I loved Bozo. I was born in 1969, and watched when I was home sick in college through to 1992. I'm a true Bozo kid, and I'm 55 today. I'd still be watching it, if it were still on the air.
I spend 6 horrible months in a Chicago suburb back in 1991, but I used to watch this. It was one of the few good things I remember experiencing there. I used to imagine myself playing that game. That Thanksgiving, we fled to a Dallas suburb, and to my surprise, they had a Bozo the Clown bucket game at the local Chuck E Cheese. I could live out that dream. Good times.
For those of us that grew up in Chicago, this was an everyday part of our childhood. Bozo and cookie was the first thing we saw on TV every morning before school
I grew up in Chicago. No longer live there. In the second grade our class went to Bozo circus. I remember sooo hoping to get picked for grand prize game. I didn’t. lol. Was a childhood memory. I’ll never forget. 😊
Wow! We would watch the Grand Prize Game right before 8th grade started on one of those TV's on a cart in our classroom before the bell rang. Then we would go back to being awkward teenagers. This brought back a lot of nostalgia.
This was so great to see. I grew up in Orlando & would watch it any morning i was home. I even got to attend a taping in 93/94 at EPCOT in Walt Disney World when I was in the 5th grade. Usually the cast was excited to be in sunny Florida, however we got a cold front that week so we were all bundled up since the show was outside. Great memory though
Even though i prefer Bob Bell's Bozo, i really enjoyed D'Auria's portrayal as Bozo... and i really love how he still does the voice of it after he leaves the clown makeup permanently behind. I really wish there's more episodes that has him as Bozo, and i don't understand why the higher-ups and its associates wanted to avoid that to get it uploaded to UA-cam... there should be an official channel or an on demand service that includes the remaining episodes of WGN's Bozo (both of Bob Bell and Joey D'Auria) with bonus features to go along that as well.
They did allow and approve FuzzyMemories to post the remaining episodes with Bob Bell as Bozo however, which they and WGN posted the same exact episodes to UA-cam at the same time.
Watched Joey as Bozo myself growing up in Houston, TX. Imagine if WGN never went superstation, then the entire nation wouldn't even know about Chicago's Bozo.
When I was a kid we lived just outside Chicago in Glen Ellyn, and BOZO (Bob Bell) was a daily staple for me! I was even lucky enough to get to go to the show live with one of my friends birthday parties, and he got chosen for the “Grand Prize Game” (ball in the bucket) That was THE greatest time and place to be a kid!
I live in Texas and would watch the Bozo show all the time. My brother and I made our own grand prize game in which we used plastic cups instead of buckets. Great memories.
I remember watching the Bozo Super Sunday Show back in the early 90s. WGN, please re-air some of the old eps with Joey. Many people out there want to revisit their childhoods again!
Joey was "Bozo" for my childhood. Watched the show many mornings on the Superstation, especially during Summer vacation. The Grand Prize Game was my favorite part to watch. Thanks for bringing back those memories
Being from Dallas, Texas, we watched Bozo on cable! Unfortunately, our Icky Twerp ended his show at least 20 years before I was old enough to understand television. As a result, we watched Bozo the Clown every day before school.
My friend got to play the Grand Prize Game and I envied her so much. I can't remember how far she got, but she won a cool pair of skates. This show is part of my childhood, although moreso with Bob Bell.
He didn't give the contestant the rules "throw a ping pong ball into each one of the buckets all the way up the number six and you'll win a brand new crisp $100 bill"
We got access to WGN in 80 or 81. I had aged out of entertainment like this by then but still watched because of the novelty of a live action television show.
On the west coast and saw it on the superstation. Had to wake up at like 4-5am to watch this and it was worth it. It's been hard to find these clips from this era. The early-mid 80's shows. Hearing his voice brought me right back. When he started the game, I teared up.
I have to say that I was lucky enough to be one of the at home players and the day the show aired happened to be my 6th Birthday and the player won all of the prizes including the Schwinn Bike and the $50.
Man that just brought back so many memories... just hearing that guy's voice again was amazing. I watched that show every week and imagined what it would be like to play the grand prize game. Nowadays if the kids played it and won a bike, they wouldn't know what to do with it... they would ask "How do you turn it on and does it have WiFi?"
