Tears Of A Clown: Comedic Characters Who Had Sad Backstories
Phoebe Buffay in “Friends”
For someone who seemed to be in their own, enlightened world, Phoebe definitely spent a lot of her early life in the dark.
After her father left her, her mother committed suicide, her twin sister not wanting anything to do with her, being homeless, finding out her real mother was alive in her late twenties, and a host of other things, Phoebe came off pretty well adjusted.