You can’t expect me to ignore this story.
With the exception of Turner Classic Movies, Ed O’Neill’s iconic and brilliant work as Al Bundy has brought more pleasure into my life than any other fixture of our popular culture — and he’s been doing so for going on 25 years now.
Of course he deserves a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and his recent success with “Modern Family” only confirms what I discovered over two decades ago: Ed O’Neill is a comic genius — one of the all-time television Greats, right up there with Redd Foxx, Lucille Ball, Johnny Carson, Phil Silvers, Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason.
Ed O’Neill’s new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame would seem to be in an appropriate spot: in front of a DSW shoe store on Hollywood Boulevard.
O’Neill used to play shoe salesman Al Bundy on the long-running sitcom “Married With Children.”
The 65-year-old O’Neill recently told The Vindicator, his hometown newspaper in Youngstown, Ohio, that he almost turned down the Walk of Fame star because he thought it was “kind of weird.” But his daughter helped him see it was a point of pride.
Had I known about this before I moved across the country, I would’ve delayed things in order to attend the ceremony today.
Can I get a “Whoa Ed”?