donniefriedman The lyric to this old country song might as well be the mantra of this wonderful series. To my mind, it's about unconditional love and its victims. The beating heart is Louie Anderson's Mrs. Baskets, and I believe the best episodes are the ones in which he/she features. It's a tender-hearted show billed as a comedy. I guess it's a comedy in the way the sad clown is comedy (clowning being the leitmotif throughout) I'm two seasons into it and eager to learn what happens to the Baskets Family Rodeo.

sclafunk Thru 2 full seasons. Yeah, I'm giving it a ten for sure. Not Bc it's s television classic, but Bc of the passion and attn to realistic detail. Galifinakis does a great job playing the twins, and Louie Anderson even better as their mother. I honestly forget that he's not a woman when I watch the show. It's truly one of the great comedic acting performances of the last decade; on par with Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman. There's some laugh out loud moments for sure, but it's more about the overall quirkiness of the show and journey of baskets the clown, and they hit that nail on the head. Couldn't be better at being exactly what it wants To be, a unique dark comedy that takes a long honest look at the dying middle class of America, and a bizarre and specific family dynamic entrenched within it, clearly with passion put in from top to bottom, which is more than can be said of 97% of tv. Def worth the binge, seems to get better as it goes on.

kvnsodak I hope this show has a nice long run because Louie Anderson is so amazing in his role. His performance is so perfectly understated. The rest of the cast does a very good job but Louie really makes the show. It gets a little frustrating at times because it isn't the usual cookie cutter programming we have come to expect and I like that. I also like the peculiar characters who feel more like people from real life than in main stream sitcoms.

swilliky The new FX show about Chip Baskets the Clown played by Zach Galifianakis created by him and Louis C. K.. The show tells the story of a clown that trains in France at the clown school despite not knowing any French. Galifianakis uses his great talent at physical comedy and goofiness to generate hilarious situations. Most of the scenes in Paris are so funny because he always claims not to understand what people are saying only when they are speaking English.After dropping out of clown school and assuming the name Renoir, he takes his wife, who only married him for a green card, played by Sabina Sciubba back to Bakersfield to work as a rodeo clown. He doesn't make enough money to live so eventually is kicked out of his motel room, which he had moved into with every item he owns. He falls in with his insurance rate adjuster Martha, played with a deadpan voice by Martha Kelly. Martha is willing to help him through pretty much anything.After season 2: Zach Galifianakis returns to the down on his luck clown, Chip Baskets from the genius comedic minds of Galifianakis and Louis CK. The second season picks up with Chip on the road as he quit his job at Arby's. He falls in with a rough crowd of heroin users who shack up in empty houses and perform during the day on the street referring to him as Noodles. Baskets uses his clowning skills to win over the group of vagabonds much to the chagrin of a fellow clown Trinity (Mary Wiseman). Chip finds that hopping on trains with addicts isn't so easy when the leader Morpheus (Tobias Jelinek) gets gruesomely hit by a train.Meanwhile, Mrs. Baskets (Louie Anderson) befriends Martha (Martha Kelly) as she continues to shop at Costco. Chip's twin brother Dale is still dealing with his wife finding out he slept with Martha and tries to start a relationship with Martha in Dale's self-centered style. Chips winds up in prison and has to have his mother come bail him out and meets Ken (Alex Morris). They spark a relationship that goes further when Mrs. Baskets goes out to Denver to see him after Chip and Dale destroy her house fighting each other.Check out more of this review and others at swilliky.com