“Then I went to college for a year, and I said, ‘I don’t know if I really want to do this (acting) for the rest of my life. I want to venture out and see what the world possibly has for me.’ I realized very quickly — I went to college and went, ‘Yeah ... not so much. This whole thing — no, I’m good. I’m going to call my agents and tell them to send me on auditions.’”

But he didn’t have to audition for this show. “I’m incredibly excited and honored to be host of ‘A Capitol Fourth’ once again,” he says. “It is going to be a great Fourth of July party, and we’re going to get everyone in our nation’s capital and all those watching at home on their feet dancing!”

Rousing patriotic favorites performed by the U.S. Army Band (“Pershing’s Own”) and the U.S. Army Herald Trumpets will cap off the musical finale and the eye-popping fireworks display, presented by the National Park Service, will rain over the National Mall and Memorial Parks and the D.C. skyline. The show will air on PBS and stream on YouTube and www.pbs.org/a-capitol-fourth on Thursday, July 4, at 8 p.m. ET.

King Krabs is back at 'Kamp'

Mr. Krabs will be back sponging off SpongeBob and all the other undersea denizens when Paramount+ presents the new season of “Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years” on July 10. All the animated favorites will assemble including Tom Kenny as the square-panted SpongeBob, Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick, Rodger Bumpass as Squidward, and, of course, Clancy Brown as Mr. Krabs.

While Brown has done extensive work voicing many projects, he is probably better known for his roles in “The Shawshank Redemption,” “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” “Billions” and “John Wick: Chapter 4.” Though he’s always been interested in acting, he comes from a family of politicians as both his dad and grandfather were congressmen.

“Politics and government was in the family. My dad was really a public servant. The politics of it was not like it is today. Back then it was really advise-and-consent government. It’s not a game that ever interested me,” he says.

“The public service part — you get those pangs of making the world better for everybody — but the politics of it is ugly and not fun and dominated by machines — the old boy networks. And I'm just not one of those dudes.

“I’ve always liked acting, you like to tell stories and be part of good storytelling mostly, and it’s fun to not be yourself every now and then.”

Brown found himself in jail for his first role.“They were doing a youth drama with this guy named Sean Penn, and it was a prison thing. And they needed a bunch of young men and couldn’t get real 16-year-olds, had to get somebody slightly older. So every guy my age auditioned for it, and I just got lucky and did it.”

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