- What do you think, in your personal opinion,
is the worst thing that Dee has ever done?
- Oh, my (beeping)
Hi, I'm Kaitlin Olson and I am in Studio
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Season 14.
- 14. - It is upon us.
- Yes. - And this is
a record-tying season.
- Yes, we now are tied with Ozzie and Harriet
for longest-running
- [Both] live-action comedy.
- Yes, no one's gonna ever beat The Simpsons,
it's not it's not
just unattainable. - Yeah, it's not possible.
I know, it's like they're immortal or something.
- I know, I know,
We're gonna try though. - They never age.
- We're gonna try, I wanna be The Golden Girls
of inappropriate, basic cable comedy.
- Perfect, is there any news about season 15?
I mean, I assume that everybody would be excited
to break the record.
- You know, I don't even know if it's about that,
but it's just so much fun.
I don't think we really ever want to stop doing it.
I think, it's very easy for me to say
because I don't produce this show,
I don't write it and I don't edit it.
So it's a two and a half months out of the year commitment.
So I would do it forever.
It's more about whether Rob and Charlie
feel like they wanna jump
right back into the writers room and Glen.
And it's a lot, they put a lot of pressure on themselves
to make really great quality episodes
and sometimes you need a little bit of a break,
but hopefully, we'll take a break and come back.
- Well, let's talk about this season.
- Okay.
- So okay, so I have watched a few of the episodes,
I assume there might be some that you would be excited
for the world to see, are there any
that you were particularly excited about?
- Yes, there is an episode called
A Woman's Right to Chop,
which is all about how the guys think
that women shouldn't be getting very, very short haircuts
because they don't like it and they have to look at it.
So they should have an input on whether or not
women should be able to do that.
And I love that one very, very much.
There's an episode where we tackle climate change
that cracks me up.
- [Marya] Excellent.
- And then we do a Film Noir episode this year,
just because we always like to do something weird
to mix it up, to keep ourselves entertained
and that one's really fun.
Oh, and Dolph Lundgren.
- Oh, yes, can we talk about that?
Did you get to meet Dolph Lundgren?
- I didn't get to meet him.
It was like the one day that I didn't work.
He's so dreamy though, right?
- Yes. - Yeah.
- Did a good job. - Yeah, that was really
exciting, I actually very much enjoyed that episode,
just because of the whole idea of focus grouping,
maximum thunder.
- Thunder Gun. - Thunder gun.
- [Both] Maximum cool.
- Yeah. (laughing)
- I love that, I mean, I love any send-up
of the movie industry because right now,
it is so rife for, I mean, it's so easy to make fun of it
just because it's gotten so sequelly and so crazy
and out of control. - Yes, well, and also
because, you know, we're very good friends
with the creators of Game of Thrones
and I loved Game of Thrones so much
and it was so ridiculous to me, the outcry over,
fine, you didn't like the finale, okay?
Demanding they rewrite and re-shoot the finale
is the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life.
Just some random people who don't know how to write
demanding that it could be done better is so funny to me.
So I like that.
- So one of the things about It's Always Sunny
that is great is that the characters don't change,
they don't ever learn anything,
they don't ever evolve,
but you've been inhabiting this role for over a decade
and The Gang has been creating together for over a decade,
so what has evolved on the show,
if the characters aren't evolving?
- Yeah. Well, I think that fifth or sixth character
is really the city of Philadelphia and the environment.
And we really like exploring how that's evolving
and how we're trying to adapt to it
while holding on to this idea
that we have zero desire to change.
And that's really funny to me and I love the idea
that Danny really just represents
what we're going to turn into.
I mean, hopefully nobody grows or evolves.
Rob gets asked this question a lot
because his character is now gay,
but the beautiful thing about Mac is that he's still Mac
and even though he's gay, he's still fiercely Catholic
and does not believe, I mean, it's the struggle there
is so much more fun to watch now that he's come out.
And he's still a despicable person.
- Yes, he's still actively torturing himself.
- Yes, that's right.
