Charlie Day

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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With the airing of its 15th season in 2021, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia became the longest-running live-action sitcom in the history of American television. In this week’s Sunday Sitdown, Willie gets together with the show’s star and co-creator, Charlie Day, to talk about dreaming up that series with his best friends, his successful movie career, and his first turn at directing in the new film, Fool’s Paradise.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:12.1	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.
0:15.3	Got a great one for you this week with the hilarious Charlie Day.
0:19.7	You probably know him best from its always sunny in Philadelphia show that is now shooting
0:24.1	its 16th season.
0:26.2	It is believe it or not the longest running live action TV comedy in history, meaning not
0:32.1	animated.
0:33.1	The Simpsons holds that title.
0:34.6	But longer than Seinfeld, longer than Friends, the list goes on and on and on.
0:38.4	It's a show he dreamed up, Charlie and a couple of buddies really beginning when they were
0:43.4	20 somethings living on the lower East Side of Manhattan and they would shoot these short
0:47.2	videos about their lives.
0:49.4	And it turned into this phenomenon, this show that's still going and really for the foreseeable
0:53.9	future.
0:54.9	So, he's got that piece of his life, how that was created, why it has endured and also
1:01.0	he's been in a bunch of movies you know and love.
1:03.0	He's in horrible bosses, specific rim.
1:05.7	He's in the brand new movie.
1:08.4	Yeah, Super Mario Brothers.
1:10.6	He plays Luigi alongside Chris Pratt's Mario.
1:14.0	So he's got that going on and also what he and I really dig into here is upcoming film
1:18.8	Fools Paradise.
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