In writing this post, I am very sad at the recent death of Bozo the Clown who died today of congestive heart failure.
Some of my fondest early childhood memories are of Bozo. I couldn't wait for him to come on TV. I loved Bozo. There are those who say that Ronald McDonald was a take off from Bozo the Clown. I remember when Ronald would visit at the local McDonald's. It was like going to a rock concert for children.
I will miss Bozo.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Larry Harmon, who turned the character Bozo the Clown into a show business staple that delighted children for more than a half-century, died Thursday of congestive heart failure. He was 83.
His publicist, Jerry Digney, told The Associated Press he died at his home.
Although not the original Bozo, Harmon portrayed the popular clown in countless appearances and, as an entrepreneur, he licensed the character to others, particularly dozens of television stations around the country. The stations in turn hired actors to be their local Bozos.
"You might say, in a way, I was cloning BTC (Bozo the Clown) before anybody else out there got around to cloning DNA," Harmon told the AP in a 1996 interview.
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