Has anyone asked (on the show or here) if the Avengers, et al exist in the Framework?

2016 keeps taking its toll.

While I didn't walk out, the Richard Gere-starring Dr. T and the Women.

Apologies if anyone else posted this already, but when Chicago hosted the World Cup in 1994, there were stories going of foreign tourists (mostly Germans, not surprisingly) asking around for the location of "Bundy Fountain." Buckingham Fountain, from the open.

I always keep in mind that a stand-up comic is doing material. He or she is not necessarily talking about real things that happened in their lives. Often, reviews like these seem to believe that the comic is basically going through therapy on stage. Sometimes that's the case, but I'm reminded of the cliched stand-up…

I posted elsewhere here that I had the opportunituy to meet and take part in interviewing Al Hall, one of the many Chicago Bozo producers. He insisted off the air that the Bozo No-No really did happen. Grains of salt.

My cousin Dave played the Grand Prize Game. We remember watching him resplendent in his Boy Scout uniform. He did not get to #6. I do not believe he won a Schwinn Fastback bike, a Polaroid camera, or lots of other prizes.

In Chicago, the 4:30 movie was the first place I ever saw Help, and I believe, Magical Mystery Tour.

My friends and I substituted Bozo-Puter for what other folks would refer to as their spank-banks.

And, clearly a reason most ball parks are filled with blue when the Cubs come to town. Even long before…I still have to pause before I type…they won the World Series. There I go, getting all verklempt.

Sincerely, thanks for the info. I did have the chance to revisit the Big Apple twice while I was out there. When my server Juanita asked me if it were my first time there, I told her no, but it had been about 30 years since. I'm pretty sure it looked exactly the same, which in my world, is really cool. I can't say the…

Sadly, out of stock. https://www.walmart.com/ip/…

Certainly, our original Bozo, Bob Bell, gave Dan C. Krusty's voice. That's for sure.

We took a family vacation to visit some ex-Chicagoans in the mid 70's. My sister and I caught about a week of Wallace & Ladmo while staying at the Desert Hills Motel by the airport. Our Phoenix friends were not as delighted by W & L as my sister and I had been. I went back to Phoenix a few years ago. That strip of…

Kermit Schafer's All Time Greatest Bloopers Volume One! "Look at that sonofabitch run!"

One of my co-workers was briefly enchanted by card magic. Last Christmas, I managed to find a sealed relatively recent reissue of his TV Magic Cards on the 'bay. Made for a nice holiday moment. Here's a look at the vintage commercial featuring Mr. Brodien:
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There's a lovely urban legend here in Chicago about Bozo's Circus. Supposedly, a kid missed one of the buckets in the Grand Prize Game, and swore on air. Bozo tells him that's a "Bozo No-No," and the kid tells Bozo something like "Cram it, clown." Allen Hall, who had been one of the producers of Bozo's Circus, was a…

Nah, Bob Bell never scared me. Maybe in person, I'll give you that, but certainly not on TV.

Mine was watching the game before going back to school after lunch. It used to be on from noon 'til one.

I am just old enough to have been around when gas stations used to sell record albums. I seem to remember reading that Dylan's Christmas album was in some ways a tribute to those long-forgotten records (that my dad used to buy a lot of). For that, I love it, with multiple plays throughout the holidays.