Youre Lucky Youre Funny, Phil Rosenthal
Youre Lucky Youre Funny, Phil Rosenthal
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You're Lucky You're Funny
How Life Becomes a Sitcom

Author: Phil Rosenthal

Narrator: Phil Rosenthal

Unabridged: 6 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2006

Synopsis

This laugh-out-loud memoir takes readers backstage and inside the writers' room of one of America's best-loved shows. With more than 17 million viewers and more than seventy Emmy nominations—including two wins for best comedy—Everybody Loves Raymond reigned 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. You're Lucky You're Funny is an inspiration to aspiring creators of comedy and a must read for the show's millions of devoted fans.

About Phil Rosenthal

Phil Rosenthal is the creator and host of the Emmy-nominated Somebody Feed Phil. He also created the hit CBS comedy, Everybody Loves Raymond, which was nominated for over seventy Emmy awards, and won fifteen awards, including for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2003 and 2005. He is also the bestselling author of the book Somebody Feed Phil the Book. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress Monica Horan (who played Amy on Everybody Loves Raymond), and their two children. Visit him at PhilRosenthalWorld.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrea

Admittedly my typical response to "Everybody Loves Raymond" is sighing "not everybody" as I change the channel. I got this mp3 on the cheap and was just hoping to have a few laughs amid what was sure to be a name-dropping, big-shot-Hollywood memoir, filled with crazy party stories. I got my laughs. A......more

Goodreads review by Jeremy

I grew up watching Raymond on the dvds stored in the box shaped like their house with the actors' faces in the windows, and then watching all the episodes again with the actor/writer commentaries. So I'm not really sure what level of mature adult fandom makes this book a must read. For me it was a m......more

Goodreads review by Randee

I think Phil Rosenthal is a funny guy. There's no doubt in my mind had he not been writer and director of 'Everybody Loves Raymond', the show would not be as great a sitcom as it is. I've watched Phil in a documentary where he helps Russian TV get their version of 'Everybody Loves Raymond' up and ru......more

Goodreads review by Matt

A fun read, and interesting if you're into TV writing.......more

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