Creeps, what’s your favorite moment from The Nightman Cometh?

The quiet start with Charlie on the piano and Meg vibin is a great way to start the show.

I unironically would watch a full production broadway musical of all Charlie Day music. I'd buy that ticket first day

charlie is like unbelievably musically talented. do another musical episode please 😭

I love how LMM’s thought when he noticed Charlie and Mary Elizabeth were in the audience was “oh shit it’s Charlie and THE WAITRESS”. 😅😂

"I don't know enough about music to know" - Charlie Day, the guy who wrote an entire musical episode in one day

This opening with Charlie and Megan is wholesome AF

I don't think I have seen anything sexier than a disheveled Charlie playing that piano so beautifully in quiet room with one observer

I agree with Glenn. Gladys' delivery of "what's happening?", for me, is the funniest one in the entire show. Charlie's delivery when Dee explains the Invigaron is a close second.

Charlie unironically feels like a musical prodigy

my favorite line in the episode is dennis going full gangster with "you know what it is bitch" while cocking the pistol.

i honestly kinda thought Lin-Manuel being a superfan was half joking but wow it's so cool seeing him actually geeks out about this episode His passion about musicals really shows

Meg is such a good producer she really helps move the show along which has to be hard with five people on mic.

Lin trying to guide the podcast towards the Nightman Cometh but Charlie coming back to Hamilton all the time makes me laugh. Two Iconic musicals that will stand the test of time.

Artemis suggesting “a sexually charged embrace” always makes me laugh.

Lin-Manuel geeking out over this episode is just amazing, a true testament to Cormac, Charlie, Rob, and Glenn's genius.

I'll always remember the moment I knew this show had become a cultural juggernaut. My architecture studio did a semester abroad in Finland in 2014, and at one point while the entire studio (about 25% American students and 75% Finnish) was quietly working, someone spontaneously shouted out "Dayman!" and the *entire* room simultaneously responded with the "aaaAAAAaaaah!"

Why is Charlie Day the most charming person in the world. His piano playing was fantastic, and the fact he has in his head the actual chords to his little a cappella opening riff is fantastic!

I love when Frank asks if he can play the part naked and Artemis looks at him surprised because she asked Dee that exact same question in her first episode (Coyote Ugly dancer). The spark of their (weird) relationship always feels like it started there. Kindred spirits.

"but he lost his sense of feel" actually brought a real fucking tear to my eye. That intro was golden

My daughter organized and performed in a re-creation of The Nightman Cometh for her grade 10 theatre class final project. It was fantastic. Ode to Sunny

Glenn just instinctively filling in the "Ahhhahhhahhhhhh" at the end gave me so much joy. God I love this show.

Charlie just noodlin' through the songs in the beginning made my night.

"There are points when your IQ goes up 100 points" is the perfect way to describe Charlie wanting to get his pent up creative freedom out in this show. A random episode he'll go on 3-syllable word filled rants about complex ideas, and then he'll go right back eating paint and not realizing his own friends are making fun of him.

Charlie just inadvertently rewriting Into The Woods after claiming he knows nothing about music 😂

One of my all time favorite moments of the show is “i’m eating because i’m incredibly uncomfortable”. Seeing Dennis in such a human, relatable, and vulnerable moment so rare in the show and just slays me every time. I’ve probably said that line to my wife 100 times at various parties and gatherings and it always helps me giggle and feel better.

The bloopers with Gladys are hilarious 😂🤣, what a legend.

I'd pay SO much money to see a Lin-Manuel and Charlie written/produced musical. I'm sure they'd come up with something tremendous!

Can I ask how on earth has Glenn not been King George in Hamilton yet? He would be PERFECT in this role! Just think about it.

There's something amazing someone who doesn't "know enough about music" to know the quality of a beautiful chord they're playing. I could listen to Charlie at the piano for the whole show.

If I don't see Gelnn Howerton playing King George on Broadway I'm going to riot. Make it happen Lin

We seriously needs another channel where it’s just Charlie noodling around on the keys while Meg is just quietly working away. Hands down the best way to start the day!

