997) was famous for his alter-ego, Bozo the Clown. ...
1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
WGN is the name of a television station broadcasting from Chicago, Illinois on Channel 9. ...
Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...
Willard Herman Scott, Jr. ...
1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The 1986 Peacock logo, designed by Chermayeff & Geismar. ...
The Today Show (officially called Today) is currently, a long-running morning news show airing on the NBC television network in the United States. ...
Helped along by the widespread local publicity, Bozo-themed toys and novelties were sold widely. By the mid-1960s, Bozo was reportedly grossing over $150 million in merchandise worldwide. Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around the world. ...
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Bozo on Chicago TV
The Chicago Bozo franchise was the most popular and longest-running. It also became the most widely-known as WGN became a national cable television staple. Chicago's "Bozo" debuted in 1960 starring Bob Bell on a live half-hour show weekdays at noon, performing comedy sketches and introducing cartoons. It evolved into Bozo's Circus in 1961 as a live hour-long show with additional cast members, a 13-piece orchestra, circus acts, games and prizes before a 200+ member studio audience. It underwent various format changes in the 1980s and 1990s. Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (and often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio waves transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional...
1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ...
Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. ...
Other significant characters on the Chicago TV show through its 40+ year run included "Ringmaster Ned" Locke and fellow clowns Sandy the Tramp (producer/writer Don Sandburg) and Oliver O. Oliver (Ray Rayner). Later on, Frazier Thomas, Cooky the Cook (Roy Brown), Wizzo the Wizard (Marshall Brodien) and Rusty the Handyman (Robin Eurich) joined in as well. At the peak of its run, the WGN Bozo show was wildly popular. By the early 1980s, there was a 10-year waiting list for tickets to the show. Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ...
The show also featured contests including the "Grand Prize Game" created by Don Sandburg, where two child contestants were selected from the studio audience with the Magic Arrows and later the Bozoputer. The game involved tossing a ping-pong ball into a series of successively-numbered buckets until the contestant missed. If they reached the sixth bucket and made the winning toss, they received a cash prize, a new bike and a trip.
The Bozo Super Sunday Show was the final incarnation of the WGN show, airing from 1994 to 2001. The show's format was revised in 1997 in response to an FCC rule requiring broadcast television stations to air a minimum three hours per week of "educational and informational" children’s programs. 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...
2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent United States government agency, created, directed, and empowered by Congressional statute. ...
Bozo stories Many rumors have arisen about misbehavior on a Bozo show making it onto the air although none have been substantiated and relatively few of the local Bozo episodes were preserved on tape. The most famous tale involves Bozo attempting to manage the behavior of an outspoken child by making the comment, "That's a Bozo no-no," which is said to have elicited the response from the kid: "Cram it, clownie!"
Ronald McDonald Immediately following Willard Scott's three-year-run as WRC-TV Washington, D.C.'s Bozo, the show's sponsors, McDonald's drive-in restaurant franchisees John Gibson and Oscar Goldstein (Gee Gee Distributing Corporation), created "Ronald McDonald the Hamburger-Happy Clown" and hired Scott to portray the character for their local commercials. Although the character's outfit was different from Ronald McDonald as he's known today, the McDonald's mascot evolved from Bozo. Ronald McDonald Ronald McDonald is a character, created in 1963, as the advertising mascot of McDonalds fast-food restaurant chain. ...
Mascots at the Mascot Olympics in Orlando, FL. A mascot is something, typically an animal or human character used to represent a group with a common identity, such as a school, professional sports team, or corporation. ...
McDonald's Corporation replaced Scott with other actors for their national commercials and the character's costume was changed. McDonalds Corporation (NYSE: MCD) is the worlds largest chain of fast-food restaurants [1]. Although McDonalds did not invent the hamburger or fast food, its name has become nearly synonymous with both. ...
Bozo around the world Bozo TV shows were also produced in other countries including Mexico, Thailand, Greece and Brazil. Larry Harmon has claimed that more than 200 actors have portrayed the clown.
Brazil In 1981, Brazil's famous TV show host Silvio Santos (founder and owner of today's SBT television network) decided to produce a national version of a Bozo the Clown show for the extinct TVS-Record TV station. Comedian Wandeko Pipoca was chosen by Larry Harmon to be the first Brazilian Bozo. 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Silvio Santos Sílvio Santos (born Senor Abravanel on December 12, 1930) is a TV show host in Brazil and owner of SBT (Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão), the second biggest television network in Brazil. ...
SBT logo SBT stands for Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão (Brazilian Television System, system being the word that the Portuguese language uses to describe a network of broadcasters). ...
With the clown's large success in Brazil, two more actors, Luís Ricardo and Arlindo Barreto, were hired to play Bozo for additional shows which ran from mornings to afternoons and more comedians were chosen to play Bozo in other parts of the country. Bozo's TV show ended in 1991 following the death of Décio Roberto, the last actor to portray the clown in that country. 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Brazil's Bozo won five Troféus Imprensa, a famous Brazilian award given to personalities and productions in the media (in 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1989), as well as three Gold Albums. 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The description Gold Album is applied to recorded music albums that have sold a minimum number of copies (in the US, currently 500,000 sales). ...
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