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Krusty the Klown (The Simpsons)

Krust the Klown

When Simpsons creator Matt Groening was a kid in Portland, Oregon, in the 1960s, he often watched a gravelly voiced, world-weary TV clown named Rusty Nails. “He was actually a very sweet, good-natured clown,” Groening has said. “With an incredibly frightening name.”