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00:00Still here. I got nowhere else to go. Welcome everybody to part two of the
00:06Everybody Loves Raymond 30th anniversary reunion special. Some of you may be
00:11wondering why? Why part two? Money? No. No. No. We're not getting money. We got stuff
00:20you haven't seen. Stuff from behind the scenes. We got stuff we did at the
00:24reunion that we wanted to put in but didn't have enough time. And this is it.
00:28There's not gonna be a part three because I don't have another jacket. I'm gonna be
00:31honest with you. This is it. What if they didn't see part one? Oh you mean my family?
00:37No, of course. Everybody saw part one but in case you didn't I've always wanted to
00:42say this. Previously on part one. A little deeper. A little serious. Really? Previously.
00:51Previously. Previously. You do it. Previously on part one. Ray was somebody who
00:58wanted in your home. You wanted to be part of that family.
01:05I love you. I love you. Thank you. Please welcome Phil Rosenthal.
01:09I wrote one new joke. My twins were born here. Hi. And what I didn't know about Ray's family, I filled in with the personalities from my family.
01:21We can't go out and get our own fruit. I tried to tell them. Ladies and gentlemen, Patricia Heaton. Frank Darin, everybody.
01:28Here's Monica.
01:32Madeline and Sullivan Sweetin, are you here?
01:37During that first audition. I kissed him. And when she walked out, I go, that's the one.
01:44You know what?
01:45Who hyperventilates ain't alive.
01:51Everything you saw Peter do, my father did in real life without pants on.
01:59To Doris and Peter.
02:01You have this amazing iconic dance. I wanted to ask if we can recreate it right now and boogie down a little.
02:09All right. All right.
02:18What you don't see are all the people that really made the show with us.
02:25Thanks for the good life. Thank you, everybody.
02:30Thank you, everybody.
02:34So that was great. That was fun.
02:36And, you know, off the top of my head, one thing they didn't see was the first time that you and I actually walked out onto the set.
02:43Right. It was right before we started the taping.
02:46And there was a curtain in front of the set, so the audience couldn't see it yet.
02:49But they let Ray and I come out and take a look.
02:53And for the first time, we're seeing this set that, you know...
02:56We lived on.
02:57Nine years on.
02:58Yeah.
02:59And it's been 20 years.
03:00Wow.
03:05Wow.
03:06Down to the turkey.
03:11I mean, like no time has passed.
03:14Beautiful.
03:19What have we done?
03:20You know, it was emotional. I got emotional.
03:23Yeah, I know you did, too.
03:24I didn't, you didn't see me cry, but...
03:27Because, you know, I have an image.
03:28I'm going to be a Marvel hero.
03:30I hope.
03:32Great job.
03:33Yeah, yeah.
03:34How are you?
03:35Good sweetness. Thank you.
03:36Really good, really good.
03:38How are you?
03:39Great job.
03:40Oh, my goodness.
03:42This is where I got, this is where I got pushed up against.
03:45Yes?
03:46Yeah, no kidding.
03:47Listen, if I had PMS, and I'm not saying that I have, is that how you help me?
03:51By taping me?
03:52By telling me I have PMS?
03:53That doesn't help me.
03:54That doesn't help me.
03:57Well, what do you want me to do?
03:58I don't know what to do.
04:00Show me what to do.
04:01Just draw it out for me.
04:02Have you ever thought about giving me a hug?
04:04A hug?
04:06Beautiful.
04:07All right.
04:08This is amazing.
04:09I still smell Ray.
04:11This is, uh, not a bather.
04:12You look gorgeous.
04:15It's a lighting.
04:16You look gorgeous.
04:17Look how I look here.
04:18Oh, it's a little different.
04:19Is this better?
04:22This is incredible.
04:23Wow.
04:24I am, like, from all this.
04:25This is very nice.
04:27It's such a different vibe without Ray and Phil.
04:29You know, it's like, it feels free.
04:32It feels like we could try things.
04:35Uh, what is Ray, stuck under his wallet?
04:37Where?
04:38Where is he?
04:39I can't believe this.
04:40Hey, man.
04:41Good to see you.
04:42It's been a while.
04:43Yeah, it has.
04:44I thought you would grow.
04:46Remember you asked me, will I grow, Brad?
04:48I said, of course you will.
04:51Funniest guy in the world, in my opinion, Brad Garrett.
04:55At my expense.
04:57I would agree with that.
04:58By the way, the guy...
04:59I love it.
05:00I love it.
05:01The guy that he hugs, they live together now.
05:02Well, the truth is, he's never seen that guy before.
05:05That's his go-to, no matter who he sees.
05:07I know we talked about how the show started, but we didn't talk about how the title came about.
05:14Here's how that happened.
