Even though Pagliacci references weren’t as popular as they are today, he could be sure at least some of his followers would get the joke. In 1905, the Mexican poet Juan de Dios Peza recorded his poem “Reir Llorando” (“To Laugh While Crying”), which features a clown named Garrick in the gag.Ĭolossal says that a decade ago he tweeted for his friends in comics. In 2012, BBC magazine History Extra noted that numerous real clowns have been referenced in the punch line, one of them the Swiss entertainer Grock, born in 1880.
In 1876, essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson published “ The Comic,” a story that ended with an entertainer named Carlini. The story of the sad clown and the doctor is decades old. How, exactly, did the great clown Pagliacci become Twitter’s favorite joke? It all started in the 1800s, but it began in earnest in 2014. In July and August alone, numerous people went viral spinning the sorrows of Pagliacci, from questioning the doctor’s medical credentials to flipping the scenario on its head. This is the foundation of the most riffable joke on the internet.
“The great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight,” the doctor says, “Go and see him! That should sort you out.” The man bursts into tears. “Doctor, I’m depressed,” the man says life is harsh, unforgiving, cruel. A man goes to a doctor-that’s how the story always begins.
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