Jonas Brother plays a demanding rock star on the new ABC sitcom. By Aly Semigran Matthew Perry and Nick Jonas on “Mr. Sunshine” Photo: ABC Imagine a bizarro Nick Jonas: While he is still a wildly successful musician, he is now an egomaniacal jerk. During Wednesday night’s (February 16) episode of ABC’s “Mr. Sunshine,” Jonas played Eli Cutler, a singing sensation who — in addition to being a jelly-bean-eating “rock star” that has his own Saturday morning cartoon and is capable of packing an entire arena to capacity with screaming tweens — lacks any real sense of human decency (which he credits to a “lethal combination” of poor parenting and being exceedingly wealthy). The day of Eli’s show at Sunshine Stadium caught Ben (Matthew Perry) in a bad spot as his staffers, who forgot it’s his 10-year-anniversary on the job, scramble to participate in a fake contest in order to win the affections of their boss Crystal (Allison Janney) — and a golf cart. With his employees preoccupied, Ben is left with the task of catering to Eli’s every demand, which includes everything from getting him the first season of “Brothers & Sisters” on DVD and attaining the number of a hot female fan (or, as he so delicately put it, “a spicy enough crab roll”). In the end we find out Eli is actually racked with insecurities about his music (despite having wonderfully lame pop titles like “Baby, My Baby,” “No Place Like School” and “Dance, Dance, Dance…Dance”), and Ben saves the day by assuring the celeb (who had earlier referred to Perry’s character as a chubbier Larry King) that he was actually good at his job — a gesture that prompts Eli to dedicate a song to “a guy that works here.” It’s always fun to watch celebrities poke fun at themselves, even if it is an extreme version of him or herself, and it seems like Jonas let himself get lost in the role. The 18-year-old talked to MTV News about the experience of playing the spoiled star, telling us it was “really fun to stretch my personality a bit.” Jonas, who went toe-to-toe comedically with Perry in every scene, said of the experience, “It was so cool to work with him and soak up as much as I could.” How very un-Eli of him. Did you watch Nick Jonas’ appearance on “Mr. Sunshine”? What did you think? Related Videos MTV News Extended Play: Nick Jonas
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