After a bout with alcoholism, years of struggle as a stand-up and an unimaginable family tragedy, the 'Catastrophe' star has forged his own unique brand of irreverent, shamelessly scatological humor, and now he's earned a lead role in the upcoming 'Home Alone' reboot.
, both with Netflix, andSure, on one hand Delaney may have recently shot a family-friendly Christmas caper reboot for Disney+ — his first leading-man movie role — while adding colorful stickers to his R-rated sex eagle . But then there’s the fact that he’s a Boston-born 44-year-old recovering alcoholic whose late-in-the-day Hollywood break came only after he moved from L.A. to London.
Having amassed “stacks and stacks of jokes … Jay Leno-style two-liners,” none of which was getting him any further than a meeting, he decided he might as well just give them away for free using the stupid new medium of Twitter. Such benevolence was immediately well received — Delaney was rather good at making 140-or-fewer character quips, and the public rather enjoyed not paying for them. By 2012, he was being labeled the “funniest person on Twitter” by Comedy Central .
Presented with this exciting new opportunity to write his own show, Delaney’s first thought was to ask Horgan, someone “who’s made more TV — i.e., any TV — than I have,” if she was interested in teaming up., the delightfully sweet, rude, raw and unsentimental relationship comedy about an American ad man who moves to London after a work-trip fling with an Irish teacher results in her getting pregnant. It sparkled with classic Delaney-isms from the start .
“I wouldn’t say it was cathartic, but I did find grief and work compatible,” he says, speaking as candidly as he did throughout the trauma . The stark contrast of Delaney’s experience compared to that of others going through the same ordeal was, he says, “incredibly educational.” He recalls being at the hospital one day with Henry and other sick children from less fortunate backgrounds and seeing the stress their families were under, and later suiting up for the BAFTAs to be “feted” for his work on TV Not that Delaney wasn’t already deeply political.
But despite this love-in with the U.K., it’s the growing base of A-list fans back across the Atlantic that ignited the next phase in Delaney’s career: film star.
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