"Ray Romano doesn't think his 'Everybody Loves Raymond' character would still be a sportswriter in the current media climate"
Well, yeah - today’s sports reporting consists of hot takes and yelling - Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless might not have pioneered this nonsense, but they certainly popularized it.
Yeah Ray, you could have been anything else and I still would have never watched your show.
He’s pretty much right. Sportswriters today are terrible (TV people are worse yet)
His work on the show “Get Shorty” was really good. Think there might be another season coming as well
The woman who played his wife on “Everybody Loves Raymond” is one of the good guys in the entertainment business
He is probably saying that he wouldn’t have anything to do with the commies on ESPN and the sports industry in general. He would likely have been fired anyway because he would no doubt blast Kaepernick and the kneelers. That’s what conservatives do.
I bet this is true of many old TV shows.
Can you imagine some shows in today’s climate?
I Love Lucy
The Brady Bunch
Gilligan’s Island
Father Knows Best
Bewitched
All In The Family
I Dream of Jeannie
The Lone Ranger
Just off the top of my head, each of these as written would offend the sensibilities of today’s Hollywood idiots who greenlight shows. Each would need severe rewrites, if they were allowed on the air at all.
Loved his show! And being from a crazy Italian family, I could relate.
I watched the show just for his mom and dad.
Mr. Romano goes to a nice golf course here in So Cal. He is a gentleman. I have two tv shows on disc: Everybody Loves Raymond and Carol Burnett. Always fun to watch again.
In the past I read Jim Murray (LA Times), Bruce Jenkins (SF Chronicle), Tim Keown (SF Chronicle) and Bill Plaschke (LA Times). Today newspapers are repulsive. I was repulsed by Herb Caen at the SF Chronicle who regularly promoted adultery and insulted readers who were against adultery. Losers work for newspapers and they know their customers are decreasing.
Now I get my sports from MLB podcasts.
Peter Boyle was a great actor and played the monster on Young Frankenstein (1974)
I think we can throw Oscar Madison in there too. In todays world, its more like Felix would have been the sportswriter of the two. lol
Ever listen to any of his stand up comedy routines?
He’s a hoot and anti-PC.
He couldn’t even be a comedian today.
Didn’t like him then either.
Love the Everybody loves Raymond TV show. My ninety-year-old father has the the box set of all seasons. My wife won’t admit it, but I know she thinks the character Marie reminds her (not in a good way) of my recently departed Italian mother. Opinionated! But rock solid conservative.
Romano and Scott Bakula stared in an absolutely great show on TNT 2010-2011 which just killed me when it was cancelled. It was called “Men of a Certain Age” check it out if you can find it.
Ray Romano went from ‘Everybody Loves Raymond to killer in his new show.