Zach Galifianakis’ sad-clown comedy “Baskets” isn't funny — but its oddball charm works in mysterious ways The sometimes pathetic, sometimes absurd comedy from Galifianakis, Louis C.K ...

Baskets Review: Zach Galifianakis Is A Very Sad Clown Zach Galifianakis specializes in a comedy of discomfort, with a deadpan expression followed, at unpredictable moments, by explosions of ...

Maybe Robin Williams was fascinated by the sad clown because he knew him from the mirror. He may not have ridden his bike around Tiburon, Calif., in a “Sad Clown” T-shirt, but the phrase ...

And when Robin Williams died, our narrative of choice was the Sad Clown myth. Funny people are actually sad — their humor is a mask, a crutch, a coping mechanism.

About midway through Trainwreck, Amy Townsend (Amy Schumer) gets a particularly emotional moment — sad, darkly funny and shot through with the messiness of her character. And all I could think ...

“They dared me to kiss you because you’re so depressed,” he asserted matter-of-factly, before scurrying back to his friends.

Columnist Ellyn Laub's most prized art possession is a ceramic clown that was painted by her late father-in-law.