(laughing)
He just now thinks that everyone wants
to see him without his shirt and we don't.
- So we all want a season 15 to happen,
so how do we get the ball rolling on that campaign?
Is there anything in the news that would pique your interest
for a season 15. - Always. (laughing)
- I mean things are happening right now
that I feel like.
- There's always something happening in the news.
I think whether we did it now or waited a year
or waited until 2020, which would be very interesting,
there's always gonna be something that we can satirize.
- I feel like really Rudy Giuliani needs to be like related.
- Oh, uh, please don't do that to me.
(laughing)
Maybe someone that we model after Rudy Giuliani.
- [Marya] Giuliani type.
- He's despicable, that's for sure.
- The show gets to be amazingly inappropriate
and it gets away with it.
Why do you think it gets away with it,
whereas other shows get called out for being
crazy, crazy disgusting?
- That's a really good question and we get asked that a lot.
I'm not sure I know the answer, I think it might
be because we started doing this,
we've taken a year off, a year or two off,
we started doing this 15 years ago.
And not a lot of people were doing it
and I think the reason we get away with it
is because we are clearly not advocating for this behavior,
we're very clearly calling this behavior out
as ludicrous and because we are really pointing out,
making fun of, sounds mean, but I think we really are,
I am making fun of extremes on all sides.
- Right, right. - So there are a lot
of people who come up and they're like,
"That's so cool, you're making fun
"of those snowflake liberals."
And we're like, "Are we?" And the next people are like,
"Oh, it's great that you guys are bashing conservatives."
And it's like, if you really watch it,
we're looking at human behavior
and how reprehensible it can be
when you go to the extreme
and you are completely narcissistic and not worried
about the greater good.
- Right, 'cause as we know from Sunny,
from Veep and from Curb Your Enthusiasm,
selfishness is a human behavior not attached
to any political flag.
- That's right.
That's exactly right and when you take it to the extreme,
it's absolutely ridiculous
and people who really, really firmly stand behind
and defend that that behavior is just funny.
- Okay. So the last question to you
and this is gonna be a hard one,
but what do you think, in your personal opinion,
is the worst thing that Dee has ever done?
- Oh my, the worst things Dee's ever done.
Maybe, oh, gosh, put shoe polish on a baby
because a black baby is more desirable
and more expensive than a white baby, maybe?
I don't know, there's a lot to choose from,
but that's but first thing that popped into my head.
- Hey, pretty, pretty bad. - Pretty bad.
I have two babies now, so that's a bad idea.
- Do you think you're gonna let your kids watch the show?
- Oh, my gosh, so my nine-year-old has been begging
for two years and, literally, just last week,
I let him watch most of Dee Day
and he was beside himself.
- (laughing) - He's been stealing scripts
and reading them behind my back for a while apparently
and so he's at a great age where it's like,
we can talk about swearing, he can swear at home
as much as he wants just to practice
and get out of his system.
He knows, doesn't ever do it at school.
It's really just there certain subject matter
he doesn't really even know about in the world yet
that I wanna protect him from,
but there's a lot that he actually can watch.
And my kids are really funny
and have a really good sense of humor,
so I love that you asked that
'cause that actually just started
and that might be happening every Wednesday night.
- I love that your kids are getting excited
about the business. Do you think they're going to go
into the business? - No, I don't think so
and I really hope not.
- Do they think it's ridiculous what Mommy and Daddy do?
- They don't really care, they just like craft services,
they come and there just like, "Yeah, cool,
"where's the snacks?"
And I'm like, "No, I'm about to do a really funny scene.
"Do you wanna see it?"
And they're like, "We would love to get some M&M's,
"is that an option?"
They get excited every time the billboards go up.
There's a billboard on the way to school.
- They're proud.
- They're proud of us, yeah, which is kind of cool,
but other than that, I don't think they care.
- All right, well, we're very much
looking forward to a season 15.
Fingers crossed. - My fingers are crossed too.
- And happy to watch the rest of season 14 on FX
and FXX. - Hope you like it.
- Bye.