05:16To my chagrin.
05:17The title, Everybody Loves Raymond, is based on my real-life brother doing exactly what Brad does in the pilot.
05:25He sees an award that I get, and he goes...
05:28When did he get this?
05:30Oh, that's an award your brother got for his sports column.
05:34Never ends for Raymond.
05:36Oh, poor Robbie.
05:38Everybody loves Raymond.
05:41You used it as a working title, but you promised me we could change it when the time came.
05:46And when the time came, the network fell in love with the title, and here we are.
05:53Do you remember?
05:54We already had the cups made, so we had to do it.
05:57Before the pilot reached the network schedule, I get a call from Ray, and Ray said,
06:05Can you help me out with something?
06:07And this says more about me than about anybody else in this story.
06:11Of course I can help you.
06:13What do you need?
06:14I really thought I'm the guy.
06:16I can help.
06:17I can solve problems.
06:18What's the issue?
06:20Uh, the title of the show.
06:23What's the matter with the title of the show?
06:25It makes me self-conscious.
06:27What if the show fails?
06:28Then everybody in print is going to say,
06:31Not everybody loves Raymond.
06:34And I thought, you know what?
06:36You're exactly right.
06:37I know Les Moonves personally.
06:39He loves the project.
06:41He loves you.
06:42He loves me.
06:43Now the last part's not true.
06:46But I did know him.
06:47So I called Les Moonves.
06:49Hi Les, how's it going?
06:50Listen, I just talked to Ray Romano.
06:52Yeah.
06:53Fantastic.
06:54We love the show.
06:55You love the show.
06:56Everybody loves the show.
06:57Here's the problem.
06:58Ray would like to change the title.
07:00Les Moonves without missing a beat said, absolutely not.
07:04And I said, okay, great.
07:05Nice talking with you, Les.
07:06I had to call Ray back.
07:08Hey, yeah, Ray, get used to it.
07:10It's not going to be anything.
07:12But everybody loves Raymond.
07:14The one thing he asked for and I couldn't accomplish.
07:18I'm so sorry, Ray.
07:19I hate the name too.
07:22It's not too late, Dave.
07:24Come on.
07:25It's too late.
07:26That Raymond guy.
07:28That Raymond guy.
07:30We don't need love in it.
07:31We'll be right back with a lot more stuff.
07:34That's more of the cast on the set.
07:36More classic clips.
07:37We're going to see a lot of our guest cast that we love.
07:40Outtakes.
07:41Outtakes.
07:42Yeah.
07:43Everybody loves the outtakes.
07:44That's the title.
07:45No.
07:46No.
07:47I knew one day this would happen.
08:03The cast was extraordinary.
08:05Everyone was gently and carefully chosen.
08:08This is my notebook from the pilot of Everybody Loves Raymond.
08:12April 9th, 1996.
08:14This was the day Patty finally came in and she read with Ray and I wrote Bingo.
08:19I just want to say this one thing and we won't have to discuss it anymore.
08:23You're not blowing this for me, pal.
08:26So you got to just be as creative as you possibly could because you knew you had these home run hitters making it great.
08:37To me, it was like all in the family.
08:38It was the same kind of brilliant acting and brilliant timing.
08:42I mean, everyone seemed so in tune to each other.
08:46Get your hand out of my pants!
08:49You'd see it for the first time at the table read, which is pure joy.
08:53You're like, here's what we wrote.
08:55And then you watch it come alive and you're like, oh my, what Brad Garrett just added to this?
08:59Did not see that coming.
09:06Well, Brad, I used to call him the human blow.
09:10You know, the blow to the scene is the final scene and the scene is supposed to get a laugh.
09:13And you could put anything in Brad's mouth.
09:17You just have Brad say a word.
09:19Pretzel?
09:22Laugh.
09:23Get a big laugh.
09:24Okay, this is Doris and Brad.
09:26And this is March 18th.
09:28Doris was on my original list and I had tried to get her in the door from day one.
09:32But I could not get her in the room.
09:34And finally, when she did come, she stopped me at the door and she grabbed my wrist.
09:40Then she said, listen to me, if I don't get this role, I'm tearing up my SAG card.
09:45And I said, okay, well, that's a lot of pressure.
09:48But she was right.
09:49I mean, she knew she was right for it.
09:51We knew she was right for it.
09:52And that was that.
09:54Okay, go golfing.
09:55Have a good time.
10:01To write for such sure-footed actors is just a privilege.
10:06The wife in a sitcom is very, very important.
10:10You want to find someone who's sweet and tough and vulnerable and good looking and so many things.
10:17People always think the show revolved around Raymond.
10:21But I think in reality, it revolved around Patty.
10:24She's kind of the voice of reason in the world.
