Billed as Ed Spinney, the Waltham MA
native was part of the Boston version
of Bozo’s Circus on what was then
WHDH-TV 5.Youtube video of a Bozo show
from ‘66 shows him in costume as Mr
Lion, taking a kid’s name and turning it into an animal drawing.When he spoke in the clip he sounded a bit like Big Bird.
RIP Big Bird.
I would say he rests in the bosom of Snuffleupagus, but that would be blasphemous, I guess.