You're Lucky You're Funny: How Life Becomes a Sitcom
Автор:Phil Rosenthal Год: 2006 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 256 ISBN: 0670037990 The creator and executive producer of Everybody Loves Raymond dissects the art of comedy and the making of a sitcom classic In television, where programs can premiere and disappear in the same week, Everybody Loves Raymond reigned as America's best-loved show for nine years with more than seventeen million viewers. As the number-one sitcom, it received more than seventy Emmy nominations, including two wins for best comedy. With You're Lucky You're Funny , Phil Rosenthal takes us onstage and inside the writer's room. Rosenthal's meteoric ascent was preceded by odd jobs, including a stint as a museum security guard, running a deli, and writing for a slew of forgettable shows?including one starring Robert Mitchum as a curmudgeonly homeless man taken in by two orphans. But when he met comedian Ray Romano, they discovered a shared lifetime of family dysfunction?and endless material for a sitcom. Not only a chronicle of one man's rise...
