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You're Lucky You're Funny

How Life Becomes a Sitcom
Phil Rosenthal - Author
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Book: Paperback | 8.26 x 5.23in | 256 pages | ISBN 9780452288782 | 25 Sep 2007 | Plume | 18 - AND UP
You're Lucky You're Funny
The creator and executive producer of Everybody Loves Raymond, on how to make a sitcom classic and keep laughing

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.

“Rosenthal’s stories are universal, whether he’s getting fired from a night security job at NYC’s Metropolitan Musuem of Art after napping on a seventeenth-century bed or writing jokes for Bill Clinton and respectfully correcting the then president’s pronunciation of Yahtzee.”
Entertainment Weekly “[An] extraordinary ratio of laughs per page.”
—James L. Brooks

“Humorous and highly entertaining.”
—Carl Reiner

“[A] memoir as funny as the sitcom.”
Publishers Weekly


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