10:27And you're almost seeing the show through her eyes.
10:30Yes.
10:31Right?
10:32Yes.
10:33I have to do everything around this house.
10:34If I don't do it, it doesn't get done.
10:36Well, that's because, now take it easy, that's how it's supposed to be.
10:50That's how it's supposed to be?
10:53I said take it easy.
10:56Okay, now let me tell you something.
10:59If I'm the one that has to do the laundry, why should I be the one to drag that thing upstairs, huh?
11:03Isn't the man supposed to carry stuff?
11:05Isn't that the man-y thing to do?
11:10Isn't that how that's supposed to be?
11:14Obviously, you spend a lot more time thinking about this than I have.
11:17The show is so evergreen because from generation to generation, new, young, married people are watching it and completely relating to it.
11:27And it doesn't feel dated because it's this eternal thing that everybody is dealing with.
11:34And I think the reason the show is so internationally renowned because I was just doing some charity work in Uganda.
11:43Wow.
11:44And a Ugandan fellow and I were driving along and he started telling me how bummed he was because that weekend he had to go to a wedding from someone that his wife worked with.
11:54And he didn't know anybody there and he really didn't want to go.
11:57And I said, even in Uganda, marriage is exactly the same, right?
12:03You travel a lot.
12:06In real life, Ray's older brother is shorter than him.
12:10Yes.
12:11And I thought, oh, how great.
12:13One of the reasons he's jealous is that he's shorter than his younger brother.
12:18So we were only looking for short people.
12:22I was in New York during that casting and I got a phone call from one of the producers and they said, we found the brother.
12:29We found Brad Garrett.
12:30And I was a comic.
12:31So I had to kiss you, but Brad didn't.
12:34Yeah.
12:35Oh, he did.
12:36Oh, he did.
12:37But you're better.
12:38You're a better kisser.
12:40They told me Brad Garrett.
12:41All I remember from Brad Garrett was he had won the first season of Star Search.
12:47It's kind of neat when you're tall.
12:48I've always been very large.
12:49As a matter of fact, my mom is still in traction from the birth.
12:53I'm talking to big kid.
12:54The doctor had to deliver me like this.
12:56It was, all right, bring him back now.
12:58I remember because of the comic, I'm watching this six foot eight guy and he's telling me, yeah, we found your brother.
13:08And I'm like, you found two of them.
13:10You found two of my brothers.
13:12And we were, I was like, how is that going to work?
13:16And this is one of the beauties of how you've got to get lucky in this.
13:20We didn't really write that guy.
13:23Yeah.
13:24What he brought to it.
13:25Yeah.
13:26Was his own thing, you know?
13:27Are you saying that I don't love my mother?
13:29Not as much as me.
13:33You take it for granted.
13:35But me, I cherish every ounce of affection that woman gives me because I have to fight for it like a dirty dog in the street.
13:43But you, you don't even have to try.
13:51She makes it so easy for you.
13:55You're just a fat kid sitting with his mouth open at the end of a chocolate assembly line.
14:04You know, we see them periodically, but we don't see everybody together.
14:08Yeah.
14:09That was what was cool about the whole thing.
14:10And I loved when we all got to sit around the kitchen table on the set and go through our favorite moments.
14:15Yeah.
14:16There are a lot of them.
14:17So when we come back, here's some more.
14:23How about we go upstairs and enjoy the rest of today?
14:28Okay.
14:31Well, the wallpaper show, I said, you know, the neighbor across the street from us used to routinely back his car out of his driveway
14:38and smash into my parents' cars.
14:40And I said, yeah, so maybe we could do that where Frank and Marie back into the car and Phil goes, no, no.
14:45This is the Barones.
14:47Can you hear that?
14:48Can you hear that?
14:53In true Raymond fashion, the biggest laughs did not come from any joke.
14:56It was the faces of Darce and Peter getting out of the car.
14:59At that time, it sort of encapsulated everything that the series was about, how intrusive the parents had become.
15:04So I thought the show was sort of at its best in that moment.
15:08Oh, and Deborah, I've run out of things to put them in, so I came to get the canister.
15:14What canister?
15:15My canister with the blue horses around the edge.
15:17Oh, yeah, I brought that back.
15:18Really?
15:19Yeah.
15:20The canister, it was written by a friend of mine named David Regal, and he wanted to run some Raymond ideas about me just to do a spec script.
15:27The first one he tells me about is this dispute in his family between a mother and a daughter-in-law about a cookie canister that the mother-in-law claimed had never been returned.
15:34And I immediately said, forget your spec script.
15:35I think we could do this.
15:36Oh, I'm sorry, Deborah.
15:37I mean, now she sees.
15:38She's not always right.
15:39Is this what grandma was looking for?
15:40Oh!
