Can a rodeo clown have an epiphany? That’s the question it feels like “Baskets” is proposing in its fourth outing. Professional clown Chip Baskets (Zach Galifianakis) has just finished a successful ...

Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, for the third season of “Baskets,” which feels even more sure-footed in its playful pathos than ever before. For its first act, the Baskets family empire will put ...

In the darkest moments of crisis, it’s only natural for people to wistfully remember moments from their past for comfort or reassurance, even if those memories aren’t that great to begin with. For ...

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 there’s this from ...

So this is a scene from "Baskets." And your character, Chip Baskets the Clown, can't pay the rent at the cheap motel he's been living in. And he and his insurance agent and kind of maybe friend Martha ...

Emily St. James was a senior correspondent for Vox, covering American identities. Before she joined Vox in 2014, she was the first TV editor of the A.V. Club. Baskets — a sweet and sad comedy about a ...

Clowns are sort of the It thing at the moment, and FX is prepping for the return of its face-painted comedy. The cable net said today that Season 3 of Baskets starring Zach Galifianakis and Louie ...

“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 like ...

The FX series isn’t pussyfooting around, you bunch of pussyfooters. Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, for the third season of “Baskets,” which feels even more sure-footed in its playful pathos than ...

It's called "Baskets," and he plays a pretentious, but untalented, bitter and angry rodeo clown. So you play two parts, actually, in "Baskets." You play Baskets the Clown and his twin brother, who is ...

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.