My favorite thing might have been that Glenn didn’t mention that he went Juilliard…but Charlie did. The friendship and support between the 3 guys is really special. And listening to all of these folks talk musical theater made this old “drama kid” so happy. Also, the only musical that gets in my head more than The Nightman Cometh is Hamilton. This episode was all I hoped it would be. 💖

Can’t emphasize enough how cool it is to see Lin Manual and the guys having fun and talking about their musical process. So cool that he’s a fan of the show

Glenn hitting the high note at like 9am is impressive. He probably intermittent fasts

I love how Glenn accepted his role in the Dayman song at the end. Legendary

Cormac is so sweet! Charlie is so lucky with the friends he's gathered in his life, but it seems like he gives to them just as much as they've given to him!

I think what we're discovering is that the venn diagram of sunny fans who also love stage musicals is more cohesive than we initially thought. Love that.

I always loved that the background of the play is just a painting of Charlie and Frank's apartment- even in his imagination, the best he can come up with is just the same thing he sees every day hahaha

Props to Megan for always being super prepared! She's always got clips/bloopers ready and she always has great notes about the cast and extras. She's a pro!

My favorite parts are Artemis's facial expression during rehearsal. All the faces, 😆

The first two and a half minutes where Charlie is just playing and humming and improvising towards the end really speak to his talent. You can tell how much talent someone has when they're just playing around and it still sounds amazing!

My wife uses the “take a 5” on our kids all the time! 😂 thank you guys!

Cormac Bluestone is such a badass name lol

Meg's genuine love of the show really represents just how much the fans love the show, and I appreciate her for that.

*TIMESTAMPS* 0:00 Charlie plays songs and talks Sondheim chords 2:49 Cormac Bluestone is here 4:02 EPISODE DISCUSSION BEGINS HERE 5:10 Cold open / Original bar rivalry plot / S5E12 7:40 Live shows: cut songs and "Troll in My Hole"*** [S4 DVD extra] 10:00 How Cormac met Charlie and got involved with Sunny's music 12:58 Writing lyrics 14:10 "Come one, come all..." / "I'm eating because I'm uncomfortable" / More cut material 15:18 Rehearsal scenes 17:00 *Gladys* (Mae LaBorde) 19:06 Live vs lip sync: the descending sun, pre-recording, editing troubles 21:42 - 22:55 ADVERTISEMENT#1 (My Undies) 22:57 - 24:33 ADVERTISEMENT#2 (Raycon) 24:41 Charlie's sailor cap 25:40 Origin of "Tiny Boy, Little Boy" and "Troll Toll" / Charlie and Hornsby at Williamstown / "Boy's soul" 27:05 Filming live with an audience 27:58 Mac's cat eyes / Rob's off-beat snaps / Danny's musical cue (Troll Toll) 30:07 *Lin-Manuel Miranda the super-fan is here* / "Charlie and The Waitress!" at Hamilton 33:08 Glenn and Charlie's history with musicals 37:15 Stephen Sondheim 39:56 Workshopping The Nightman Cometh and the safety of comedy / David Bowie 42:32 "Song or no song" scene 45:43 Proposing to the Waitress / Fan proposals 46:46 Sincerity in musicals + nostalgia for cheap productions 49:40 LMM's creative process and writing advice 53:43 Writing catchy numbers: King George (Hamilton), "I was that little boy..." (IASIP) 56:38 - 57:55 ADVERTISEMENT#3 (Athletic Greens) 57:55 *Charlie, Cormac and LMM riff on music* - Charlie's proposal, Sondheim, "Tiny Boy, Little Boy", set up and pay-off, "Just To Be Clear..." 1:02:07 "Troll Toll" - Blues, Danny's dedication, troll foot 1:07:00 Fan reactions to live performances 1:08:56 Writing and starring in a musical 1:10:49 *Dayman* - Cormac's additions (see live show), third act, Waiting for Guffman reference 1:13:35 Proposal scene 1:15:48 Charlie improvs music "Tommy" / Rob Justice is mad at his boss / Bobby Lopez / Princess Peach / Final thoughts 1:19:27 *"Dayman" outro* ***The Nightman Cometh Live is up on youtube and the clip of Dennis singing "I've got a troll in my hole..." is from that 50 minute video. If you haven't watched it already, do yourselves a favour.

Lin seems like a pretty humble guy, he redirected so many compliments/comments on his work back to the show

As a musician and die hard sunny fan this episode of the pod was just perfect in so many ways

Charlie's face when they're talking about using this musical as inspiration is just incredibly wholesome and had to feel so overwhelming for him. Incredible.

I think Mac's baffled, mildly concerned "whatcha doin' buddy?" at the beginning is my favorite part.

