How the creator behind  “Everybody Loves Raymond” found success—and realized his  dream job a decade later - video Dailymotion

How Phil Rosenthal, the creator behind  “Everybody Loves Raymond,” found success—and realized his  dream job a decade later.

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00:00I meet Ray Romano, so he had been struggling as a stand-up for 12 years trying to get on

00:04David Letterman, and then he gets on. And from that one six-minute appearance,

00:10Letterman says there should be a sitcom for that guy. So the way it works in Hollywood is

00:15writers are always looking for talent, and talent is always looking for writers.

00:19I got a meeting with him. I don't even think I was his first choice. I think

00:23he wanted somebody from Friends because that was the hot new show, and that didn't work out.

00:28And that's why I got the job creating the show for Ray. I went to school for theater. I thought

00:34I was going to be a comedic actor. Ten years in New York will beat that out of you. But I never

00:39gave up the dream. Some friends of mine and I wrote a show for ourselves to be in, and that

00:45was the transition. That, and at the same time, another friend of mine said, let's write a

00:50screenplay. And suddenly both those things, the play took off and the screenplay sold to HBO.

00:58So I transitioned to writing, and I moved to Hollywood, and I got jobs immediately working

01:04on sitcoms for people.