(at around 52 mins) Rorschach is reminded by The Comedian of a joke he heard regarding Pagliacci the clown. In fact, Pagliacci is the Italian word for 'clowns' and refers to the Italian opera of the same name. A more historically correct version of this joke is told by Gerald Mohr as Philip Marlow at the end of the 1949 CBS radio episode "The Heat Wave." Philip Marlow tells the same joke, but the subject is an actual person, "Grock, the world famous clown," thereby pre-dating the Watchmen gag by 60 years.

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