There have been a handful of loving tributes on the finish of “It is All the time Sunny in Philadelphia” episodes, devoted to extras like David Zdunich or relations of forged or crew who’ve handed away, however holy heck, this one hurts. On the finish of the season 17 finale, audiences have been handled to clips of Lynne Marie Stewart as Bonnie Kelly, the neurotic, alcholic mom of Charlie Kelly (Charlie Day), set to Willie Nelson’s music “You Had been All the time on My Thoughts,” together with the phrases “For our candy Lynne…/…We’ll love you perpetually.”
Stewart has been part of “It is All the time Sunny” for the reason that very first season, initially showing within the episode “Charlie Bought Molested” and asking Charlie to indicate her on a child doll the place he was (allegedly) touched inappropriately as a toddler by his faculty fitness center coach. Within the years since Mrs. Kelly has appeared quite a few occasions, and Stewart steals each scene she’s in.
Whereas Stewart seems on this episode as nicely (“The Golden Bachelor Dwell”), asserting to longtime paramour Frank (Danny DeVito) that she’s joined “The Golden Bachelor” competitors to “be a slut!” She died on the age of 78 only a few months after filming on the season wrapped, on February 21, 2025, abandoning an unbelievable tv legacy past even the always-hilarious Bonnie Kelly.
Earlier than she was Charlie’s mother, Lynne Marie Stewart performed Miss Yvonne on Pee-Wee’s Playhouse
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Stewart had an unbelievable profession in tv and flicks, beginning as a member of the comedy troupe The Groundlings alongside “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse” creator Paul Reubens and Saturday Evening Dwell star Phil Hartman within the Nineteen Seventies. Quickly she stacked up appearances as quite a lot of nurses on the traditional sitcom “M*A*S*H,” together with visitor spots on reveals like “Laverne & Shirley” and “The Golden Women,” however it was when she was forged as flirty magnificence queen Miss Yvonne on the youngsters’s sequence “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse” that she actually received the hearts of audiences in all places. As Miss Yvonne, Stewart was capable of ship among the present’s most grownup humor in cheeky methods, and he or she was pure comedic delight. Stewart was shut associates with Reubens till his personal dying from most cancers in 2023, and the 2 have been apparently devoted to fulfilling Make-A-Want Basis needs, visiting sick kids in hospitals and attending their memorials after they handed.
Information of Stewart’s passing introduced candy condolences from her longtime good friend Cassandra Peterson (higher often known as Elvira, Mistress of the Darkish), who posted a photograph of the 2 collectively on her Instagram together with a caption the learn partly:
“One of many kindest, sweetest, funniest girls who ever lived. The long-lasting Miss Yvonne of Pee-wee’s Playhouse: She’ll at all times be ‘probably the most lovely girl in Puppetland’.”
Peterson wasn’t the one one to put up a social media tribute to the late actor, nonetheless, as a number of of the “All the time Sunny” gang discovered their very own methods to publicly say goodbye. After 20 years of filming the FX comedy collectively, it feels like Stewart actually was an integral a part of the “Sunny” household.
Lynne Marie Stewart’s characters will dwell in our hearts perpetually
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As Bonnie Kelly, Stewart was one of many few really heat and (principally) variety characters within the entirety of “It is All the time Sunny in Philadelphia.” Alongside together with her roommate, Mac’s mother (Sandy Martin), Bonnie was at all times moving into some sort of bother that appeared atypical for a girl of her age on tv. Bonnie was fairly possible a intercourse employee to make ends meet whereas she was elevating younger Charlie, and he or she apparently slept with nearly each man in Eire, and truthfully? Good for her. Bonnie embraced her sexuality and did her greatest to be a loving, caring mom to Charlie regardless of her personal points, and he or she’s simply the most effective facet characters on the sequence.
The gang shared their emotions on social media, with Day posting “Thanks for the entire years of laughter” to Instagram, whereas Kaitlin Olson wrote a message that referred to as her “pure pleasure” on her Insta, and husband/sequence creator/Mac actor Rob Mac shared a heartfelt eulogy with a screenshot of Stewart laughing on the sequence that learn:
“That is how I am going to keep in mind her. Laughing hysterically and making everybody round her gentle up with pleasure. She was a real skilled however rather more, a buzzing beacon of all that’s good and proper on this planet. Lynn was a relentless reminder that we are able to chuckle and love our method via life and that sharing it with others in the entire level of what we do. Thanks Mrs Kelly. Thanks Miss Yvonne. Thanks Lynn. We’ll miss you perpetually.”
Lynne Marie Stewart was a raunchy, sensible comic who introduced unbelievable coronary heart to all the things she did, and he or she actually might be deeply missed. Relaxation in peace, you absolute legend.
