Irish Muso Creates Seriously Amazing Drum Line For 'Pepe Silvia' Rant From 'It's Always Sunny'

16 March 2017 | 1:18 pm | Staff Writer

Well, this is ridiculous. Wonderful, but ridiculous

We're just going to take a stab in the dark and guess that you're all familiar with Charlie Day's iconic "Pepe Silvia" rant from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia's fourth-season episode Sweet Dee Has A Heart Attack.

If you are, you can straight-up skip this next bit, because explaining jokes is the worst.


In case you're not across it (gotta cover our bases here), the abridged edition is that Day's character, also named Charlie, and his friend, Mac (Rob McElhenney) take a joint job as mailroom clerks at a non-descript company to score health insurance. While Mac shmoozes his way around the office, Charlie is stuck with the ever-growing pile of mail.

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Left to his own devices, Charlie comes to believe that he has stumbled onto a deep conspiracy when he keeps getting mail for a "Pepe Silvia", who apparently doesn't exist, and it all spirals out from there as he is unable to locate anybody for whom the mail is intended.

It's a brilliant piece of comedic performance, and one of the show's standout moments, even now, after another eight seasons of madness from the beloved show.


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All of that is beside the point, and mere context for the actual reason we're here — and that reason is Irish drummer and multi-instrumentalist David Dockery.

Dockery has a bunch of videos on his YouTube channel of himself playing various songs on drums and guitar, but he's hit viral gold — via Reddit, Mashable, BroBible, Know Your Meme and more as the word has spread — with his latest effort: a drum line specifically synced to the verbal delivery of the 'Pepe Silvia' rant.

It's far and away his most-watched video, and he's even said that he'll "be doing more scenes as soon as I have time" — indicating he'll be choosing from a pool of It's Always Sunny, Arrested Development, Peep Show, Trailer Park Boys, The Office and Fawlty Towers — so this won't be the last we see from Dockery and his insane sense of rhythm.

Which is great news because, boy, is this… something. Magnificent. Ridiculous. Wonderful. Ludicrous. Amazing. All of these things. It is technical and inventive and impossibly cool.

Sure, it took him a few goes to get it right — "I probably attempted it for an hour or so," he said on the Reddit thread — and admitted that he'd even done some more takes afterwards "to be safe, but this was the one".

Yeah, he's not wrong. It is, quite literally, perfect. Just watch it and be happy the internet exists.