We had a Bozo franchise here in Brazil, for some creepy reason I still don't understand. He had a TV show from 1983 I guess, to 1990. Bozo was playd by 3 different persons. One of them became a midly sucessful TV show host, the other became a preacher, one of those who yell out "praise the lord" after being a drug junkie, and another one died of cancer I belive. The Bozo show was broadcast live, and Bozo would get kids calls and play games with them. Sometimes we could hear a kid yelling out "f&&k you" for Bozo. Sometimes he pretended not to hear it, one time he said "oh you made Bozo sad", and once he cursed back in a sadly untranslatable but hilarious way. I remember watching the show, and one of the kids in the audience got the microphone and kept saying that this other clown (who was supposed to be a "old-woman" clown, but was in fact a man) was really a man, and that Bozo wasnt fooling anyone. It was a truly bizarre show, with kids "betting" on horses over the phone so they would win toys, or games or whatever, and Bozo would show 70s japanese live action series, such as Spectreman. I belive I still own a 1987 Bozo LP record, it should be worth... 5 cents today.