God Bless you, Bob Bell. My childhood was much better for having known you.
@AprilGalamin3 жыл бұрын
LOVE THIS, Bob Bell was the BEST Bozo. so many good memories. THANKS!!!
@debbutcher90876 жыл бұрын
Growing up close to Chicago, this was a sad event. Bob Bell was MY Bozo! Him retiring, Garfield Goose going off the air, Ray Raynor going off the air and Frazer Thomas dying was the end of classic Chicago television for children. Sadly, nothing was done to replace these wonderful programs. Children today don't know what they missed.
@danalong12376 жыл бұрын
Not to mention Ned Locke, Bob Trendler and Tommy Fitzsimmons retiring as well.
@debbutcher90876 жыл бұрын
Yes, Dana Long, they're all gone now. We'll never see children's TV shows like them again.
@banjoenthral957910 жыл бұрын
Thank you from the bottom of my heart!! Bob Bell as Bozo was an institution to us Chicagoland children back then!!
@deacongrooves10 жыл бұрын
Awesome video. Bob was a class act all the way...
@ThePHILALLENSHOW9 жыл бұрын
Bob Bell the best bozo the world has ever seen. grew up in chicago watching bozo"s Circus as a kid in the 1960s. Rip Bob Bell and John Drury chicago legends
@danalong12378 жыл бұрын
And RIP Ray Rayner, Roy Brown, Allen Hall, Frazier Thomas and Ned Locke, WGN-TV favorites.
@Nezmund8 жыл бұрын
I was in the audience at Bozo's Circus in 1968 when I was 12 years old. Shook the hands of Bozo, Mr. Ned. Oliver Ol' Oliver and Cookie. Didn't get picked for any games, nonetheless, a memorable experience.
@DarianCaplinger10 жыл бұрын
The Bozo Show was one thing I looked forward to every day as a child, and Bob Bell made that time special each day. The Bozo Show, Captain Kangaroo, Electric Company, Sesame Street (before Snuffy was found to be real), 3-2-1 Contact... they just don't make shows like that any more.
@danalong12378 жыл бұрын
Nowadays, cable networks like Disney Junior, Universal Kids and Nick Jr. are the perfect choices for children, and we hope that the WGN Bozo Show shows up in reruns on Sprout, Netflix and Antenna TV and that the show is released on DVD through Time-Life/StarVista one day!
@shawnduncan57792 жыл бұрын
I agree with you there. This was one of my favorite shows too along with Captain Kangaroo, Electric Company, Sesame Street, and Mister Rogers Neighborhood. I remember seeing and hearing that Bob Bell was retiring from playing Bozo the Clown. The Bozo show was also where I first saw the cartoons Mighty Mouse and Hekyll and Jekyll. Seeing this video brought back a lot of memories. I was 11 years old when this show ended. I am 48 and a half years old now. I still have fond memories of these shows. They were really great
@ThePHILALLENSHOW9 жыл бұрын
One more Thought on Bob Bell You would never guess he was Bozo just by looking at him on this Newscast.A Talented Man.I was 10 watching Bozo circus is on the air I loved that when the show started by ring Master Ned.Feel like a kid again when i see all of these video clips.Bob Bell will surely be missed.
@townhall054469 жыл бұрын
What made Bozo so great ('Bozo's Circus' during the Bob Bell era) was that the cast always remembered that there weren't just kids watching, but their parents too, and even people who had grown up watching the show who made the transition to grown-up viewers. There was often humor that the kids didn't catch but the grownups did. Example: in one skit, Wizzo the Wizard is going to do a trick and pulls out "The Purse... of Arobia!". Bozo turns aside to the camera, nods his head, and says 'Now I KNOW what I always SUSPECTED." The adults about died laughing and the kids, well most of them had no clue. But that's what made it great, they gave a good time to everyone who was watching - not just the kids. My brother and I worked in a family business into our 20's and if we could be home in time to watch Bozo, we did. Being sick at home when you were a kid in the Chicago area was not such a bad thing - you knew you'd get to watch Bozo's Circus!
@danalong12377 жыл бұрын
Another part about Bozo's Circus/The Bozo Show was the GRAND... PRIZE... GAME and the three musical directors: Bob Trendler (1961-75), Trendler's trumpeter Tommy Fitzsimmons (1975-87) and Andy Mitran (1987-2001)!
@Jimmersaunt3 жыл бұрын
I think the “drunk act” was to entertain the adults too.
@townhall054462 ай бұрын
@@danalong1237 My kindergarten class went to WGN to be in the audience on the Bozo show in early 1962. I remember being there but I couldn't understand why I didn't remember seeing the Grand Prize Game played; it turns out they didn't have it for the first six months or so that the show was on.
