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After failing to get a degree at the Academie de Clown Français in Paris, Chip Baskets is stuck with a job at $4 an hour as bull bait in a rodeo. But Chip does not stop looking to keep his dream of becoming a professional clown alive.
When a Pierrot is gored by a bull, one should be worried, not thrilled. But Baskets is so smug, so condescending to everyone around him that for just a moment, we're rooting for that bull.
You'll hear a lot of people say Baskets is funny, you'll probably hear even more who say it isn't, but you'll have to figure this one out on your own. Me, I love it.
Baskets doesn't have the DNA to truly soar, but it's odd and off-putting enough to succeed for a few seasons perhaps, like FX's other more jagged attempts at comedy.
Baskets is a darkly humorous, razor sharp comedy that uses everything in Zach Galifianakis' arsenal to get laughs, and it succeeds every step of the way.
[Galifianakis is] really, really good at drawing the humor out of that kind of character, and maybe the most promising thing about this new series is watching him take that in a deeper, stranger direction. I'm excited to see where it goes.