FX clown comedy Baskets, from Zach Galifianakis and Louis CK, finds empathy in unlikely places by Caroline Framke Jan 21, 2016, 5:40 AM PST ...

We asked Ambrose Martos, a celebrated clown who has performed with Cirque du Soleil and in hospitals for the Big Apple Circus, to review the Zach Galifianakis-starring Baskets. Here, he looks at ...

Zach Galifianakis is Chip Baskets, struggling to make it as a clown amid a dispiriting number of life setbacks.

Baskets becomes a rodeo clown, getting laughed at as he's chased and knocked around by bulls. Outside the dusty ring, he's overshadowed by his shrill, modestly successful twin brother Dale ...

Pierrot is the quintessential sad clown, one who loves Columbine from afar even as Columbine loves Harlequin. But Pierrots are also movingly naïve, something Baskets is laughably inept at.

The comic, who plays a rodeo clown in his new FX comedy series, says he is "not creeped out by clowns." Galifianakis is also the creator of the Emmy Award-winning web comedy series Between Two Ferns.

“Baskets” combines the dry, deadpan tone of a certain strain of boundary-pushing TV comedy with the more familiar contours of many sad-clown tales. Though the influence of auteur-driven fare ...

“Baskets” combines the dry, deadpan tone of a certain strain of boundary-pushing TV comedy with the more familiar contours of many sad-clown tales. Though the influence of auteur-driven fare ...

TV columnist Nancy deWolf Smith reviews the FX comedy “Baskets,” calling it a weird and wonderful story of a mean and selfish wannabe clown who is transformed by the affection of others.

Funnyman Zach Galifianakis, who made his name with “The Hangover” movies and the web series “Between Two Ferns,” plays an embittered clown in the new FX series “Baskets.” ...

Baskets, which stars Zach Galifianakis as a struggling aspiring clown, might be the weirdest new TV show to broadcast in the last year—a year, we might add, that was marked by 409 scripted shows ...

The episodic descriptions for “Baskets” are as quirky as FX’s low-key comedy series. “Christine tries a Denver omelette in Denver,” read an episode description from last season. And ...