15:41Oh!
15:42Oh!
15:43Oh!
15:44Oh!
15:45Oh!
15:46Oh!
15:47Oh!
15:48Oh!
15:49Oh!
15:50Oh!
15:51Oh!
15:52Oh!
15:53Oh!
15:54Oh!
15:55Oh!
15:56Oh!
15:57Oh!
15:58Oh!
15:59Oh!
16:00Oh!
16:01Oh!
16:02Oh!
16:03Oh!
16:04Oh!
16:05It was a great episode because it was a good Deborah episode.
16:08I got an apology.
16:10Okay, do you have any idea what that means?
16:13She apologized to me.
16:15Patty had to play three things at once.
16:17She had to play surprise that Marie took the fall, and then gratitude, and then convince
16:24everybody that she's mad at Marie, even though she's actually really grateful that Marie
16:28let her off the hook at that moment.
16:30Happy Easter, Raven.
16:33The fun of that, the whole second act, is this farce about the canister.
16:38Wait a minute!
16:39Happy Easter!
16:40My friend!
16:41Thank you!
16:42Yeah!
16:43Please, Frank, don't say anything.
16:44If she finds out I had this thing.
16:45You're in big trouble, lady.
16:47And that episode won her her second Emmy.
16:50It was just one little problem.
16:52What?
16:53It's really not a problem.
16:54She didn't even use the word problem.
16:55It's just a minor, minor, minor thing.
16:57All right, what?
16:58What?
16:59What is it?
17:00She thinks I'm you.
17:01There was a Steve Scrovan episode called Ray Bird.
17:07She just assumes that I'm Ray Barone from New York Newsday.
17:12Robert is mistaken for Ray when he meets a woman in a bar, and they have an encounter,
17:17and Ray at one point says, wait a minute, but if she's a fan of mine, she must know I'm married.
17:22If she knows my writing, then she must know I have a wife.
17:25Had.
17:26Had a wife.
17:28You killed Deborah?
17:29Had to be done.
17:31This woman shows up at the door, and the reason I love this with Joy is here's a wife, and here's a girl that is cheating on his wife.
17:43And you're like, this is going to explode.
17:45Wait, how do you know Ray?
17:47We met at a bar.
17:50Ray and I are kind of dating.
17:58Is there a problem?
18:00Um, no, there's no problem.
18:02I'm just surprised that my husband has time to date.
18:06You know, and it's like, wow, what an opposite reaction that you're expecting.
18:21I come to fix sprinkler.
18:23Isn't it great to see the writers?
18:28You know, we usually keep them in a hole, so it's nice to see them.
18:32We throw food in.
18:33The happiest place on earth was that writer's room.
18:36As a comedian, you don't laugh out loud yourself a lot.
18:38I've never laughed more than in that room with you guys.
18:41Me too.
18:42Yeah, it was a magic place.
18:43And you know, the magic place on stage was around the kitchen table, which is why it was great when we all sat around there talking about our memories and our favorite moments.
18:53We got more of that, I'm sure.
18:55Give a look.
18:56All right, let's do a fast, like a, what do they call it? A lightning round.
18:59Lightning round.
19:00Favorite scenes or moments?
19:01Uh, no fat with the tofu turkey.
19:04Tofu turkey.
19:05We are all eating some.
19:10Swallow it.
19:35Go ahead, Robert.
19:55Actually, I think it's very tasty.
19:58You just have to make an adjustment.
20:00Right, Deborah?
20:04Kind of starts out with an aftertaste, doesn't it?
20:13Madeline, do you have one?
20:14Yeah, I think my favorite is another Peter one.
20:18He was so incredible to work with.
20:20But my favorite was Grandpa Steeles.
20:34Okay, uh, so Ali, uh, what did the Mexican fire chief name his two sons?
20:51Jose and Hose B.
20:53Hey, listen.
20:56Okay, I believe it.
21:10Isn't that so funny?
21:12How was all this?
21:13When we got, uh, stuck inside, when it was, the electricity went out, I got to dance with Peter.
21:19I got to dance with Peter.
21:30Don't worry about a thing, Amy, you're in good hands.
21:33This is wonderful, Frank.
21:35Okay, okay, it's my turn again.
21:36Please, Marie, she's waited her whole life for this.
21:41Another great one was, I loved, uh, when Deborah was giving birth and we were in the, uh, in the cop car.
21:49All right, I'm gonna need something to wrap the baby in, Raymond.
22:10Give me your shirt.
22:11No, no, no, no.
22:12Punch him and take that shirt, Robert ā
22:14All right, all right, all right!
22:16Man, this is not right!
22:18No, Sheldon, look at thy brother's wife there.
22:21I don't think I'm seeing what I'm supposed to be seeing.
