Rob McElhenney: Eagles Super Bowl hopes, 'It's Always Sunny,' and 'Mythic Quest'

The Philly native talks about one of the longest-running sitcoms in history, “Mythic Quest,” his Welsh football team and the Eagles. What are his predictions for Sunday?

Air Date: February 5, 2025 12:00 pm

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Rob McElhenney is juggling a lot of projects. There’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the longest-running live-action sitcom in television history which he created. There’s Mythic Quest, the comedy on AppleTV+ set in the office of a multiplayer video game company. And there’s Welcome to Wrexham, a docu-series about managing the professional Welsh football team he bought with actor Ryan Reynolds – it’s a sort of real-life Ted Lasso.

Rob McElhenney grew up in South Philadelphia, the setting of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and has always been a big fan of Philly sports. So, with the Birds headed to Super Bowl 59, we had to have him on Studio 2.

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