Charlie Day channels his inner Chaplin in trailer for directorial debut Fool's Paradise

While we would love for It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia to keep feeding us Chardee MacDennis sequels and other unhinged content until the world ends (a feat the show certainly seems to be striving for), it’s always fun to watch one of the Paddy’s gang strike out on their own.

The latest to flex his behind-the-scenes chops is Charlie Day, whose “directorial debut” Fool’s Paradise hits theaters in early May. (Obligatory scare quotes because we would argue that his actual directorial debut was the groundbreaking musical phenomenon The Nightman Cometh, but anything for marketing we guess!)

The film sees Day using his considerable penchant for physical comedy to channel another iconic Charlie of yore, alongside one of the best comedic casts assembled in recent memory (or at least since the Barbie movie was announced).

Day plays a man who has recently been released from a mental health facility but has lost the ability to speak and fully comprehend the world, an affliction that looks less like an actual health condition and more like a clever conceit for putting a classic silent movie actor into the modern world (top-hat and all) without resorting to time travel.