It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia is a show that faces the same criticism as a lot of the music in Kerrang!’s world: there’s a lot of scruffy people shouting. However, there is vastly more going on than that, and over 170 episodes and 18 years, Sunny has produced some of the most consistently hilarious, over-the-top television ever made.
While the five narcissistic, self-centred, amoral characters at the centre of it are all extraordinary, illiterate janitor Charlie Kelly might just be the greatest character in TV history, thanks in part to his savant-like musical abilities courtesy of actor (and show co-creator) Charlie Day.
With Charlie's feature directorial debut, Fools’s Paradise – a Hollywood satire in which he swaps his near-constant yelling in Sunny for an almost totally silent lead performance – out now, we thought it right to chat about the soundtrack to his life...