David Letterman was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors and Ray Romano was one of the 4 celebrities that introduced him. When Romano was talking about what the CBS late night host means to him, he told a story and revealed something I didn’t know about Letterman. Romano said he was hired to do a pilot and just a day into rehearsals he was fired from it. But he didn’t give up. Then one Saturday he got a phone call from the Letterman people, and he was nervous about what they wanted just days after he appeared on The Late Show. When he got on the phone it was the show’s producer who said that Letterman liked what he saw and he wanted to sign him to a development deal. That deal lead to a little show called Everybody Loves Raymond. One of of the best sitcoms to ever grace our televisions. Who knew that Letterman was a silent partner in bringing that show to life. Now we all do thanks to The Kennedy Center Honors honoring the most respected late night host on TV today.
Ray Romano was on The Late Show and he told David Letterman that the thing his TV wife Patricia Heaton and his real wife of 25 years have in common is that neither of them will sleep with him. You would think that would be the thing that has his marriage doomed, but he told the CBS late night host that she hates the way he types. Once she said that, he realized that he only has two more years left to be married to Anna.
I’ll tell you I think the typing thing would’ve been a hysterical episode on Everybody Loves Raymond if it were still on.
Ray Romano is getting older and while he was on The Late Show with David Letterman he discussed with him the positive and negatives about that. The Everybody Loves Raymond star started off talking about the negatives and then the host asked if there were any positives. Well he thought about it and said that getting hurt in the groin area doesn’t hurt as much. But he didn’t stop there, he then went on to detail the changes that men go through down there. And now that I have heard him describe his pork and beans, I will not be able to watch him the same way on Men of a Certain Age that starts back up on TNT this Wednesday at 10p as I used to!
BTW you can hear about Ray’s negatives of getting older tonight at 11:35a on CBS when the full interview airs.
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Brad Garrett and his TV brother Ray Romano got together for lunch yesterday and the Everybody Loves Raymond stars showed they still have brotherly love for each other! Seriously don’t they look as close now as they did when they were playing brothers on the hit comedy that debuted almost 15 years ago. Can you believe it has been that long because they both still look great!
BTW co-creator Phil Rosenthal’s new movie Exporting Raymond about his journey of trying to make the show in Russia is in theaters today!