Charlie casually writing a whole musical in the first 2 minutes

As a young wannabe filmmaker/scriptwriter I find these Sunny podcasts so incredibly interesting. It isn't a surprise that they reached this level of success, because while they seem like they are just playing, they are actually so incredibly smart and know what they are doing.

I envy musician's ability to just come up with something like that on the spot like Charlie did there and just change the mood and emotions of a whole room. Music is powerful, man. I'm a visual artist myself and I often hear people say the same thing about artists, like "I envy artists' ability to just conjure an image out of thin air, it's like a special power", but like, maybe it's trivial to musicians, but music's so much more special an ability to me. What Charlie did there with the improvised musical was like magic to me, it's such a powerful ability.

I think the world would be a much better place if everyone had more Charlie in their lives :)

Lin showing up wearing The Nightman Cometh hoodie is pretty legit

“Don’t say stage-freeze, just do it!” Forever one of the greatest lines ever uttered on television.

Cormac accidentally making the best Danny DeVito pun by saying "he's the goat, man." - immediately had me thinking about Hercules and how much convincing it taken for him to do a musical number in that movie as the half man half goat.

Thank you for doing this episode justice!!! Charlie riffing on the piano several times, Cormac as a fantastic guest, the guys staying on track and covering almost every joke and important moment from the episode AND the live show... This was everything. I was so worried that adding Lin-Manuel would take their focus away from The Nightman Cometh - and I was so glad to be proven wrong! My favourite part (and it's not easy to pick one for this episode!) is from around 58:00 onwards, when Charlie, Cormac and LMM are just geeking out over chords and different styles of music while playing around on the piano and guitar and spontaneously singing. It was a excellent call to have 30 minutes of somewhat more organized discussion with Cormac out of the way before bringing in LMM, and then having another 45 minutes of chaotic discussion and excitement with a genuine fanboy. I really appreciate that LMM himself kept bringing the conversation back around to the episode and forced the guys to break down each song and almost every character moment. I didn't expect him to get the guys to open about their love for theatre and music and Sondheim, and it was wonderful to listen to this nerdy side of Glenn and especially Charlie come out! I was so worried this podcast episode wouldn't live up to our collective love for the Nightman Cometh and end up being a disappointment, so it feels amazing to know we're in safe hands with Rob, Charlie and Glenn, and Megan and the crew. Thanks for respecting us fans and creeps and giving us everything we didn't even know we wanted!

I love that Charlie's "keyboards just make sense to me" is taken directly from the real Charlie haha

You know the podcast is a home run when it's an hour and 20 minutes long and you watch it like a movie not stopping for anything!

I can't fathom the level of restraint Meg is utilizing to not totally dork-out as Charlie is warming up.

It's official, this is the best and most consistent podcast. Good job meg 52:40 also this is one the coolest things Rob has said imo, helping out artists and giving them real advice. Finding the sweet spot of releasing your work too often versus not enough is extremely difficult, especially today where releasing things is only a couple clicks away at all times. It's amazing to me when artists share their thoughts on the process. Thanks guys

Charlie’s piano improv needs to be a whole episode

I’m not frequent crier, but the end of night man cometh made me tear up the first time. Charlie comes across as so sweet and genuine it just gets me.

I'll say it once, I'll say it again. Please make an album of all the original songs Charlie has done on the show! I want a high quality recording of "Paddy's Pub" and "Spider in my Soul"! Or even that amazing Yankee Doodle cover from the beauty pageant. That beat goes hard I fucking love it

bringing Lin in as guest was genius and he’s very good at bringing it back around to talk about the episode

That impromptu song about the guy who lost his eyes, nose, and sense of feeling in the war is a work of art! Charlie downplays his ability, but he’s very musically talented

Charlie's piano + Glenn's "We did and we didn't" made my morning.

This is a prime example of exactly why this Podcast exists.

The Glenn Howerton sock game is on point in this episode.

gotta love Charlie's approach to music, keeping his absolute genius entirely on the unconscious level

Everything about this episode (tv, and podcast) is amazing! Charlie's intro, all the fanboying between the gang and Lin, Gladys is a treasure! Thank you everyone who made this happen!

THAT MUSICAL NEEDS TO HAPPEN!! Loved hearing Charlie and I hope the that blind, noseless guy from the woods finds his love again😂❤

What did I learn from this week’s podcast? Charlie Day is _way_ more like Charlie Kelly than I ever knew! He really is like a musically prodigy in that he didn’t study any of the technical side of musicals or music itself but still he just _does it_ naturally.

