“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 ...

Chip Baskets (Zach Galifianakis) from the FX comedy, Baskets, is the quintessential dreamer. An aspiring clown, Chip goes to extremes to make his dreams come true. And while it’s not always clear if ...

The line between comedy and tragedy is dangerously thin — that’s what can make comedy exciting. One way to determine comedy greatness is how close it comes to stepping over that line. Louis C.K.’s ...

Whatever ambivalence I have towards Baskets (which I reviewed back in January) on the whole, I could not be more sure of my love for Louie Anderson’s role in it. The stand-up comic and actor plays ...

FX has dropped the official trailer for Season 4 of Baskets. The opener shows Chip (Zach Galifianakis) struggling to marry his career dream of being a clown with the reality that in today’s world, ...

ST. PAUL - The last time we saw Louie Anderson on a TV series, he was sporting a swimsuit while competing on the celebrity diving show "Splash." That was nearly three years ago. Starting Thursday, ...

WHAT IT’S ABOUT Got dreams? So does Chip Baskets (comic actor Zach Galifianakis). He wants to be a clown. He’s gone to Paris to be a clown. But he’s bad at it. Wrongheaded. Oblivious. He’s got ...

Christine and Chip in the Yard Sale episode of Baskets, where memaw’s things are sold off This week’s Baskets episode, titled Yard Sale, made us laugh and cry within 30 minutes. Esther Roosevelt is ...

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‘Baskets,’ Starring Zach Galifianakis, to End With Season 4 on FX 'Baskets' is coming to an end at FX, as the now Disney-owned basic cable network announced Wednesday that the current fourth season of ...

New FX comedy goes for 'Louie'-styled gold but forgets to mine the funny parts in big swing attempt. By Tim Goodman Baskets, the new FX series starring Zach Galifianakis, was co-created by the actor ...