22:24What else are you supposed to see?
22:26A head!
22:35You know, maybe it's not hurting so much anymore.
22:40Will you stop looking, then? Stop looking!
22:48I have a quick one.
22:58Phil and I, both our fathers have made little appearances on the show.
23:04Neither one of them is an actor.
23:06We're doing your bachelor party.
23:07Oh, my God.
23:08And we go to the Elks Lodge or whatever it is,
23:10and they're the guys that run the Elks Lodge,
23:12and I tell them to get a banner that says,
23:15Congratulations, Robert.
23:16Robert, and they mess it up,
23:18and they have, like, two lines each,
23:20and they crush it on these two lines
23:22with no inflection at all.
23:26Hey, hey, hey!
23:28What the hell is this?
23:32What's the banner you ordered?
23:34Well, it's supposed to say,
23:35Congratulations, Robert!
23:37I think on the phone you said,
23:39Woody.
23:39Woody.
23:45No!
23:46No!
23:47Robert!
23:48Congratulations, Robert!
23:49I can't use this!
23:51Well, we've got some balloons,
23:53but we can't blow them up.
24:01One of the joys of my life
24:03is having our dads on the show.
24:04Max and Albert.
24:08They live on television.
24:10If you like that, you know,
24:15every episode is streaming on Paramount+.
24:17You can see it uncut without commercials.
24:20Oh, I got to get a TV.
24:23Yeah.
24:24My wife has strict rules.
24:26Hey, but seriously, though,
24:28one of my favorite things was the Q&A with the audience,
24:30and we had a bunch of that.
24:32This is great, because we can show more of it.
24:35When we come back.
24:35Yeah.
24:39My question is,
24:40was anyone hurt in any scene with physical comedy?
24:44Yes.
24:45This young man.
24:46I think all of us might have been hurt a little bit.
24:47No, but you actually stopped tape.
24:49Yeah, we did a scene where I went to your apartment.
24:53You were a young...
24:54I mean, you were a single man then.
24:56And I was like,
24:57wanted to hang out with you,
24:58because there's all these single women.
25:00I go, what do you got here?
25:01Look at you, you got cheese and crackers.
25:03And I cut the cheese,
25:04and I cut my finger,
25:05and I had to go get stitches,
25:07and the audience stuck around.
25:10And I came back like an hour later.
25:12And they had recast you.
25:14Yeah.
25:15No, I remember telling you,
25:17I did a stupid joke.
25:18I go, well, thank you for sticking around.
25:19I'll let you know what happened.
25:20I went there,
25:20they sewed it up,
25:21and they took a testicle.
25:23I don't know what the...
25:24But, and then,
25:28we got a big laugh,
25:29because then we did the scene again.
25:30And I start, and I go,
25:32oh, you got some cheese here?
25:33I go, eh, I don't want any cheese like that.
25:35Yeah.
25:35Yeah, yeah, yeah.
25:36I got hurt one time
25:38actually running down the stairs.
25:40I told you not to run.
25:43I ran down the stairs.
25:44I hit my head on the coffee table.
25:46Oh, I didn't know this.
25:47But they were...
25:47Yeah, but they were panning over,
25:49over to the kitchen.
25:50Oh.
25:50So I held the cry in
25:52until they yelled cut.
25:55And then, and then,
25:56you know,
25:58my mom tells me that story.
26:00I don't remember it.
26:00And that's why Madeline owns the entire show.
26:05Hi, my question was,
26:07do you guys have any,
26:09like, pre- or post-rituals
26:12from your show?
26:12Just the sacrifices.
26:17But Marie made,
26:19she made soup a lot, Doris.
26:21She made soup in her dressing room,
26:23wouldn't she?
26:24She'd make, like,
26:24these big pots of soup.
26:25Yeah.
26:26And we would always do a speed-through
26:28before taping
26:29where we would just sit together
26:31on couches and chairs
26:32and we'd just say our lines
26:33really, really quickly.
26:34And they're usually in the makeup room.
26:36In the makeup chairs
26:37while we were getting touched up.
26:38And then afterwards,
26:39we all went over to,
26:41what was the bar?
26:42Columbia Bar and Grill.
26:42That's it.
26:43That's it, Columbia Bar.
26:44Columbia Bar and Grill.
26:45Sunset and Gower.
26:46Yes.
26:46Yeah, with all the
26:47laugh-out-loud moments
26:48from the show,
26:49I'm just wondering
26:50if there are scenes
26:51you can remember
26:51that it was hardest for you
26:53not to break character.
26:54Who would break?
26:56I had one where you can see me laugh.
26:57You can see it on the tape.
26:58We were just talking about it.
27:00It was the funeral.
27:01We were at the funeral
27:02for the neighbor who died.
