“Merry Christmas from a blue state/Happy holidays to you,” sings the plaintive clown Molly Brennan to a deeply sad, original melody in the mood of “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.”She ...

“Happy the Clown” was a children’s program on what was then WFIL-TV, Channel 6, in Philadelphia that ran from 1956 to 1968. Happy was played by […] Skip to content. All Sections.

Clowns, harlequins, jokers and Pierrots have served as the main characters in countless songs over the years, but they’re rarely there to conjure cheap laughs.