Patrick Warburton to Play Lemony Snicket in Netflix's 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' Series

Patrick Warburton has been cast as Lemony Snicket on the upcoming Netflix series A Series of Unfortunate Events!

In the series, Snicket is “the harried and troubled writer-photographer who is falsely accused of felonies and is continuously hunted by police and his enemies – including the fire-starting side of secret organization Volunteer Fire Department (VFD),” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

A Series of Unfortunate Events follows the “tale of orphaned children Violet (Malina Weissman), Klaus (Louis Hynes) and Sunny Baudelaire, who find themselves in the villainous clutches of an evil uncle named Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris) who has designs on their family fortune.”

Patrick‘s new NBC comedy series Crowded will premiere on Tuesday (March 15) and he is rumored to reprise his role as comic book character The Tick in Amazon’s upcoming reboot.