Does anyone else remember this TV personality?

Keesha said:
Yeah! You can’t tone that one down any.
CREEPY with capital letters.
He makes the friendly giant look.....
Ummmm... friendly?🤡
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But they both did that for THIRTY YEARS!!!!

Can you imagine??? They start out thinking "This should carry me until I get my real estate license," and next thing you know they've been talking to 5 year old kids for 3 decades!!!🧸 🧸 🧸

Yeh, I'd look creepy, too.
 
Bonnie said:
Em ... not a fan of clowns in general, but I did like Clarabell on Howdy Dowdy when I was a kid.
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I loved Clarabell and I even got to meet him when I was a kid. He was at the opening of a shoe store near where I lived and my friends Dad worked at the store and took me and his daughter to see him. I still remember how nice he was to everyone there.
 
win231 said:
It's funny how we've been using the term "Bozo" as an insult or to say someone doesn't know what they're doing. "I'll never do business with that Bozo again."
Wasn't there also a clown named "Chucko?"
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Chucko might have been a Calif clown only? His show had 2 kids celebrating their birthdays with their friends as the audience. I was on his show for my 5th birthday. All I remember is the pile of presents at my home after the show. I so wish there was a way to see that episode.
 
In The Sticks said:
It wasn't Willard Scott?

He was Bozo and the weather guy in the Northern Virginia market when I was a kid.
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In a post further back, the Bozo history was posted, and the role was played by various different people during different times/places.

Do you mean THIS Willard Scott?: https://marriedwiki.com/wiki/willard-scott
Sure I know who he is, though, he was on the Today Show, etc.
 
Thanks for the clues - I think it strange that my brain connected the two characters (I'm weird that way!) so, I Googled and found this:

Willard Scott

The origin of Ronald McDonald involves Willard Scott (at the time, a local radio personality who also played Bozo the Clown on WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., from 1959 until 1962), who performed using the moniker "Ronald McDonald, the Hamburger-Happy Clown" in 1963 on three separate television spots.

The original idea behind the character of Ronald McDonald was to more or less capitalize on the popularity of the iconic Bozo the Clown, with initial efforts on this front simply advertising on that children's show in the Washington D.C. area.
 
Butterfly said:
All clowns have always creeped me out, even when I was a little kid. I have no real idea why, but they do.
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I made a stuffed clown for my daughter when she was a toddler. It evidently traumatized her for life, but I didn't know that until I bought her toddler son a clown mobile - She REFUSED to put it up! I was crushed /-;
 
win231 said:
Wasn't there also a clown named "Chucko?"
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Chucko.jpg
 
JaniceM said:
In a post further back, the Bozo history was posted, and the role was played by various different people during different times/places.

Do you mean THIS Willard Scott?: https://marriedwiki.com/wiki/willard-scott
Sure I know who he is, though, he was on the Today Show, etc.
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Yup. That's the guy.

-Weatherman
-Bozo
-Ronald McDonald

Heck of a resume.
 
In The Sticks said:
There's a reason Stephen King used a clown as the title character in one of his creepiest books.

I won't post a pic. Some of us like to get to sleep at night.
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I didn’t realize it was that common a fear and I no longer read Stephen King. Too scary for me.
 

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