You're Lucky You're Funny: How Life Becomes a Sitcom

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Synopsis
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.

Copyright:
2006

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
256 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781101043189
Related ISBNs:
9780452288782, 9780452288782
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
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Copyrighted By:
Buona Sera Productions, Inc.
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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