The following excerpt is the prologue to \”You\’re Lucky You\’re Funny: How Life Becomes a Sitcom,\” (Viking, 2006) a memoir by Phil Rosenthal, creator and executive producer of \”Everybody Loves Raymond.\”
When Paul Reiser co-created and starred in the 1990s hit sitcom, \”Mad About You,\” — about a secular Jew married to a Christian — he helped spur a new trend in TV comedy: the cute but neurotic Jewish leading man.
Is it an Italian sensibility? Or is Raymond a crypto-Jew?
Michael Glouberman felt the déjà vu the whole time he was reading the pilot of the Emmy-nominated Fox sitcom, "Malcolm in the Middle."
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