Bozo the Clown

Bozo the Clown is a popular American clown figure. The origin of the word Bozo is dated to the period 1915-1920 ( Random House Dictionary of the English Language). Today's fictional character was built around 1946 as a children's book character. Invented by the character Alan Livingston, former president of Capitol Records. Important contributions for this came from Pinto Colvig - the first performer and the voice of Disney's Goofy. To publicize the Clown, many actors were hired, including Larry Harmon. He bought ( with partners ) Copyright 1956, when Capitol Records withdrew with children out of the business and became the epitome of the clown in America.

Bozo The Clown is used in many shows in North America. He is also regarded as the archetype of Ronald McDonald and Krusty the Clown.

Bozo as an adjective or verb

In the movie " The Marx Brothers at Sea" ( Monkey Business, 1931) there is the following dialogue:

Later we find the word in the vocabulary known comedians like Jerry Seinfeld: Bozo the Clown is superfluous - Are we going to confuse him with Bozo the District Attorney? Bozo the Pope? ( German: " Bozo the Clown is a tautology, or would anyone confuse him with Bozo the prosecutor Bozo the Pope? " )

In early versions of Apple's Mac OS was ( officially known as " no copy flag" designated ) file attribute implemented that prevented the file copy at least in the file manager. Popularly received this " copy protection " quickly nicknamed Bozo bit, which to this day is common for non- serious ideas or suggestions in the figurative sense.