Tag: Clown
“Let’s Hear It For the Clown”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lets-Hear-it-for-Bozo-Music-Review.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/5/2005 “Let’s Hear It For the Clown” Transcript It’s International Clown Week, and, in the U.S., one of our most famous clowns is Bozo — with his electric shock of red hair, his seven-acre shoes, his baggy blue jumpsuit with its pom-pom and a […]
Goodbye to the Captain
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Goodbye-to-the-Gentle-Captain.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/12/2004 Goodbye to the Captain Transcript In the wake of Bob Keeshan’s death in late January, one can’t help but think about, and mourn the loss of another gentling presence in our children’s lives: Captain Kangaroo. When Keeshan launched his now-famous program in the […]
Clowning Around
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Clowns.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/5/2003 Clowning Around Transcript It’s International Clown Week, and that has us thinking about this ancient figure, who is the primal source of laughter. Our word for “clown” comes from the old Icelandic, klunni, which meant a clumsy person, and is related to other […]
Clowning Around
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Clowning-Around-International-Clown-Week.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 8/6/2002 Clowning Around Transcript The summer before fifth grade, my friend Billy Tutwiler and I decided we wanted to be rich. We felt we were smart enough to start our own business, so we opened Clowns and Associates. We didn’t know what the […]