@WhoFlungPoo2024 Жыл бұрын
Some of the best and most-well produced LIVE television in broadcasting history. It has and will never be replaced. Pure joy in every single show.
@markclark71787 жыл бұрын
I remmeber when bob bell retired . I said he will never be replaced . But Joey d'auria was very good
@danalong12377 жыл бұрын
And I remember when Thomas Fitzsimmons, Donald Orlando and Donald Hammernick all retired three years after Bob Bell; how sad it was! BTW, Fitzsimmons, Bob Trendler and "Professor" Andy Mitran will always be the music behind Bozo's Circus to us!
@magoo97676 жыл бұрын
Mr Bell will always be Bozo for me....God Bless.
@kae44667 жыл бұрын
when comercial tv stations dropped local programing , we lost something
@townhall054469 жыл бұрын
Bob Bell was Bozo for so long that even after his successor Joey D'Aurio had been Bozo for a dozen years, people still called him 'the new Bozo'. He had an impossible job to fill Bell's Bozo shoes. Nobody could have done it but he did try hard.
@davelongenecker6493 жыл бұрын
I guess you're saying that Joey D'Aurio had big shoes to fill?
@townhall054462 ай бұрын
@@davelongenecker649 I see what you did there.
@handgunner19118 жыл бұрын
bob bell,the one and only bozo! simply the best.the best memories as a child.what a piece of chicago and wgn history.they dont come any better than bob bell.thanks for the memories!!!!
@jamescarter31964 жыл бұрын
There were dozens of actors playing Bozo you never got to see. Glad you liked Bob. Others were great too.
@bjbell526 жыл бұрын
One of my earliest memories was when Ned Locke wished my a happy birthday on the air. I had just turned 5 years old. Even as an adult I loved the Bozo show. Their adlibs cracked me up. I remember one bit where a mute was suppose to be stuck in Cookie's trumpet. Midway through the bit, it fell out on to the floor. Bozo looked at Cookie and said something the to effect "You're on your own" and walked off. It was funny seeing Cookie try to adlib through it all.
@46878789 жыл бұрын
Chicago kids tv was and still is the BEST !!!!! Loved wgn for kids !!
@user-cq5bx7tg3l3 ай бұрын
He had a great sense of humor. Adults loved him. We loved him and all the folks at WGN, the greatest station in the 60s
@markclark71787 жыл бұрын
A legend in chicago . Bob bell
@danalong12377 жыл бұрын
Other legends of Chicago: *Bell's (and Joey D'Auria's) other Bozo's Circus castmates *CM Punk *The Road Warriors *Harry Caray *Jack Brickhouse *Michael Jordan *Tom Skilling The list goes on and on and on!
@janesandrahernandez50816 жыл бұрын
Is he still alive
@I_WANT_MY_SLAW5 ай бұрын
40 years have gone so fast. We miss you Bob Bell. RIP
@lorenzofletcher38439 жыл бұрын
Bob bell will forever be remembered i was one of them chicago kids watching bozo. They'll never have intelligent kid shows like this everything now jus has subliminal messaging behind it
@parkman359 жыл бұрын
Bozo of course was Bob Bell's signature work, but I also remember him as Andy Starr the caretaker of the Odeon Theater that showed Three Stooges movies every afternoon in the mid 60s so he put in long days at WGN when you think about it there was no simple 8 hour day for this Man....A true icon in Chicago TV history for sure..
@wolfiestanzi9 жыл бұрын
parkman35 Oh, boy, thanks for this comment! I was one of the kids who watched the Stooges on Channel 9 from 3 -4 pm, every single day right after school! I remember Bob Bell was made up as an old man who was the caretaker of a theater, and introduced the Stooges shorts. Do you remember the Andy Clyde shorts? Didn't he call the Stooges the "Stupids"? I also remember how he would warn us kids not to do the violent stuff the Stooges did - he made it very clear they were acting and not really hurting each other. I had friends whose parents wouldn't allow them to watch the Three Stooges because they thought they were too violent ((!) Imagine if they saw today's stuff!) And right after the Stooges came Garfield Goose. Ah, childhood. Such memories.
@ThePHILALLENSHOW9 жыл бұрын
Stella Kowalski great TV all i had was a black and white console zenith TV to watch These shows you commented above
@c.rutherford Жыл бұрын
"You're everything [in life]. But eventually you sort it all out....and somehow or other you wind up doing what you do best." What a wonderful line
@jimmyb15593 жыл бұрын
I remember it came on at 12:00 during the week so we couldn’t watch it so much during the school year. But it was nice to watch in the summer. And I couldn’t wait for the grand prize game at 12:20. Great memories.
