Ex-pro linebacker takes his talents to a TV comedy

to Jim,” but he said he has no plans to pursue an acting career.

He also said he wouldn’t do a realityTV show because people change their personalities when there are cameras and microphones on them.

Asked whether he’s watching “Very Cavallari” — the E network’s reality series featuring a former Bears teammate, quarterback Jay Cutler — Urlacher said, “Oh, yeah, I missed that one.”

Urlacher prefers shows about fishing — “Deadliest Catch,” “Wicked Tuna” and “Monster Fish” — and shows about Alaska (“Alaskan Bush People”).

“Anything that’s on Discovery or Nat Geo, I’m pretty much watching it. Oh, ‘Naked and Afraid.’ I do watch some kind of terrible shows on VH1 — ‘Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood,’ ‘Basketball Wives.’ Those are like my guilty pleasures. When I want to see some drama, I’ll watch those.”

Urlacher also recently bingewatched “Game of Thrones” and “Billions,” but he joked that he spends much of his time working as an Uber driver for his teenage son, who is involved in various activities. He was able to film Riggle’s series over four days in Malibu, California.

“I literally had a blast. Usually I don’t like doing stuff like that because I feel like it takes me out of my routine, because I’m a routine guy,” he said. “It was fun being around all those funny people all the time. And I usually dread the filming part because I’m not an actor; that’s not what I do. But it was fun because they made me feel comfortable.

“Even sometimes when I screwed up, they went with it. They just used the one I screwed up, so it was a lot of fun.”