Word: bozos
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...What I originally envisioned was doing a parody of "Bozo's Circus," which ran in the Midwest for years - still runs. It's really just, you know, I started combining puppets and live animals on the Conan show, most famously with Triumph the dog, and this is just an attempt to see how stupid that technique can get. It's an experiment. Right after "The Dana Carvey Show," I really had the idea to do something like this, and I got to do some of it on "Saturday Night Live," but I wanted to do more than 10 cartoons...
Name calling? This is the same Bush who helped persuade his father to label Michael Dukakis a "bozo" in 1988. Yet he acted hurt again last week after Gore, chatting on Air Force Two, said Bush should "put up or shut up" on prescription-drug benefits. Bush ignored the substance of the remark, saying, "That doesn't sound very presidential to me." His communications director added that anyone who would make a "playground challenge" with "that kind of bitterness" shouldn't be President...
KATHIE LEE I've always prided myself on being able to work with anybody. The times that Gelman and I had tension were when I've wanted somebody on the show and he's not wanted them on. I should have the right to say, "I want Bozo the Clown...
...class, so that is where I must buy my ticket. But coach class makes me miserable because I am folded up like a lawn chair and stuck in a seat I couldn't fit in when I was 12 and with no real place to move, especially after the bozo in front of me reclines his seat those precious three inches. He may not think much of taking those three inches, but it means a whole helluva lot to me. If this were a utilitarian calculation, my discomfort would be to his comfort as Harvard's endowment...