Charlie is by far the most Talented of the group. What a comedic treasure.

If that was a live recording, That’s amazing! Dee’s singing during the tiny boy song was really impressive

You should do an episode where Lin rips off Charlie and makes a rap version of Night-man and it becomes a huge hit. The gang would talk about it and Charlie realizes Lin’s new hit is his play but nobody can remember doing the play because you know. Then Charlie tries to sue Lin but has no proof but finds the original chicken scratch script and the lawyer guy says “you can do shit with this”. So he tries to find proof but nobody saved the script. Charlie tries to find the piano player but she died long ago but saved the sheet music in her old desk. The desk was bought by Lin at an estate sale. He finds the original sheet music and stole it. He uses it to write a super successful local theatre production that goes viral.

It's amazing how a lot of the interactions among the characters are based on real life. You see them act and you think: "that's an amazing choice to do that thing" and then you see them interact in real life and it's like: "it wasn' a choice, that's just how they act aroubd each other every day".

I know better pianists exist in the world but seriously I cannot get over how amazing charlie is. Don't get me wrong I've known how talented he is by watching sunny since the beginning but I would pay money just to see him live in concert for real. A great singing voice and amazing skills all around.

When you guys bring Danny to the podcast, please make a episode at least 12h long :) Love from Brasil!

Charlie said it sounded like Sondheim and literally began to play the intro to Into the Woods (despite being so loosely familiar with it). The musical ear on this man is stunning.

Rob and Glenn looking at Charlie like my parents were at my recital. 😂

I love that you showed Charlie practicing at the start of the pod. Made Lin’s reaction to him playing the piano that much better 👏👏 Great fan service. Ty ❤

umm i have always been mesmerized by Glenn's full character commitment as the boy/dayman. the weird hump dance in the duet, "You know what it is bitch" .... i mean, fucking incredible.

It doesn't matter if you know the names of the notes; the magic of music comes from a place deeper than words. I hope one day Charlie does create a full musical

Literally in tears at the beginning of this episode with Charlie on the piano. These guys are so talented it hurts.

I cannot believe that first song was improvised, Oh Charlie you beautiful genius !

Love seeing Charlie do his thing. Sunny musical episodes are the best!

I could listen to Charlie play the piano all day. The way he played Tiny Boy Little Boy at the beginning is just so beautiful which makes it even funnier thinking about the lyrics, wish I had sheet music to learn to play it that way even though it’s mainly just working with the chords. Absolutely loving the podcast and of course a huge fan of the show, you guys are my heroes!!

It’s funny that they’ve mentioned cormac a few times saying “idk why we haven’t had him back we kind of just forgot” then they barely ask him questions for 30 minutes and in walks LMM to take his spot. I feel bad for him lmao but it’s kind of funny even on the podcast he has the same outcome as his character. I assume he comes back in because he’s in the thumbnail with LMM but I really respect Lin saying it’s good they have the composer so he can ask him questions he seems very humble. This is my favorite one so far just because of the amount of love they’re all giving.

holy, waking up and grabbing a cup of coffee. Watching the snow falling outside, and listening to a man who has inspired me creatively in so many ways, just indulge in something so simple that he loves, genuinely almost made me cry. Thank you meg for leaving the beginning in. For some reason, even tho the song was silly, humming along in my head "Little boy, baby boy, tiny boy, i need you!" while charlie played the paino really made me feel something.

I really hope Lin introduces Charlie to the musical world. He’s so naturally gifted

Charlie needs to drop a CD with piano tracks and singing 10/10 would buy, this podcasts intro my favorite by far, love you guys

1:03:07 damn that harmony between Charlie and Glenn sounding pretty cool through headsets.

Glad we finally got to this beloved classic.

Im sure one day Charlie will write a full Broadway musical. I think it'll be a good one

Charlie is beaming and so self conscious in this episode, I love seeing how genuinely excited he is about talking about his process with a huge name in the music industry, you deserve it all charlie boy :)

Watching people talented as LMM geek out and have such profound respect for these guys work is incredible.

1h 20 minutes and i did not want this to stop. The best episode, twice.

charlie really deserves every ounce of his success and more. all of them do but charlie especially. holy fuck is he so amazingly talented.