Being born the year he got the job he was my bozo the clown cause I watched the show as a little boy cause then the Chicago wgn was broadcast in my area of North Carolina and every Sunday morning before church i would watch the show
I watched this ahow on and off from 1987-1990 until we moved and didn't get WGN again until long after Joey retired. He was also my very first email! I got a response, but unfortunately it's long gone now. :( Joey's still got it!!
One of my favorite stories involving Joey D'Auria was the first time he actually met Bob Bell. It was during the taping of the early shows that had Joey playing Bozo. Bob Bell was in town for some event and he was hanging out backstage with some of the crewmembers at WGN. During one of the breaks, Bell approached Joey and went, "How's it going Boze?" Joey, having no idea who he was asked Roy Brown, who was portraying Cooky, "Who's the old geezer?" Roy responded, "THAT'S BOB BELL!" Now I've heard different interpretations as to what Bell actually said in response to hearing the question, but it went something along the lines of, "This guy doesn't even know who I am!" I'm sure Joey was embarrassed not knowing the great Bob Bell and most likely apologized. Obviously, Bell didn't hold it against him because later on the two would do a duet together towards the end of the special: "Bozo's 25th Anniversary."
That's my Bozo! I loved him so much. My parents had their Bozo, but this was mine. I think we loved Bozo the same, no matter what years we watched him.
I adored Bozo as a kid growing up in Kentucky watching WGN Superstation. Never understood how anyone could be afraid of clowns when someone as fun as Bozo was around.
Im 43 from ohio and i watched him everyday with my grandma after school. Bozo and the show PINWHEEL with coco on nickelodeon. I miss my grandma so much. BOZO AND ARCHWAY COOKIES!!!
well this was a blast back to my childhood loved watching BOZO the clown never knew his actual name either til now watched him in ga during the week and weekends before the cartoons would come on early in the mornings with a bowl of cereal.
are all the 'attendees' checking in here? i got to go under my neighbors name, she had been on the waiting list for something like 9 years and refused to go at 15!! she gave me her ticket and my mom took me!! i was only 6....pushing 70 now! we had so much fun! from Palatine IL.
I see Bozo content on WGN I like the video. It is simple. I will always remember watching Bozo as a kid on channel 9 before heading out to Darwin. I loved being an 80's little dude in Chicago. Always fond memories
I miss The Bozo Show An The Bozo Super Sunday Show. Wish they could show all the seasons an episodes with Joey D' Auria from 1984 to 2001 when the show ended.
I grew up on his bozo and was so sad when it stopped even though I was in college at the time, would love to see him back even if it was a few specials
I was in the audience! Our school went there for a field trip - I even got on camera on the kids march out of the studio but I made a goofy face and I'm embarrassed to this day. This would have been 1988/1989 I believe.
The Bozo Show was an absolute Chicago STAPLE for decades, I'm still shocked they stopped the show in 2001. The program was popular NATIONWIDE because of CABLE TV, which broadcast WGN as a Superstation. Everyone at my grade school in Kentucky watched!
Late 80s and early 90s on the family channel on saturday mornings Bozo the Clown came before the super mario bros super show. Thanks for the childhood mornings!
One of my favorite childhood shows! Thanks for the memories!
Yea I work with a bunch of those people.
I got his autograph when I was 3 back in the 80s ... Thank you sir
"You're a clown, and you never heard of BOZO! He's BOZO! He's THE clown!!" -George Costanza 😂🤡
Your hung up on some clown from the 60s man!!
How about Willy Whistle?
I loved Bozo. I was born in 1969, and watched when I was home sick in college through to 1992. I'm a true Bozo kid, and I'm 55 today. I'd still be watching it, if it were still on the air.
I spend 6 horrible months in a Chicago suburb back in 1991, but I used to watch this. It was one of the few good things I remember experiencing there. I used to imagine myself playing that game. That Thanksgiving, we fled to a Dallas suburb, and to my surprise, they had a Bozo the Clown bucket game at the local Chuck E Cheese. I could live out that dream. Good times.
For those of us that grew up in Chicago, this was an everyday part of our childhood. Bozo and cookie was the first thing we saw on TV every morning before school
George, for us it came on after school and when i say it was a mad dash to get home I mean it was a MAD DASH to get home to watch the show!
