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Knowing it could take years to get seats, new mom Chris Breault of Kankakee, Ill., wrote for five tickets to Bozo's Circus in 1977. She expected to give birth a few more times and didn't want any of her not-yet-conceived children to miss out on the chance to be part of the beloved TV show. The yak-haired clown with the red nose and floppy shoes had provided Breault with some of her favorite childhood memories, and she longed to sit in the studio bleachers with her own kids. By the time her tickets finally came...
...long. Breault's childhood will officially end in August when Bozo, the country's longest-running kids' TV character, goes off the air in Chicago, the last city where he still takes pratfalls. With its relentlessly slapsticky approach to entertaining kids, and competition from edgier children's fare on channels like Nickelodeon and the Cartoon Network, "this type of programming is a dinosaur," says Joey D'Auria, a former stand-up comic who has played Bozo on Chicago's WGN since 1984. The station's general manager, John Vitanovec, calls cancellation of the low-rated show "strictly a strategic decision...
...What I originally envisioned was doing a parody of "Bozo's Circus," which ran in the Midwest for years - still runs. It's really just, you know, I started combining puppets and live animals on the Conan show, most famously with Triumph the dog, and this is just an attempt to see how stupid that technique can get. It's an experiment. Right after "The Dana Carvey Show," I really had the idea to do something like this, and I got to do some of it on "Saturday Night Live," but I wanted to do more than 10 cartoons...
Name calling? This is the same Bush who helped persuade his father to label Michael Dukakis a "bozo" in 1988. Yet he acted hurt again last week after Gore, chatting on Air Force Two, said Bush should "put up or shut up" on prescription-drug benefits. Bush ignored the substance of the remark, saying, "That doesn't sound very presidential to me." His communications director added that anyone who would make a "playground challenge" with "that kind of bitterness" shouldn't be President...
KATHIE LEE I've always prided myself on being able to work with anybody. The times that Gelman and I had tension were when I've wanted somebody on the show and he's not wanted them on. I should have the right to say, "I want Bozo the Clown...