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frankj1 Offline
#1 Posted: Wed, Mar 21 2018, 7:48 PM EST
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before you get upset with my lack of respect for the dead, Frank Avruch (a neighbor of mine when I was a kid) the original Boston TV Bozo the Clown has passed on to the Big Top in the sky.

Not sure, but seem to recall his was the original Bozo tv show.
HuckFinn Offline
#2 Posted: Wed, Mar 21 2018, 8:00 PM EST
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https://www.google.com/search?q=bozo+youtube&oq=bozo+youtube&aqs=chrome..69i57.5398j0j7&client=tablet-android-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
Ewok126 Offline
#3 Posted: Wed, Mar 21 2018, 8:14 PM EST
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I remember watching Bozo in the early 70's was a different actor but as they say, The world's most famous clown for sure. Good memories as a kid.
tailgater Offline
#4 Posted: Wed, Mar 21 2018, 9:01 PM EST
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCUz6aS2wKM

It's 5 minutes long.
You owe it to yourself to watch.
tailgater Offline
#5 Posted: Wed, Mar 21 2018, 9:18 PM EST
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He was 89.
Just 11 years from having Willard Scott announce his birthday...
RMAN4443 Offline
#6 Posted: Wed, Mar 21 2018, 9:19 PM EST
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I was on Bozo's Big Top with my cub scout troop back in about 1968 or 1969...a year or so later my scout troop went on the Major Mudd show,and I got to open the space ship door.....the door malfunctioned,so I didn't get on tv.....my big shot at stardom,and I blew it
delta1 Offline
#7 Posted: Wed, Mar 21 2018, 10:33 PM EST
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d'oh!
frankj1 Offline
#8 Posted: Wed, Mar 21 2018, 11:05 PM EST
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RMAN4443 wrote:
I was on Bozo's Big Top with my cub scout troop back in about 1968 or 1969...a year or so later my scout troop went on the Major Mudd show,and I got to open the space ship door.....the door malfunctioned,so I didn't get on tv.....my big shot at stardom,and I blew it

Major Mudd was soooo much better...sorry Bozo.
tailgater Offline
#9 Posted: Thu, Mar 22 2018, 8:38 AM EST
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RMAN4443 wrote:
I was on Bozo's Big Top with my cub scout troop back in about 1968 or 1969...a year or so later my scout troop went on the Major Mudd show,and I got to open the space ship door.....the door malfunctioned,so I didn't get on tv.....my big shot at stardom,and I blew it


You were on Bozo's big what?
DrafterX Offline
#10 Posted: Thu, Mar 22 2018, 8:53 AM EST
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Was he shot out in da woods..?? Huh
grmcooper Offline
#11 Posted: Thu, Mar 22 2018, 9:33 AM EST
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Poor TG
DrafterX Offline
#12 Posted: Thu, Mar 22 2018, 9:37 AM EST
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I knew Ho Ho... Had dinner at his home many times... Mellow
frankj1 Offline
#13 Posted: Thu, Mar 22 2018, 12:13 PM EST
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tailgater wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCUz6aS2wKM

It's 5 minutes long.
You owe it to yourself to watch.


predates Kentucky Fried Movie, from the original groove tube. Might have been the funniest thing this hippie ever saw.
RMAN4443 Offline
#14 Posted: Thu, Mar 22 2018, 1:08 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
predates Kentucky Fried Movie, from the original groove tube. Might have been the funniest thing this hippie ever saw.

The popcorn you are eating has been pissed on-film at eleven..Anxious
dstieger Offline
#15 Posted: Thu, Mar 22 2018, 1:21 PM EST
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HuckFinn wrote:
https://www.google.com/search?q=bozo+youtube&oq=bozo+youtube&aqs=chrome..69i57.5398j0j7&client=tablet-android-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8


Does Keith Jackson know that Bozo said Whoa Nelly?

Pretty sure my intense dislike of all things clown began with Bozo
Ewok126 Offline
#16 Posted: Thu, Mar 22 2018, 1:29 PM EST
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My sons GF has a phobia of clowns. She gets so pissed when I hang photos of scary clowns in random spots of the house like behind there bathroom door.

Im such a prick.
tailgater Offline
#17 Posted: Thu, Mar 22 2018, 2:29 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
predates Kentucky Fried Movie, from the original groove tube. Might have been the funniest thing this hippie ever saw.


