It’s always sunny in Philadelphia Creator Rob McElhenney has hit back at Jerry Seinfeld’s suggestion that sitcoms have lost their edge with a reference to a word from his own show.
70-year-old Seinfeld made headlines this week by claiming in an interview that the new Yorker That “far left (and) PC (politically correct) nonsense and people who care so much about hurting other people” are responsible for the “death” of television comedy.
comedian, whose show seinfeld Ran from 1989 to 1998, claiming that many of the series’ jokes would no longer be allowed to air.
Seinfeld said, “(One would) Kramer decided to start a business of getting homeless people to ride rickshaws, because, as he says, ‘They’re on the outside anyway’.” “Do you think I could air that episode today?”
But X/Twitter McElhaney answered that question directly, saying: “Probably.”
He attached a photo of long lasting It’s always sunny in Philadelphia The character Matthew “Ricky Cricket” Mara, played by David Hornsby.
In the show, Rickety Cricket is a former school friend of the central characters who is first seen on screen as a priest. His interactions with the gang during the show lead to his downfall which eventually results in him becoming a homeless crack addict.
What McElhaney implies is that the dire circumstances of Rickety Cricket make Kramer’s plan weak by comparison.
IndependentAdam White also believes that Seinfeld is wrong to claim that “PC bullshit” has killed off TV comedy, arguing that this view ignores the fact that comedy – including Including his eponymous sitcom – always affected when a joke goes too far.
Earlier this week, McElhaney and Ryan Reynolds shared an update on their investment in Wrexham AFC.
The 47-year-old pair jointly bought the team for a reported £2million in 2020, while the club was in the fifth tier of English football.
Their journey as club owners is chronicled in the FX/Disney+ series, Welcome to Wrexham.
While promoting the show’s upcoming third season, the pair were asked The Associated Press Where they were financially with investments.
Reynolds responded, “Accountants don’t really want to hear about emotional investing.”
“You want to know, like, how far into danger am I?” McElhaney asked. “It is quite important. It is true that in the beginning when we asked our advisors whether this was a good economic investment, I remember there was not a single person who said ‘yes’.
“It was more like, ‘Don’t do it.'”
