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Haha, You Clowns

American adult animated comedy television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Haha, You Clowns is an American adult animated comedy television series created by Joe Cappa for Cartoon Network's nighttime programming block Adult Swim. It is based on the 2023 Adult Swim Smalls series of the same name, and is the first Small to be picked up as a full series. The series premiered on Adult Swim on October 19, 2025, although the first episode premiered on Adult Swim's YouTube channel two weeks prior on October 7, 2025. In December 2025, the series was renewed for a second and third season.

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“Haha, You Clowns” enters the record as american adult animated comedy television series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Haha, Clowns and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023, 2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Haha, Clowns and American.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2023 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Haha, You Clowns” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.