EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND 🌟 THEN AND NOW 2021

[Music] over the course of nine seasons ray romano endeared himself to audiences as ray barone a long island sportswriter juggling work and family including his parents and older brother who live right across the street you are watching the next episode of how they changed and here are some facts about the emmy world winning series which debuted 25 years ago the show began after ray romano did a stand-up set on late show with david letterman i was doing stand-up for 12 years romano recounted to larry king in 2005. i did my first stand-up spot on letterman and then the following week his company called me up to say we want to try to develop a show based around what we saw [Music] romano didn't love the title it was a title that first of all the critics it invites hatred romano explained it came about from a sarcastic comment my brother made who is a police officer and he said look what i do for a living and look at raymond yeah everybody loves raymond so we used it as a working title and it just grew on cbs and we couldn't get rid of it doris roberts thought she would be too busy to even audition doris roberts was busy directing a play while the mary auditions were taking place the place producer made sure to have her available for 3 30 one fateful monday she bit out over 100 other women for the part peter boyle was perfectly angry at his audition for frank peter boyle had trouble just getting into the studio a lot he then couldn't find a parking space then he went into the wrong building by the time he reached romano and show creator showrunner philip rosenthal he was in his own words enraged and perfectly in character for frank barone the top of it all was that according to romano the cbs president was going to give boyle the gig anyway cbs offered carol from france the part of deborah jane sibbett ross's first ex-wife and friends declined the role once she discovered romana was both unaware she had been offered the row by the network and that romano was pushing hard for patricia heaton to play his on-screen wife maggie willa who played janice on france auditioned for the role of deborah too she ended up playing deborah's friend linda over the course of the series as a consolation prize heaton wasn't officially cast until one week before the pilot began shooting [Music] rey is older than his older brother brad garrett who played ray's older brother robert was 36 when the series first started romano was a few months shy of his 39th birthday [Music] philip rosenthal's wife got used to stories from her marriage being written into the show monica herron who played robert's on-again-off-again girlfriend and eventual wife amy was married to the show's creator phil rosenthal she got used to her arguments with rosenthal ending up in scripts heron told people about an episode where debra has bms i'm hearing lines from conversation i had with my husband ray was telling deborah to take medication and she was telling him she needed a hug i was like wow i was crying then laughing then crying it was surreal ninety percent of everything you hear on the show has been said to me or ray romano a one of the writers rosenthal admitted in the same article heron claimed her favorite line to rosenthal is you can't say the right thing on tv but why can't you do it in real life [Music] the names of the twin boys were changed after the first episode in the pilot the kids were known as matthew and gregory but were subsequently turned into michael and jeffrey for the rest of the series romano's own twin sons are named matthew and gregory he decided that art was imitating life a little too closely and asked for the names to be changed matthew and gregory not only got new names they got new actors to play them rosenthal cast sullivan and sawyer sweden as michael and jeffrey respectively they were the real-life brothers of madeleine sweden who played their tvcs ellie the inclination to separate fact from fiction never seemed to apply to ali who kept her character name despite being based on romano's real daughter also named ally not only that the real ally alexandra romano played tv ali's friend molly on the show rey's brother was a police officer whose colleagues made fun of him well my brother was he's a retired cop now but at the time he would take a lot of stuff from the other cops said romano they think it's a documentary while garrett put his own spin on the character to differentiate robert barone from rich romano there was a point where rey's brother and nypd sergeant moved back in with their parents patricia hayden's father was a sports writer like ray barone chuck heaton was a sports writer for the cleveland plain dealer for 50 years he's mentioned in the season one episode recovering pessimist when deborah runs down a list of race competition for sportswriter of the year award chuck hitton's big story this year was too much violence in boxing thanks for the scoop shark peter boyle's career was alluded to twice in the same episode in halloween candy frank gives the same speech about mortality he famously gave to robert de niro's character and taxi driver 1976 he also dressed as frankenstein's monster a nod to his work in mel brook's jan frankenstein 1974. the show made romano the highest-paid actor on television romano made 1.7 to 1.8 million dollars per episode during the last two seasons of raymond surpassing kelsey grammers 1.6 million dollars per episode salary for frasier at the time the series ended when the writers ran out of ideas we ran out of ideas rosenthal told the av club of why the show came to an end if you worked for me i would say to you go home get in a fight with your wife and come back in and tell me about it and then we'd have a show but after nine years if we capped that up our wives would leave us and in california that's half so we made sure that we got out before that happened the series finale taping was delayed by one week patricia hidden fell ill and by the intended showtime her voice was completely gone the audience was sent home and told to return seven days later raymond is loved all over the world the varanes or varanini the russian adaptation which rosenthal attempted to help was russia's number one comedy and performed original episodes after going through all 210 of the american installments local language versions of the show were also produced in egypt closed doors israel you can't choose your family the netherlands everybody's crazy about jack poland everybody loves roman which was cancelled after four episodes and the czech republic everybody loves rudy in the united kingdom a pilot was shot the smiths peter boyle entertained the cast's children peter boyle had previously played a very different frank frankenstein's monster and it wasn't a role he wanted to leave behind either the one time star of the mel brooks comedy jan frankenstein would happily chase romano and hayden's children around the raymond set while impersonating the famous monster people would send the cast unusual gifts ray romano revealed an odd secret while on larry kane live in 2005 a lot of people seemed to like sending the cast pictures of their own family that happened to look like the characters on the show some of it was scary ramana said i was someone's aunt salma at one point bread carrot cutting and that's all for now don't forget to leave a like subscribe and share this video with friends take care

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Length: 10min 14sec (614 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 28 2021