Casella Furious Over Neil Patrick Harris' Quasi-Stardom

The Bronx, NYC, NY - Yesterday, on a New York City street corner for all who cared to hear, Max Casella expressed his outrage over his former co-star's recent success and his own contrasting shortcomings. Casella starred opposite Neil Patrick Harris in the early 90's smash hit "Doogie Howser, M.D." The show's premise was that Howser was an uber-genius, child-prodigy who scored a perfect SAT at age 6, was done with med school by 14, and performing emergency surgeries before losing his virginity (which, by the way, was heralded as a society-changing episode).

"We were on top of the world," says a recollective Cansella. "Girls would throw themselves at us every night when we'd hit the clubs. If it weren't for me, Doogie [Harris] would be doin' blow and livin' in his ma's basement in the Bronx. But nobody cares about that now," continued an apparently intoxicated Cansella. "Nobody cares that Wanda [another co-star] is knocked up in Queens and turnin' tricks now. Nobody cares about Ol' Vinne [himself]." Despite Cansella's rantings, his post-Doogie career has not been a complete void: his role in "Newsies" just after the sitcom that led him to stardom was cancelled was critically acclaimed, and he has found recent work on the hit "The Sopranos," while starring in "Sgt. Bilko" opposite Steve Martin in between.

But none of that is appeasing Cansella: "They didn't even put my (expletive) on the mother (expletive) box [for first season DVD of Doogie Howser]. That's some straight-up bull(expletive)."

"Meanwhile Neil's a smash hit for (expletive) 'Harold and Kumar' where he played him (expletive) self. That's not acting, that's playing yourself." Cansella was furthered enraged by the attention Patrick Harris is getting for his new CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother," being extra-broadcast during the recent wave of NCAA basketball games. "He couldn't call up a friend who needs work for that show?" asks Cansella, "he couldn't call up his ol' buddy Vincent DelPino? I got his ass out of so many jams. I took the heat in episode #27 when his parents came home early and found us havin' a party. And this is the thanks I get? And the damn producers would never once let ME close the show with my computer diary. Mine was so much better than his sissy-boy introspective (expletive), they don't even know."