I grew up in Champaign IL and I always watched bozo the clown after school
Oh I remember. I grew up in the Chicago area
I grew up in the Chicago area and bozo was a part of my childhood
People to living in Illinois and had cable grew up with him as well, such as myself.
Watched this ALL THE TIME in the 80s from TEXAS! So awesome to see he's STILL doing well! Good Times
Me too.
This is the Bozo I grew up watching on superstation WGN as a kid. The Grand Prize Game is the best part. Watched Bozo on sick days and sick days.
Was that the one with the crispy, nice, new, fresh, (snap snap) $50.00 bill?
@gawainethefirst yep, then it got replaced by a $100 bill in 1989
Joey was the Bozo I grew up with. And he still sounds the same after all these years
Oh yes. He’s still got that Bozo voice.
I saw bozo live in 1974 at WGN Studios. My 3rd grade class went. It was awesome. It was my 2nd day at Bateman Elementary.
I grew up in Chicago. No longer live there. In the second grade our class went to Bozo circus. I remember sooo hoping to get picked for grand prize game. I didn’t. lol. Was a childhood memory. I’ll never forget. 😊
Wow! We would watch the Grand Prize Game right before 8th grade started on one of those TV's on a cart in our classroom before the bell rang. Then we would go back to being awkward teenagers. This brought back a lot of nostalgia.
This was so great to see. I grew up in Orlando & would watch it any morning i was home. I even got to attend a taping in 93/94 at EPCOT in Walt Disney World when I was in the 5th grade. Usually the cast was excited to be in sunny Florida, however we got a cold front that week so we were all bundled up since the show was outside. Great memory though
Even though i prefer Bob Bell's Bozo, i really enjoyed D'Auria's portrayal as Bozo... and i really love how he still does the voice of it after he leaves the clown makeup permanently behind.
I really wish there's more episodes that has him as Bozo, and i don't understand why the higher-ups and its associates wanted to avoid that to get it uploaded to UA-cam... there should be an official channel or an on demand service that includes the remaining episodes of WGN's Bozo (both of Bob Bell and Joey D'Auria) with bonus features to go along that as well.
That’s a great idea, shows like bozo is needed
WGN has the Joey eps in their archives, but like you said they just won't air them. They should upload some of them here on UA-cam.
Bob Bell was the man.
@christiangonzales7429 it's corporate ownership; If they can't profit from it to impossible degrees, then no one can see it
They did allow and approve FuzzyMemories to post the remaining episodes with Bob Bell as Bozo however, which they and WGN posted the same exact episodes to UA-cam at the same time.
Here in SE WI, I watched Bozo all the time. Joey was the Bozo I remember. This show needs to be brought back, kids need Bozo!
Watched Joey as Bozo myself growing up in Houston, TX. Imagine if WGN never went superstation, then the entire nation wouldn't even know about Chicago's Bozo.
My cousin was lucky enough to be on the show back in the early 80s and from what I can recall tickets were like years out in order to get them
When I was a kid we lived just outside Chicago in Glen Ellyn, and BOZO (Bob Bell) was a daily staple for me! I was even lucky enough to get to go to the show live with one of my friends birthday parties, and he got chosen for the “Grand Prize Game” (ball in the bucket)
That was THE greatest time and place to be a kid!
I live in Texas and would watch the Bozo show all the time. My brother and I made our own grand prize game in which we used plastic cups instead of buckets. Great memories.
Joey D'Auria is brilliant as Bozo The Clown. 😀👍🤡
After Bell retired/quit, nobody thought a suitable replacement would be found.
This guy never missed a beat, and you could argue was better.
I remember watching the Bozo Super Sunday Show back in the early 90s. WGN, please re-air some of the old eps with Joey. Many people out there want to revisit their childhoods again!
“It’s my show I’ll do what i want!” 😂😂😂😂
Joey was "Bozo" for my childhood. Watched the show many mornings on the Superstation, especially during Summer vacation. The Grand Prize Game was my favorite part to watch. Thanks for bringing back those memories
My class was invited to the show and they asked me to participate to toss the bag in the bucket, was memorable at early age
I wasn't too sure if this was the Bozo I watched until I heard the voice. Then I knew it was him!
