It Has Come To This: O'Donnell Family Straightens Out Father's Bozo The Clown Career

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It Has Come To This: O'Donnell Family Straightens Out Father's Bozo The Clown Career

Eric Kleefeld



Christine O'Donnell's campaign is facing yet another set of questions about her background, and this time it's on a really weird line of discussion -- whether her father was Philadelphia's local Bozo the Clown. Seriously.

As the Mark Leibovich at the New York Times reports, the O'Donnell family's past claims that her father Daniel O'Donnell had worked as Bozo sparked an uprising of online commenters who insisted that no, Daniel O'Donnell was not listed on Wikipedia as having been one of the many regionally licensed Bozo the Clown TV hosts.

But now Leibovich has sorted things out -- Daniel O'Donnell was an occasional understudy Bozo, not a full-time holder of the Bozo mantle. From their phone conversation:

"Who told you I was Bozo?" he wanted to know.

"Your son," I said, at which point he confirmed that yes, he was Bozo, but not an official, full-time certified Bozo, more of a part-time Bozo.

"To be an official Bozo, you had to go to a special school in Texas," explained Mr. O'Donnell. He never did. Instead, he was asked to fill-in for the official Bozos whenever they would have to travel out of the Philadelphia area for acting gigs.

"They would leave, I would come in and work for two or three weeks, whatever, until the regular Bozo came back," Mr. O'Donnell said. "I was the fill-in Bozo."

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From the comments:

"Dad was a part-time Bozo, daughter is a full time bozo. Symmetry "


:rofl:

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O'Donnell In '07: Scientists Have Created Mice With Human Brains!

:rofl:

[Bozita]

1. Part-time Bozo begat full-time clown

That's a headline for ya!

[Kdillard]

2. Hilarious.

[saltpoint]

3. Recommended. Although I am a little concerned that

there is a special school in Texas whose enrollees strive to become Bozos the Clown.

[appleannie1]

4. Was Jr. Bush a graduate?

[saltpoint]

6. : )

[provis99]

9. Nope. His grades weren't high enough to get in.

[karynnj]

21. I wonder if that special school gets all the Big Apple Circus' rejects

[saltpoint]

23. : )

:hi:

[zulchzulu]

5. If you were a scriptwriter writing this, you'd be fired on the spot

It just can't get more odd.

[jmondine]

7. I think we're all Bozos on this bus.

[Major Hogwash]

30. That was one of my favorites!! Firesign Theater!!!

"Don't Crush that Dwarf, Hand me the Pliers" was another great comedy album!!!!

[AtomicKitten]

8. She's angling for the circus folk vote.

"One of us."

[Thav]

11. Small hands?

Smells of cabbage?

[AtomicKitten]

12. yeah, baby

---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlSKaDzbQN0

[The Wizard]

10. Christine O'Donnell

proof that scientists have produced humans with mouse brains.

[golfguru]

16. Her new Ad running on TV

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/10/christine-odonnell-ad-i-am-not-a-witch.html

[msanthrope]

13. Someone make this stop. Now. Please. n/t

[Aristus]

14. So her father didn't even get to go to Klown Kollege, huh?

The daughter is the child of the man...

[Politicalboi]

15. Maybe he should have tried Krusty's Clown School

[Control-Z]

17. Onion? n/t

[vaberella]

25. Nope this is real. Reality is far stranger than fiction. You can't make this shit up. n/t

[jberryhill]

18. That Bozo School Must Be In Oxford, Texas /nt

[itsrobert]

19. I see the family resemblance

n/t

[karynnj]

20. But, but per the MSNBC article, being Bozo was thge pinacle of his career

Finding that he was a part time fill in Bozo, means he was simply an actor willing to "play" Bozo at events. Like all the hired "Barney, the dinosaurs or sports mascots that are hired to amuse the kids at community events.

How did that allow him to afford a house in Moorestown, NJ for his family of eight - and send his little princess to a high cost, private college, where she spoke of having three senior years?

[Joe Bacon]

22. If only Bozo used a condom...

:rofl:

[cascadiance]

24. So is her father being bozo how she rationalizes why her sister is gay?

[vaberella]

26. Talk about skeletons in the closet. n/t

[COLGATE4]

27. Like father, like daughter. Both part time Bozos

[verges]

33. No

She is a full-time Bozo.

[Major Hogwash]

28. Wow, what a life's goal to meet. He really set the bar high, huh?

I wonder how many other kids are out there, hiding in shame, knowing their dads were Bozos.

LoL

I love it. He sounds really nice to me.

[jenmito]

29. Olbermann will be talking about this tonight! n/t

[theothersnippywshrub]

31. Backup Bozo Dad Drives Daughter into Life of Crime, Debauchery and Witchcraft.

It is always a tragedy when this happens.

[agentS]

32. Can this woman EVER stop lying?

"how can you tell if a politician is not lying? When their lips aren't moving!"
Teabagging scumbags like her deserve to lose elections.

[Hekate]

34. Dad didn't go to Clown College and Christine didn't go to Oxford. Next I'll bet ...

... that it'll turn out that she's not a descendent of Louis XIV, either.

That woman is so good at embroidering her life she should open a dress shop.

Hekate