What The Actor Who Played Sweets On Bones Has Been Doing Since The Show Ended

The fifth installment in the National Lampoon's Vacation film series that Daley and Goldstein wrote and then were invited to direct was ultimately released in 2015 (complete with a tiny cameo from Daley), and it proved to be a sea change in Daley's career to a life mostly behind the camera. Their feature film directorial debut didn't perform well, but it only put a temporary dent in Daley's pace of work. 

2016 ended up being extremely busy for him. While Daley netted a couple of small television roles on Fresh Off the Boat and voice work in an animated short entitled Bottom's Butte, those projects hid a truth that didn't emerge until 2017: He assisted on the writing team for Spider-Man: Homecoming. Going from earning a 27 percent critical rating on Vacation to helping reboot Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe was quite a turn, indeed. That same year, Daley and Goldstein were also hired to workshop a Warner Bros. spec script that once again ultimately turned into a directing gig for them. The project was the dark comedy Game Night, released in 2018 and starring Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams. Game Night was much better reviewed than Vacation, and wound up being one of the most surprising hits of 2018.

In 2019, Daley popped up on an episode of Drunk History – not as an inebriated narrative host, unfortunately, but as James. J. Andrews, a spy who hijacked a Confederate train for the Union during the Civil War.