27:03Yes.
27:03And if you look up stage,
27:06you can see me standing
27:07with Robert
27:08at the funeral
27:09next to the casket
27:10and pretending I'm crying
27:12but I'm laughing
27:12and you can tell.
27:14Because he was being funny.
27:16There's no one in there.
27:19Anything he does.
27:20I was dying.
27:22Hi.
27:22My question's
27:23for Patricia and Ray.
27:25Patricia,
27:25when you were coming
27:26down the stairs
27:27I saw you look
27:27at the luggage.
27:29I recently got married
27:30and this is a constant battle
27:32in my household as well.
27:34So for your TV marriage
27:36and my real marriage
27:37can you guys finally resolve this
27:39and one of you move the luggage?
27:42Now?
27:43Right now.
27:45I can have my assistant move it.
27:54I don't have an assistant.
27:56No, you made me move it.
27:57I'm not that guy.
27:58I keep it real.
28:00Real with me.
28:01You know,
28:01one of the things
28:02that people said
28:03after the part one
28:04was where was the guest cast?
28:06Where was Stefania?
28:07Where's Gianni?
28:08Well, when we come back,
28:09we'll find out.
28:10Yes?
28:16Hey, got your futon delivery.
28:17Robert, have you met
28:18Amy's brother, Peter?
28:19Never had the pleasure.
28:22We need a new captain.
28:23Who wants the job?
28:24Hey, I do.
28:26That ain't funny.
28:27Hey, you don't talk
28:28when we on the radio.
28:29Now sit back.
28:30Stefania!
28:32Gotta learn how to chill out a little.
28:34What's with this guy?
28:35He's my father.
28:39People are always wondering,
28:40how did you get on the show?
28:42Well, I am an actor.
28:43No, no, no, no, no, no.
28:44You.
28:44I'm talking about you.
28:46You, Andy Kindler.
28:47The guy goes,
28:47hey, hey, hey, hey.
28:48Hey, what do you got going in there?
28:53I remember the moment
28:55I got the gig.
28:56I had just quit my job
28:57two weeks prior
28:58as a legal secretary.
28:59And I was like,
28:59this is it.
29:00Sink or swim.
29:01And I got the audition
29:02and I didn't have a car
29:03because they repossessed my car.
29:04So I had to take the bus
29:06all the way to Koufax Studio
29:07for the audition.
29:08And my agent told me
29:10that the role was for Queen Latifah.
29:13Give me the usual.
29:14I'm going to the ladies' room.
29:15I said, Lord,
29:16like, I don't want her legs broken,
29:18but let her book something else
29:19because I need this job.
29:20Why are we taking a break?
29:22What are we taking a break from?
29:25How about a break from your mouth?
29:27I walked in
29:28and I saw Ray Romano
29:30and he smiled at me
29:31and I thought that was a really good sign.
29:33She seems nice.
29:35Well, Ray and I met in the 80s
29:37doing stand-up.
29:38I had just moved out here
29:39and I got a phone call.
29:42It was Ray.
29:43I said,
29:44I'm a man for all you
29:45I got a cable guy.
29:47And he was like
29:48almost afraid to ask me
29:50to, you know what I mean?
29:51It's like,
29:51I got a,
29:51you think you would want,
29:52I said,
29:53Ray, are you kidding me?
29:54Of course I would do it.
29:55You know?
29:56You're the futon guy.
29:57You're the assistant futon guy.
30:01I've seen Stefania.
30:02She's nothing.
30:04You are beautiful.
30:05Yeah.
30:07Hello, Debra.
30:09Oh, hello.
30:09I am Stefania.
30:10I was so nervous
30:14to go in
30:15and audition for Ray.
30:17They'd already won
30:17everything in the world.
30:19It was already a top show.
30:21Brad was making me laugh
30:22constantly.
30:23So my audition was terrible.
30:28They called two weeks later.
30:29Guess what?
30:30You got it.
30:30You're going to Italy.
30:31They couldn't find the Italian girl
30:33that they wanted in Italy.
30:34The frowny, frowny face.
30:36He's always,
30:37I don't like,
30:38I don't want,
30:39I don't think.
30:41It is annoying.
30:46I want to be able to call you guys,
30:49both of you,
30:52brother man.
30:53They embraced me
30:55with open arms,
30:56but I was a little nervous
30:58about joining.
30:59These are just amazing actors
31:01with amazing timing
31:03putting on a one-act play.
31:05I didn't think
31:06I would be able to,
31:07you know,
31:07handle that
31:08because I don't consider myself
31:09an actor.
31:10And if you've seen my work,
31:10I think you'd agree.
31:12Now, if you'll excuse me,
31:13Miss Puss and I
31:14have some cocoa on the stove.
