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Originally Posted by lorax
Really? The original Bozo? Cool.
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Not.
Chicago's "original Bozo" (Bob Bell) may have been the most popular. And if you wanted to say longest running I have no data to disagree. But he was not the original original Bozo.
Unlike today where everything is syndicated and piped in from Hollywood, Bozo was a franchise. If you had a TV station and someone who wanted to dress up like, well, a Bozo, you could put it on the air. Chicago's Bozo began in 1960. They had Bozo on TV in LA, California in 1949.
I was scarred for life to find out as a youth that Detroit's Bozo, actually came across the river from the lovely city of Windsor, Canada.