It's Always Sunny on a Samed Named Set

The Fx network is bringing back its critically acclaimed laffer sitcom, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia starring Danny DeVito, Charlie Day, Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, and Kaitlin Olson for a third season. The upstart series has been described as Seinfeld on crack. It is the most successful comedy on cable TV in recent years.

I jumped on the irreverent bandwagon with episode 310 “The Gang Goes Invincible” by landing a part as a featured extra. In my fledgling acting career, this is my first television sitcom. The episode should hold footage of me trying out for my favorite football team, The Philadelphia Eagles. The irony of being in a television parody of the movie Invincible which I acted in is pure irony. Being invisible for the final cut of that movie Invincible seemed parody enough. Moreover, this wonderful thing called life has assembled a reprised role for me wearing shoulder pads and a ragtag #96 Eagles uniform for a national television audience.

My memories of the experience are sunnyside Seinfeld cracked. Slinking my way to the holding area at 7:15 AM in the morning, the incomparable Danny Devito waddled by me on the way to his trailer on the set. With the cast and crew parked along the roadside for a camera swing, actress Kaitlin Olson(pictured above) asked for an escort to a public bathroom while dressed like a man for her wacky scene. Growing-up faithfully watching The Wonder Years, I never imagined sitting at the same lunch table with Fred Savage and listening to him talk shop in his iconic voice as if I were an equal. Summarily, anytime you wind up sharing a seat on a bus with Philadelphia 76ers Beefcake male cheerleader Latino Jesus Rivera, you realize you are in big company with little room for anything else.