The great Danny Devito currently starring in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is a guest on LNWJF tonight.
5 Things You Did Not Know About Danny Devito (unless you read his Wikipedia page)
1. Along with wife Rhea Perlman, he founded Jersey Films, a production company famous for producing films such as Pulp Fiction, Garden State, and Freedom Writers, and Jersey Television, most famous for producing the Comedy Central series Reno 911!
2. DeVito played Martini in the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (reprising his role from the 1971 off-Broadway play). DeVito gained fame in 1978 on the hit TV show Taxi as Louie De Palma, the dispatcher for the fictional Sunshine Cab Company.
3. DeVito made his feature directing debut on dark comedy Throw Momma from the Train, in which he additionally starred, opposite Billy Crystal and Anne Ramsey.
4. It is said that Jack Nicholson convinced DeVito to play The Penguin in Tim Burton's Batman Returns since Nicholson enjoyed great success as The Joker in the original Batman from 1989. Rather than portraying the villain as a suave and sophisticated gangster as he was in the comics, DeVito portrayed him as a deformed psychopath.
5. In addition to his Taxi work, DeVito has voiced Herb Powell, Homer Simpson's half-brother, on two episodes of The Simpsons.
BONUS BLOOPER! (NSFW, language and censored nudity)