31:19My favorite moment
31:20being on
31:20Everybody Loves Raymond
31:21was going to the club,
31:23with Brad Garrett.
31:25Being at a club
31:26with all of these
31:26black people
31:27in the club
31:28and him having to dance,
31:29that was the one time
31:30he got to do the robot.
31:31He did it so well.
31:33They wrote me really,
31:34really wonderful lines.
31:35What?
31:36What does he say?
31:36Sit back!
31:37I'm not going to tell you again!
31:40You just lost your tip.
31:43And then I got to kiss
31:44Christine Cavanaugh.
31:46I've never kissed my wife
31:47because we feel like
31:48it's just too much aggravation.
31:51When Ray and Deborah meet,
31:53What are you doing?
31:53What are you doing?
31:54Nothing.
31:55Hey, how are you?
31:57He's hitting on her
31:59and flopping terribly, right?
32:02So maybe I'll see you there sometime.
32:03Where?
32:04China Star.
32:05Oh, well, yeah.
32:06I'll probably be there
32:07for lunch tomorrow.
32:09Actually, I just said Chinese today.
32:10And my line was just,
32:15as I'm walking away,
32:17I turn away and, you know,
32:17my line was,
32:19oh, my God.
32:21And it just got the biggest laugh.
32:24Things like that,
32:25I mean, they just make you feel so good.
32:27I told you I was going to be a writer, right?
32:29Yeah.
32:29Yeah.
32:31Yeah.
32:32What a way with words.
32:35Literally, I will be at the airport
32:37and somebody will go,
32:38Sergeant Judy!
32:39And I turn around,
32:40like, did somebody call my name?
32:42Every time I would go back to New York,
32:44Johnny, Johnny, Johnny!
32:47Hey, what's the matter?
32:48You can't put a stove in?
32:49You know?
32:53For my parents,
32:54it was huge.
32:56My parents started getting free food everywhere
32:58because they were Stefania's parents.
33:00When I would go back
33:01to JFK International Airport,
33:04I was a hero during the show.
33:05All I had to do was stand
33:06on a revolving platform
33:08and sold DVDs.
33:09I'm really, really proud
33:11to be part of this show.
33:12It's television history.
33:14Okay, so a little fun fact
33:15is John Manfalotti...
33:16Yeah.
33:17...and I met
33:17doing stand-up
33:19at the Improv in New York
33:2035 years ago.
33:22Wow.
33:22And he still talks to you?
33:24Once in a while,
33:24when he needs money.
33:25When we come back,
33:28everybody loves outtakes.
33:30See, that's the title.
33:31Better title.
33:32You're right.
33:35I am going to give you
33:36the secret to marital bliss.
33:39After you give it to him,
33:40why don't you let me in on it?
33:42We knew we had something special.
33:44We also knew we were lucky as hell.
33:46There is that lightning
33:50in a bottle feel
33:51with great shows.
33:52Will you stop
33:53your killing Christmas?
33:55Oh, my God.
33:57And by the way,
33:58sometimes the noodles
33:59in your lasagna
34:00are overcooked.
34:01Oh!
34:03Everyone else, Raymond,
34:04has stood the test time
34:05and will stay in the test time
34:06because these situations
34:08are so relatable still.
34:10Ow!
34:11Ow!
34:11Great, it's caught in my hair.
34:12Oh, easy.
34:13Well, don't call.
34:13What are you calling out?
34:15No, no, no, no, no, no.
34:16Love is enough of everybody.
34:17It's just what families are.
34:19A universal family life.
34:22It's fine with me
34:23if you're gay, dear.
34:26Everyone's mother
34:27is slightly overbearing
34:28and everyone's mother meddles
34:30and everyone's mother
34:31asks an uncomfortable question.
34:33You love him.
34:34You hate him.
34:35He disgusts you.
34:35Look how he eats.
34:37I think the show works today
34:39because it actually
34:40comes from the heart.
34:41How do you get along
34:42with your spouse?
34:43How do you get along
34:43with your in-laws?
34:44You know, what do you do
34:45with the sibling rivalry?
34:46These are problems
34:47that aren't going away.
34:49Oh, no.
34:50And so it's just resolving
34:51all these issues
34:52within this prison of family.
34:55Oh, I think it's worked out
34:56very well.
34:58Heh, heh, heh, heh.
34:59That's so different
35:00from who you really are.
35:02Caring for each other,
35:04teaching each other,
35:05loving each other,
35:06being mad at each other,
35:07that doesn't change.
35:09Gobble, gobble, gobble.
35:10Gobble, gobble, gobble.
35:12Yeah.
35:12All right, here's
35:16one of our favorite things.