I thought it WAS from KF Movie?
To get the clip I googled "kentucky fried movie clown".
tailgater Offline
#18 Posted: Thu, Mar 22 2018, 2:29 PM EST
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No props for the Willard Scott placement?
SteveS Offline
#19 Posted: Thu, Mar 22 2018, 4:34 PM EST
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It's not all that much more than 11 years before Willard Scott gets to announce his own 100th b-day, is it?
frankj1 Offline
#20 Posted: Thu, Mar 22 2018, 4:40 PM EST
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tailgater wrote:
I thought it WAS from KF Movie?
To get the clip I googled "kentucky fried movie clown".


probably was in KFM...the original Groove Tube was a TV experience, and I believe much of it was used in or at least inspired several skits of the movie a couple of years later. In Boston, The Groove Tube played in a storefront makeshift "livingroom" on Brighton Ave near B.U...IIRC.

Viewers entered a carpeted room with pillows all over the floor, a fridge filled with sodas, and a television set.

Someone entered the room after we were all situated on the floor, turned on the tv and shut off the lights.

first thing I recall was an official warning that stated "violators will be persecuted".

and then the parodies/funny commercials etc began. But it was not a real movie theater...I'm stalling trying to remember the name of the place we watched it.

I'll be back.
frankj1 Offline
#21 Posted: Thu, Mar 22 2018, 4:46 PM EST
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tailgater wrote:
I thought it WAS from KF Movie?
To get the clip I googled "kentucky fried movie clown".


probably was in KFM...the original Groove Tube was a TV experience, and I believe much of it was used in or at least inspired several skits of the movie a couple of years later. In Boston, The Groove Tube played in a storefront makeshift "livingroom" on Brighton Ave near B.U...IIRC.

Viewers entered a carpeted room with pillows all over the floor, a fridge filled with sodas, and a television set.

Someone entered the room after we were all situated on the floor, turned on the tv and shut off the lights.

first thing I recall was an official warning that stated "violators will be persecuted".

and then the parodies/funny commercials etc began. But it was not a real movie theater...I'm stalling trying to remember the name of the place we watched it.

I'll be back.
frankj1 Offline
#22 Posted: Thu, Mar 22 2018, 4:51 PM EST
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not what I meant...
So Groove Tube was like 3 years earlier, by Ken (?) Shapiro, who died recently.
I don't think he was involved in KFM but must have allowed/sold rights to a few scenes...I never saw KFM but believe the Sex Games bit with live coverage like the Olympics was in both.

from wikipedia:
The film is number 87 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies,"[4] and is considered, along with The Groove Tube,[citation needed] to be one of the groundbreaking films of the entire spoof and mockumentary genres of film making.
frankj1 Offline
#23 Posted: Thu, Mar 22 2018, 5:01 PM EST
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The Video Theater, of course.

Here is a bad review by someone without a sense of humor from 1971 when I saw G T
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1971/3/5/underground-television-groove-tube-at-the/
Bones33 Offline
#24 Posted: Thu, Mar 22 2018, 5:40 PM EST
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Ewok126 wrote:
My sons GF has a phobia of clowns. She gets so pissed when I hang photos of scary clowns in random spots of the house like behind there bathroom door.

Im such a prick.


So you’re saying you hang photos of Drafter in random spots in your house?
HuckFinn Offline
#25 Posted: Thu, Mar 22 2018, 5:48 PM EST
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Anybody else remember Clarabell finally speaking, saying "goodbye kids" on the final episode of Howdy Doody?
I was traumatized! I actually cried! Lol...
HuckFinn Offline
#26 Posted: Thu, Mar 22 2018, 5:56 PM EST
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dstieger wrote:
Does Keith Jackson know that Bozo said Whoa Nelly?

Pretty sure my intense dislike of all things clown began with Bozo

Wonder if anyone really likes them. Kids, maybe?
frankj1 Offline
#27 Posted: Thu, Mar 22 2018, 6:55 PM EST
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HuckFinn wrote:
Anybody else remember Clarabell finally speaking, saying "goodbye kids" on the final episode of Howdy Doody?
I was traumatized! I actually cried! Lol...

I also remember crying.
DrafterX Offline
#28 Posted: Thu, Mar 22 2018, 8:13 PM EST
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You want I should smack somebody around a little bit Frank..?? Huh
HuckFinn Offline
#29 Posted: Thu, Mar 22 2018, 8:31 PM EST
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DrafterX wrote:
You want I should smack somebody around a little bit Frank..?? Huh

What are you? Some sorta tough guy?
frankj1 Offline
#30 Posted: Thu, Mar 22 2018, 9:04 PM EST
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HuckFinn wrote:
What are you? Some sorta tough guy?

don't go there.
Loyalty has it's rewards.

No thank you Drafter. Take off tomorrow and make it a long weekend.
Ewok126 Offline
#31 Posted: Thu, Mar 22 2018, 9:12 PM EST
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Bones33 wrote:
So you’re saying you hang photos of Drafter in random spots in your house?



Well not of Drafter but, if it would scare the piss out of her I would.
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