It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is a favorite series here at Mediaite, appreciated for its hilarious characters, take-no-prisoners gags, and embrace of musical theater. So when I interviewed Nonsociety's Jordan Reid for this piece and learned that she'd been one of the original gang on the show, naturally I had questions. How did that come about? What part did she play? And, the money question: Why did she leave? Reid declined to speak about her depature from Always Sunny on the record, but today she goes public with her story: She, along with Always Sunny co-founders Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day and Glenn Howerton, were the original "Gang" who put together Always Sunny's scrappy pilot-for-a-pittance, which got picked up by F/X. At the time, she was dating McIlhenny — and right around the time the pilot got picked up, the relationship got rocky. (more...)

video Last night Danny DeVito was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and fans of his quietly-getting-ginormous TV show, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, were treated to a musical rendition of an awesome in-joke: The Roots played DeVito in with a swingin' rendition of "Troll Toll" from the Always Sunny musical, The Nightman Cometh. See? Total in-joke. Here it is, in a nutshell: Danny DeVito plays the Troll who demands a Toll from the Nightman who wants the Boy's soul. Line: "You've got to pay the Troll Toll if you want to get into this boy's soul." What else does "Boy's Soul?" sound like? Exactly. (more...)

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Tonight, FX's flagship comedy It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia premieres its fifth season with an episode titled "The Gang Exploits the Mortgage Crisis." If you are already an Always Sunny fan, as it is known to the converted, you know its gonna be good. If not, try to imagine the gang from Seinfeld, liquored and drugged up, arguing loudly and backstabbing each other while concocting elaborate schemes to outsmart the world around them. And failing. Inevitably failing. And Danny DeVito is there too. Wearing Coke-bottle glasses with hair disheveled, and usually waving a gun. (more...)