35:17Tell the people
35:18how we would do
35:19these second takes
35:20on Shoot Night.
35:21About an hour before
35:22we shot,
35:23I would go to my dressing room
35:25with about two other writers
35:26and we would look at
35:27anything that was interchangeable,
35:29a punchline that
35:30we could put a new line in
35:31or a new action in
35:32without telling the cast.
35:34Right.
35:34And it didn't affect the story.
35:35Right.
35:35And it'd be new for the audience
35:37because the audience
35:37is seeing it three, four times
35:38so it's something new.
35:40And so that was always fun.
35:41And then there were outtakes.
35:43Outtakes are different
35:43from second takes.
35:45Outtakes just happen
35:45on the cuff.
35:46Usually mistake.
35:47Or Brad likes to insult me.
35:50That kind of thing.
35:51Those were fun.
35:52And deserved.
35:54I hope she's not there tonight,
35:56really.
35:57She was such a nice girl.
35:59I was such an idiot.
35:59That's your line, Emmy winner.
36:15Could it not be Gail?
36:17Because I have a superior
36:18named Gail.
36:20Look, all right.
36:20Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
36:30What's the matter, Raymond?
36:31Too many scenes?
36:39Oh, this is wonderful.
36:44Oh, I love this.
36:45Okay, here we go.
36:49This is it.
36:52What, Ray?
36:53Nothing.
36:57Only good thing in this room
36:59my penis is going to look huge.
37:00I'm trying to read him
37:17a book once in a while.
37:17Oh, reading.
37:18That's your answer
37:19for everything, right?
37:19Do you even know
37:20how to read, Ray?
37:20Oh, I read.
37:21I dance.
37:21All right, all right, all right.
37:24Here, save your marriage.
37:27Emmy's brother, Russell,
37:28he owns a comic book shop.
37:29He's got cards there.
37:31Russell's comic, vintage,
37:33Russell's vintage comics.
37:35You should read more.
37:36Russell's.
37:46Come on, give her what she's like.
37:48Come on, tell her.
37:49I want you to tell her.
37:50It's time to rise up.
37:52Cast off ye shackles.
37:55We're getting a lot of spit
37:57on us over here, Ray.
37:59Is that you crying in there?
38:09Frank, it's all right, Robbie.
38:12You're never too big to cry.
38:13But you are too big
38:14for my underwear.
38:15It's all right, Robbie.
38:31You're never too big to cry.
38:33That could be the title
38:34to your book.
38:34Oh, Frank, it's all right, Robbie.
38:46You're never too big to cry.
38:48But the bedwetting's got to stop.
38:58It's all right, Robbie.
38:59You're never too big to cry.
39:02Doo-dah.
39:03Doo-dah.
39:11Hey, how's it going?
39:13All right.
39:18Can I just get you to sign for this?
39:19I'm going to need that pen back.
39:37Thanks a lot.
39:37Have a nice day.
39:38All right.
39:38All right.
39:43What'd you get?
39:43That's scumbag.
40:04That's scumbag.
40:05That prick.
40:27I'm going to talk to you, man.
40:57Hey, uh, you know what?
41:09Why don't you guys go without me?
41:10Because I'm really not feeling good here.
41:12Okay.
41:13Well, come on, Deborah.
41:13Let's go.
41:14Okay.
41:18What's the matter, Ray?
41:18You have, like, a sore throat or something?
41:19I got it.
41:20It's probably...
41:20Get in the car.
41:23Roger!
41:23Roger!
41:24Go!
41:24Go!
41:25Go!
41:26What's the matter, Ray?
41:27Do you feel like you have a sore throat or something?
41:29I think it might be in my throat.
41:30Oh!
41:31Yes!
41:32Yes!
41:33Robert!
41:34Robert!
41:35Robert!
41:35Robert!
41:35Robert!
41:39Well, you know, I was a little skeptical.
41:42Do we need a part two?
41:43And I think we did need it.
41:44We did.
41:45Because that was fun to see all that.
41:46It was very nice.
41:47We might need a part three.
41:48Don't get greedy, Raymond.
41:49Just show...
41:50Show us putting makeup on.
41:52But anyway, what else do we want to say?
41:56Paramount Plus, you can watch them all.
41:57Watch them all without commercials.
41:59All the shows.
42:00And we want to say happy holidays to the people.
42:02Right?
42:02Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, happy Kwanzaa.
42:05Whatever you like.
42:05Happy New Year, happy everything.
42:07Yes.
42:07Although when they rerun this, that's going to look stupid.
42:09You're going to look stupid for saying that.
42:11Maybe you look stupid for saying that.
42:12No, it's going to be March, and you're saying happy holidays.
42:14You can still.
42:15People like holidays.
42:16There's still holidays all year round.
42:17I'm on.
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