The gang simply is perhaps going again in time: Danny DeVito couldn’t assist however examine his beloved sitcom “It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia” to a different iconic TV collection, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz’s ’50s comedy “I Love Lucy.”
DeVito instructed Selection whereas in dialogue with Colin Farrell for “Actors on Actors” that after 17 seasons of “It’s All the time Sunny,” he nonetheless finds the present to be as contemporary as ever. “I at all times checked out it as ‘I Love Lucy’ on acid,” he stated. “You might do something you needed.”
DeVito cited simply how completely different “It’s All the time Sunny” is to filming the 1992 function “Batman Returns” through which he performed villain Oswald Cobblepot AKA the Penguin. Farrell provides his personal tackle the character, now named Oz Cobb, in Max collection “The Penguin,” which was a derivative of Matt Reeves’ 2022 movie “The Batman.”
“You’ll be able to go anyplace you need. I like it,” DeVito stated of the liberty of “It’s All the time Sunny,” including to Farrell, “It’s not the identical factor as what you do with ‘The Penguin,’ or what I did with Oswald. Oswald, I caught to the script. There’s no riffing.” DeVito additional clarified that regardless of its title “It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia” is filmed in California “the place we should always make extra films and tv.”
DeVito co-stars alongside Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, Charlie Day, and Kaitlin Olson within the beloved collection. “It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia” made historical past because the longest operating live-action comedy collection in 2020 with its fifteenth season renewal; after all, it’s nonetheless going robust in 2025, precisely 20 years because it first debuted in 2005. Season 17 will premiere in July on FX and Hulu.
McElhenney and Olson, who’re married in actual life, very like Ball and Arnaz of “I Love Lucy,” lately instructed Selection that they really disagree with the comparability that DeVito has now echoed. “I might by no means examine ourselves to Lucy and Desi!” McElhenney stated, including to Olson, “Nonetheless, John [Landgraf of FX] has in contrast you to Lucille Ball.”
Landgraf instructed the outlet that he knew Olson was a star when she first auditioned for “Sunny” in 2004. “Kaitlin was simply nice, it was like watching Lucille Ball stroll by the door,” he stated. “You’ll be able to put her in any scenario, and there’s simply one thing about the best way she performs comedy bodily.”