Being from Dallas, Texas, we watched Bozo on cable! Unfortunately, our Icky Twerp ended his show at least 20 years before I was old enough to understand television. As a result, we watched Bozo the Clown every day before school.
I enjoy Joey D’auria, both on camera and behind the microphone 🎙️
I was on the Bozo Show back in 1993. Me, my brother, my mom, and a couple of my cousins. That was a fun time.
I remember watching this everyday at my Grandma's. Some of my favorite memories.
The moment he spoke, my inner child leapt for joy. 😊💜
My friend got to play the Grand Prize Game and I envied her so much. I can't remember how far she got, but she won a cool pair of skates. This show is part of my childhood, although moreso with Bob Bell.
Wow! I thought Bozo was a regional show - maybe it was?? - but BOZO was my JAMMMM!
Thanks for the childhood memories, Joey!!
Each region had its own actor for Bozo.
@@melissagerber7231 I had no idea - thanks! 🙂
He didn't give the contestant the rules "throw a ping pong ball into each one of the buckets all the way up the number six and you'll win a brand new crisp $100 bill"
I remember when it used to be a $50 bill
We got access to WGN in 80 or 81. I had aged out of entertainment like this by then but still watched because of the novelty of a live action television show.
Ill never forget the last episode in 2001. Billy corgan played. Its lost media.
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I grew up watching this show in the 80s really early in the morning in California. One of the few fond memories I have of my childhood. Thank you.❤
On the west coast and saw it on the superstation. Had to wake up at like 4-5am to watch this and it was worth it. It's been hard to find these clips from this era. The early-mid 80's shows. Hearing his voice brought me right back. When he started the game, I teared up.
As a Texas kid it was always a DREAM to play the grandprize game
His voice is so distinct! Instantly recognizable as The Bozo of my childhood ❤️
I have to say that I was lucky enough to be one of the at home players and the day the show aired happened to be my 6th Birthday and the player won all of the prizes including the Schwinn Bike and the $50.
Awesome!
Man that just brought back so many memories... just hearing that guy's voice again was amazing. I watched that show every week and imagined what it would be like to play the grand prize game. Nowadays if the kids played it and won a bike, they wouldn't know what to do with it... they would ask "How do you turn it on and does it have WiFi?"
WGN. You need to find Whitney today and bring her on the show. It would be great to show how she looks today
Grew up in Dallas in the 80's and Bozo was a staple of our childhoods out here. Thank you cable tv.
Oh w😮w..bozo!!❤
I used to love bozo da clown! rumper room,da banana splits....
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I watched Bozo in my preschool days in Pennsylvania. Great memories!
I can't believe Whisper from Yo-Kai Watch is real.
Time to bring these shows back on the Air. Tone Down News Time.....
I loved watching Bozo back in the early 80’s
Being born the year he got the job he was my bozo the clown cause I watched the show as a little boy cause then the Chicago wgn was broadcast in my area of North Carolina and every Sunday morning before church i would watch the show
Much respect to Joey!💗
I watched this ahow on and off from 1987-1990 until we moved and didn't get WGN again until long after Joey retired. He was also my very first email! I got a response, but unfortunately it's long gone now. :( Joey's still got it!!
Teaching kids beer pong for generations
We had WGN on our cable system in northern NY. I loved hearing Joey's voice. That was the Bozo I remember. Glad he is doing good and looks great.
One of my favorite stories involving Joey D'Auria was the first time he actually met Bob Bell. It was during the taping of the early shows that had Joey playing Bozo. Bob Bell was in town for some event and he was hanging out backstage with some of the crewmembers at WGN. During one of the breaks, Bell approached Joey and went, "How's it going Boze?" Joey, having no idea who he was asked Roy Brown, who was portraying Cooky, "Who's the old geezer?" Roy responded, "THAT'S BOB BELL!" Now I've heard different interpretations as to what Bell actually said in response to hearing the question, but it went something along the lines of, "This guy doesn't even know who I am!" I'm sure Joey was embarrassed not knowing the great Bob Bell and most likely apologized. Obviously, Bell didn't hold it against him because later on the two would do a duet together towards the end of the special: "Bozo's 25th Anniversary."
Pretty cool they were able to dig up the actual bucket board!
