By Sarah Smithon Wednesday, 23 Aug 2006 Former Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne has been named the UK's favourite figure of fun, the Sun reports.
The bumbling Brummie rocker shot to new levels of fame when MTV broadcast The Osbournes, a reality TV show that documented the everyday comings and goings of his eccentric family in Hollywood.
Ozzy himself stood out as the comical hero and now the Reader's Digest poll has put him ahead of Tory MP Boris Johnson as the nation's favourite clown.
The show "appears to have transformed him from a scary heavy metaller into everyone's favourite clown," according to the magazine.
Straw-haired Boris came in second partly because he rugby tackled an opponent during a charity football match.
Lisping dandy boxer Chris Eubank rounded out the top three, while Simon Cowell, George Galloway and John Prescott also made the top 20.
Prescott, the gaffe-prone deputy prime minister, has made countless newspaper headlines in recent weeks for all the wrong reasons.
Most recently he allegedly denounced US president George W Bush's handling of the latest Middle East crisis as "crap".
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