Tuesday night’s Season 3 finale of “Baskets” (10 p.m. on FX) holds several surprises — but whether the series will return for Season 4 remains to be seen.
“I feel like it would be great if this family could go to the very end with everything,” says series star Louie Anderson, who won a 2016 Emmy playing family matriarch Christine Baskets, who, this season, bought a rodeo for identical-twin man-child sons Chip and Dale (Zack Galifianakis). “We’ve grown so much as a family in so many ways … and also found out how little we know … and how much there is out there in this big, bad world.
“I’m hopeful we’re going to come back, but honestly I don’t know,” he says. “I wish I did know, but I’m not the person that they’re telling.”
The fate of “Baskets” notwithstanding, Anderson’s new book, “Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too,” drops April 3 and was inspired by Christine Baskets (based, in part, on his mother, Ora Zella Anderson). “When I started [the book] I didn’t realize I had so much to say to my mom,” says Anderson. “I didn’t realize I could’ve been a lot nicer to my mom and I feel terrible about that. Playing Christine, I found out what it would be like to be a mom — how hard it would be and how responsible you feel with these people, these kids … you’re the architect of their lives in so many ways. What’s the right thing or wrong thing to do as a person and as a parent?”
Anderson also has a new comedy special, “Big Underwear,” out April 3 on Amazon, DirecTV, AT&T, Dish and other outlets. “I love the anatomy of a joke,” he says. “It’s like archaeology — if you dig too deep, you miss it, and if you don’t dig deep enough, you won’t find it. It’s a kind of crazy thing.”