I sure do miss good clean normal fun like Bozo, Cookie, Wizzo, Ray Rayner, Mr. Ned , and Frasier Thomas 💔💔
I only watched the Bob Bell Bozo. Never got into Joey's character. But he seems like a nice guy. Wish him well.
He was so young when I first saw him. I grew up with the first Bozo the clown. I appeared on the show twice.
I grew up watching Bozo and I turned 5 in 1984 so this guy was a big part of my childhood.
One of my favorite shows in the 80s all the way in central Texas.
I wish there was a "Bozo's Circus: The 1980's" special.
Now I understand Boppo the clown from Rugrats
That's my Bozo! I loved him so much. My parents had their Bozo, but this was mine. I think we loved Bozo the same, no matter what years we watched him.
Glad to see he's still going strong. So many memories....
I adored Bozo as a kid growing up in Kentucky watching WGN Superstation. Never understood how anyone could be afraid of clowns when someone as fun as Bozo was around.
Hey Bozo,i just turned 50,its good to see you again,thanks for helping me get ready for school and life
Im 43 from ohio and i watched him everyday with my grandma after school. Bozo and the show PINWHEEL with coco on nickelodeon. I miss my grandma so much. BOZO AND ARCHWAY COOKIES!!!
i smiled through this whole segment 😄
The Bozo super Sunday show was the jam. 🤡
I want to see some episodes of the Super Sunday Show. That was the Bozo show I grew up with.
Bozo Sunday Super Show! Give that man a top hat! 🎩
We watched this in Grants, New Mexico with GI Joe and the Transformers directly after. We had to be up at like 5:00am but it was worth it.
well this was a blast back to my childhood loved watching BOZO the clown never knew his actual name either til now watched him in ga during the week and weekends before the cartoons would come on early in the mornings with a bowl of cereal.
are all the 'attendees' checking in here? i got to go under my neighbors name, she had been on the waiting list for something like 9 years and refused to go at 15!! she gave me her ticket and my mom took me!! i was only 6....pushing 70 now! we had so much fun! from Palatine IL.
to me, Joey D'Auria wil always be Bozo, I grew up on him in the late 80s ad 90s, as I was a late 80s/90s kid.
This was one of my favorite shows as a kid, WGN News should’ve let Joey wore the costume again
I loved 🎉this one ❤
I see Bozo content on WGN I like the video. It is simple. I will always remember watching Bozo as a kid on channel 9 before heading out to Darwin. I loved being an 80's little dude in Chicago. Always fond memories
I used to watch him on tv when i was little and visiting my grandma.
I miss The Bozo Show An The Bozo Super Sunday Show. Wish they could show all the seasons an episodes with Joey D' Auria from 1984 to 2001 when the show ended.
Joey was the only Bozo I saw growing up because I was born in 91, and his energy kind of reminds me of Robin Williams.
I miss the WGN super station feed I remember this guy playing Bozo
Bozo the Clown man a Legend my Childhood ❤❤
So crazy. I lived in S C and watched everyday. My childhood t.v. shows were cool.
So fun! I grew up watching bozo in Orlando in the 90s
I grew up on his bozo and was so sad when it stopped even though I was in college at the time, would love to see him back even if it was a few specials
The late members of Boz's Circus would be so pleased.
I was in the audience! Our school went there for a field trip - I even got on camera on the kids march out of the studio but I made a goofy face and I'm embarrassed to this day. This would have been 1988/1989 I believe.
That Young Lady Rocks!😁
I'm amazed they still had the original Grand Prize Game prop.
I live in Knoxville tn. Me and my brother watched it all the time.
I grew up watching Bozo in Detroit thanks to my local cable system
He was my bozo growing up loved him! ❤
The Bozo Show was an absolute Chicago STAPLE for decades, I'm still shocked they stopped the show in 2001. The program was popular NATIONWIDE because of CABLE TV, which broadcast WGN as a Superstation. Everyone at my grade school in Kentucky watched!
The one and only Bozo❤
Too funny having the news cast play
Late 80s and early 90s on the family channel on saturday mornings Bozo the Clown came before the super mario bros super show. Thanks for the childhood mornings!
I Loved Bozo when I was a kid.
My God, he's turned into Paul F. Tompkins Sr.