@ul71853 жыл бұрын
Bozo, Gar & Ray: WGN TV Classics Only
@joshuadaniels97496 жыл бұрын
I was there in 1969 when Bozo was gone for Brain Surgery... I was 8 and grew up in Lincoln Park area Fullerton and Racine until De Paul University bought the building on the block where the main dorm was built. I have Pics from my porch of them tearing down the Big Red Building that was there prior. The show looks bigger on TV than being there and not the same without Bozo there when I went... I went to Oscar Meyer School and ran home for lunch 1/2 a block to eat and watch Bozo...
@hardlines45 жыл бұрын
Joshua Danials I’m trying to remember, I went to this show as well when Bob Bell was in the hospital but was not sure if it was for brain surgery, I remember it was a St. Patrick’s Day skit, I wonder if this was the same year????
@andybarrete6749 Жыл бұрын
I was on that show in 1987
@Jimmersaunt3 жыл бұрын
I was lucky enough to be able to go to Bozo’s Circus with my class-I still have my Bozo Button-and I got to shake Bozo’s hand!
@brianatkins81076 жыл бұрын
GREAT SHOW,HAD A CHANCE 2 GO 2 BOZO'S CIRCUS SHOW WITH SCHOOL CLASS.
@antoniod9 жыл бұрын
When Bob was "Andy Starr" and showed Columbia Andy Clyde shorts, many children thought Bell WAS Andy Clyde, who resembled "Starr"
@nicholasmardis98462 жыл бұрын
Bob Bell ,is the original Chicago Bozo.
@johnmiller83384 жыл бұрын
Good-luck bob-bell all of chicagoland will miss you but the legacy of bozo the clown continues.
@hardlines410 жыл бұрын
The best!!! Bob reminds me of Peter Sellers
@alxjetson81572 ай бұрын
i miss that guy. The world got too serious since.
@bencool82397 жыл бұрын
Dude..we had wgn in atlanta bk in the 80s...i remember bell as bozo too....crazy i saw this..haha..
@trumpstroll74385 жыл бұрын
Any Cookie fans?
@1967razorback9 жыл бұрын
Gary Weir was our Bozo.
@johnsjohnson4482 жыл бұрын
Sound?
@coshannon6 жыл бұрын
My favorite is when bob plays with his jowls during his interview.
@Votedjt2024 Жыл бұрын
Bozo bob bell is best
@joewelnack32836 жыл бұрын
Wasn't Joey D'Auria the "Bozo" in Chicago?? I have often wondered if Bozo was a "franchise" of sorts because in Detroit where I am from we had a local weather caster who did Bozo in Detroit.
@stanwbaker5 жыл бұрын
Bozo was a character created for children's records that eventually was brought to television. From 1956 Bozo was a franchise offered to television stations, each station creating its own production. WGN's production was the largest, as it was broadcast nationally for many years, and the very last. Joey D'auria assumed the role after Mr. Bell's retirement until the last show in 2001.
@johnmiller83384 жыл бұрын
the bozo-show weekday-mornings from 9:00 am to 10:00 am on cfcf-tv channel-12 (ind) scranton millerville hazleton williamsport circa april-1968.
@willows-bl3kk4 ай бұрын
A time of children being allowed to be children in innocence, NOW it's video games about destroying things, violence, conquering others,
@gangstawalker83559 ай бұрын
For all the entertaining, and laughs some fools have destroyed the humble clowns image.
@Jeffbrotherton4 ай бұрын
When Bob is Bozo he talks like rough talking hippie
@Rmusic829 жыл бұрын
I have a question I noticed they say he was in Chicago..but I seen a video on here of BOZO THE CLOWN.. which was a gravesite here where I'm at in the SANFRANCISCO BAY AREA.. I think its in a cemetery called colma over here.. does anyone know if its bob bells grave.. or another BOZO the clown actor
@Wagriffith9 жыл бұрын
+Rmusic 82 Bob Bell was cremated and his ashes were scattered at sea.
@charleskeefer90302 жыл бұрын
A. Snow is the yummy no ke poles.
@randallkoch61834 жыл бұрын
George Costanzo was right, Bozo was THE clown.
@kellie773816 жыл бұрын
The lady said there was only one man behind the makeup and that simply is not true. There were several men who played Bozo the clown including Willard Scott.
@keithbannister92715 жыл бұрын
She said, "for 23 years, there was only one man, behind the makeup as Bozo the Clown, until he retired......
@keithbannister92715 жыл бұрын
Plus, she was referring to Chicago television
@johnmiller83384 жыл бұрын
the bozo-show weekday-mornings from 9:00 am to 10:00 am on cfcf-tv channel-12 (ind) scranton millerville hazleton williamsport circa april-1968.