After 20 years of working Paddy’s Pub with the gang, Glenn Howerton has had his share of hysteria about being a part of the longest-running live-action comedy collection within the US.
The actor, who performs poisonous narcissist Dennis Reynolds, admitted he was frightened It’s At all times Sunny in Philadelphia would “put on out our welcome” across the time Season 12 of the FXX comedy went into manufacturing in 2016.
“I used to be frightened that perhaps, we had type of peaked or one thing, and I simply was like, we’ve been doing this for a very long time and I feel I used to be additionally anxious,” he mentioned at PaleyLive’s twentieth anniversary celebration for the present, based on Leisure Weekly.
“I had not discovered but easy methods to stretch myself and be capable of do different issues that I needed to do with my profession exterior of the present,” added Howerton. “I simply hadn’t discovered how to do this but, and I used to be aching to do different issues and so I used to be beginning to really feel slightly boxed in, frankly.”
Howerton emphasised that he “by no means misplaced any appreciation for the present,” including, “I simply thought like perhaps we should always—after which they have been like, ‘We don’t wish to finish it,’ and I used to be like, ‘Oh okay, effectively I can’t cease you.’ After which after that, I booked A.P. Bio.”
Charlie Day, Danny DeVito, Rob McElhenney, Kaitlin Olson and Glenn Howerton at PaleyLive: ‘It’s At all times Sunny in Philadelphia’ twentieth Anniversary Celebration! on July 1, 2025 in Los Angeles, California
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He beforehand triggered hypothesis he was leaving the present when Dennis abandoned the gang after discovering out he fathered a toddler on the finish of Season 12, returning for Seasons 13 and 14 as an actor, however not as a part of the writers’ room.
Though the cliffhanger got here across the time he started filming his NBC sitcom A.P. Bio (2018-’21), Howerton clarified on Twitter on the time that “whether or not Dennis comes again or not has nothing to do” together with his different present.
Howerton co-created It’s At all times Sunny with co-star Rob McElhenney, reuniting in Season 17, which premieres July 9 with ‘The Gang F***s Up Abbott Elementary’, the second half of the present’s two-part crossover occasion with ABC’s Abbott Elementary.
