Sitcoms, Food and the Good Life with Phil Rosenthal
Phil Rosenthal joins Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes for a funny, insightful, and surprisingly heartfelt conversation about sitcoms, Hollywood, creative control, travel, food, and the stories behind Everybody Loves Raymond and Somebody Feed Phil. Phil shares how he fought to cast the right people…
Two moments from this episode
Doris Roberts And The Victim
Phil Rosenthal saw a hundred women for the role of the mother on Everybody Loves Raymond before Doris Roberts came in and read a scene drawn from a true story about a fruit-of-the-month gift. Early in rehearsals she worried the audience would turn on her for making trouble, and told Phil that the victim is the one who wins the Emmy. Her instinct was to cry whenever Peter Boyle got a shot in, so Phil gave her a note she could hold onto: everything you do comes from love.
“She even said to me, you know, the victim wins the Emmy.”
Max Forgets The Camera
For Exporting Raymond, Phil brought a crew to his parents' house so viewers could see where the parents on the show came from. The crew arrived with big cameras, ran a microphone up his mother's blouse and brought a boom pole into the living room. Within five minutes his parents were arguing as if nobody else was in the room.
“within five minutes they're fighting as if nobody's there”
Names dropped in this episode
13 names come up in this episode, in the order they are mentioned. Tap a timestamp to jump straight to that moment.
Lavar Burton
0:11American actor, director, and television host Wikipedia ↗
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Phil Rosenthal
0:23American television writer and producer who was the creator, writer, and executive producer of the CBS… Wikipedia ↗
Photo: Kevin Paul · CC BY 4.0
John Logan
0:39American playwright, screenwriter, and producer Wikipedia ↗
Photo: John Logan · CC BY-SA 3.0
Doris Roberts
3:59American actress and comedian whose career spanned seven decades of television and film Wikipedia ↗
Photo: Angela George · CC BY-SA 3.0
Elaine May
5:48American actress, comedian, writer, and director Wikipedia ↗
Lily Tomlin
5:55Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer Wikipedia ↗
Ed Weinberger
13:04Edwin B. "Ed." Weinberger is an American screenwriter and television producer Wikipedia ↗
Georgia Engel
17:11American actress and comedian Wikipedia ↗
Chris Elliot
17:22American actor, comedian and writer known for his surreal sense of humor Wikipedia ↗
Photo: Gage Skidmore · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bad Bunny
41:54Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio , known professionally as Bad Bunny, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer… Wikipedia ↗
Photo: Toglenn · CC BY-SA 4.0
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