After numerous injuries over the years from his energetic clowning, his health was also declining rapidly, and he retired in 1823. He appeared occasionally on stage for a few years thereafter, but his performances were restricted by his worsening physical disabilities. In his last years, Grimaldi lived in relative obscurity and became a depressed, impoverished alcoholic. He outlived both his wife and his actor son, Joseph Samuel, dying at home in Islington in 1837, aged 58.
I just wanted to read about a funny famous clown 
The famous clown Dirt_Owl is posting. Perhaps you could read some of their posts to cheer up?
I tried but it’s all piss
But doctor, I am Pagliacci
You either die a “go see Pagliacci” or you live long enough to become the “but doctor…”
Tuberculosis
aged 58
Workers at the time were not even socially murdered but fully blown socially exterminated by their living conditions into having average lifespan of even 15 years in some places.
This may seem a little dark but the only time a clown made me smile when he was himself for a moment.
Yeah reading about New York in the 1850s and it’s like Mad Max. Dock workers rationed whiskey throughout the day in addition to a paltry sum of coins. Just absolute hell.
No wonder people back then were all about whimsy.
