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The creator and executive producer of Everybody Loves Raymond, on how to make a sitcom classic and keep laughing This laugh-out-loud memoir takes readers backstage and inside the writers room of one of Americas best-loved shows. With more than 17 million viewers and more than seventy Emmy nominationsincluding two wins for best comedyEverybody Loves Raymondreigned supreme in television comedy for almost a decade. Phil Rosenthal was there at the beginning. United by a shared lifetime of family dysfunction, he and Ray Romano found endless material to keep the show fresh and funny for its entire run. Alongside hilarious anecdotes from the series and his own career misadventures prior to working on the show, Rosenthal provides an enlightening and entertaining look at how sitcoms are written and characters developed. Youre Lucky Youre Funnyis an inspiration to aspiring creators of comedy and a must read for the shows millions of devoted fans.Review Quote
Rosenthals stories are universal, whether hes getting fired from a night security job at NYCs Metropolitan Musuem of Art after napping on a seventeenth-century bed or writing jokes for Bill Clinton and respectfully correcting the then presidents pronunciation of Yahtzee. Entertainment Weekly[An] extraordinary ratio of laughs per page. James L. Brooks Humorous and highly entertaining. Carl Reiner [A] memoir as funny as the sitcom. Publishers Weekly