If this news about one-time dream duo Two And A Half Men had come just a few days earlier, everyone would have thought it was an April Fool’s joke!
But at this point, all indications are that former brawlers Charlie Sheen and Chuck Lorre are going to do another series together – namely “How To Be A Bookie”, which will be made for the American streaming service Max.
While Charlie Sheen will only have a recurring supporting role, so don’t expect another Two And A Half Men-style sitcom, we still can’t quite believe the news even 15 days later!
Why not? Let’s recap what happened in recent months with Charlie Sheen on the set of the hit sitcom Two And A Half Men (or should have):
- In October 2010 Charlie Sheen first disassembled the furniture in his hotel room before the security forces called in found him stark naked – along with an apparently terrified porn actress who had locked herself in the bathroom. Damage: $7,000. Star Explanation: An alleged allergic reaction to a drug.
- After always being stressed due to his addiction escapades, Charlie Sheen raised the bar in February 2011 and In interviews with various news magazines (including on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s show), he launched into true hate tirades against his “Two And A Half Men” inventor Chuck Lorre: So Sheen described his producer as “earthworm”, “little stupid man” as well as “turd” and “charlatan”. He also consistently called Chuck Lorre by his birth name, Chaim Levine, which sounded more Jewish, which was taken by the general public as an anti-Semitic statement. Charlie Sheen was subsequently fired and Ashton Kutcher took his place on the show.
- When a reporter for an American morning magazine asked in March 2011 if he wasn’t concerned about his apparently rampant alcohol and drug use, Charlie Sheen coldly explained, “I’m just different. I’m in a completely different state, I have a different brain, another heart, you know… I have tiger blood!“
- Also in 2011, Charlie Sheen partied for 36 straight hours with a dozen prostitutes and loads of coke! Why it was over after three days without a break: Because Sheen finally was hospitalized with a hernia.
- In 2017, Charlie Sheen launched another hate tirade against Chuck Lorre on an Australian morning show. It was important for him to point out first that he was fired even though he would have made the studio $4 billion. He then went on to call Lorre a “ridiculous con artist” at first quite innocently before becoming much more florid and threw in words like “poorest son of a bitch” and “least goddamn heap of shit” to describe the writer-producer.
- Just last year Chuck Lorre tried to sell a script he wrote called Sex, Drugs And A Sitcom about his experience with Charlie Sheen on Two And A Half Men. If that had been successful, it would probably have resulted in a lot of dirty laundry again. At the very least, the question is whether it would have been possible to work together again.
After all, Chuck Lorre is not just anyone!
And you have to keep in mind: Chuck Lorre isn’t just some random series creator who absolutely needs Charlie Sheen to finally score another hit. But on the contrary: Chuck Lorre has been THE king of sitcoms for several years now! His more recent mega hits include “The Big Bang Theory”, “Young Sheldon” and “Mom”.
So why is Chuck Lorre going to work with Charlie Sheen again? Apparently he really has to believe that his former friend has actually turned a corner in recent years…
In from the new comedy series “How To Be A Bookie” By the way, it’s about a veteran Los Angeles bookmaker (played by Sebastian Maniscalco) whose business is threatened by the prospect of legalizing sports betting in the United States. In addition to Charlie Sheen, Omar J. Dorsey, Andrea Anders, Vanessa Ferlito, Jorge Garcia and Maxim Swinton also star in supporting roles. However, a start date for “How To Be A Bookie” has not yet been set.