or you can defend yourself enjoy. with a good indication. to expect. there to be just to give you. americans love buying homes. this was a fundamental part of how our political leadership and our country a large understood the bargain you get a hope and then you'll rebel right that's the things you don't revolt if you have a stake in the system. and be really interesting to dial it back and think about the longer deeper history what housings meant in the united states not just that

old question of the american dream but the bigger question of who the dream is and for. folks that us military are host of dennis miller. plus one had to check my notes coming up we've got phil rosenthal now you know him in the overarching view for being the co-creator is a huge mega hit sitcom everybody loves raymond with the great ray romano and now it seems like he can pick and choose a gig because that's the you know the mother lode there he does a great job in front of the camera he has got a show on netflix going into its 4th season somebody feed phil and it is a delightful caprice we'll talk to him about it right at this and then a smaller plus one.

hey folks welcome to dennis miller plus one we had some technical problems a we've had more false starts than an olympic sprinter with a clock you station through but now we've got things cut things up and running with mr rosenthal phil is known for the creator and writer executive producer everybody loves raymond but much like larry stepped on to the other side of the camera now and who is quite an amiable bloke i find him so watchable i love the show run that flick somebody feet fell and he's got a really nice manner about him as he goes around the world and is the polite kind funny epicurean the 4th season is currently streaming on the platform please welcome the estimable phil rosenthal fellow how are you. just like larry.

well if. larry's a genius but i i i used to watch it would catch years ago and think this cat's a genius but if they don't come along for the ride immediately he gets he defaults to cranky too easily and he's getting hurt yeah fame really becomes larry because he has gotten so i find him classy dresses to the nines which always have a good laugh you get a real sense and insouciance of bottom and he seems to be. so much easier and so you know larry's a guy who really has had a great arc over the years. my friend steve crew scrope and you know steve a comedian is also a writer i've been on raymond he used to tell me he told me a story that once at. it was the improv in manhattan larry came offstage and he went to the bar and then during the next comedians set you could hear just. and it was larry smacking his head on the par saying i can't

take it anymore i can't take it anymore i can't take it anymore. i used to find the improv particularly infuriating now what least what i came off of the comedy store i didn't think he was in the game she'd look at me and say yeah where more sweaters and i was able to divorce myself from her criticism because i thought i don't know that she has a voltaire like stranglehold on comedy but what i always like was del close at 2nd city and he it have a monocle on and he's given me notes on thing i got warner klemperer gleaning my act here what's happening here so that's what happened but where is bud metamorphic came off stage and so the son of got some notes and larry sucked. but when i was just. i got to tell you i'm here i find your manner

delightful man want to go on netflix i thought i wonder what this is about and it was about food i saw that's the guy from ray's show and boy you've got a nice way about shot there brother you you you're good with the hoi poloi they dig you. thank you my friend i you're not going to talk to a luckier person than me that's really how i feel so yeah this is so pleasure phil i'm underdressed going great you know me and you. is it me or is it spectacular. to goodness if you do i'll be throwing up the best card for travelling sitting with people you just met and shared a meal with. my lucky to have this job yes you. are there you patient as a yes. and i just love doing it so you know it's not like i'm just happy all the time i'm

a person i get frustrated and angry and mad at stuff and yet when you see the show i'm livin the life what's to get upset about so i don't understand anybody who would have such a show who wouldn't be in a great mood all but. it's the mother load i use you look at i mean the score is the mother load what i used to look at and i admired his work. but i used to look at board dane and i'd think i would think i hope some of this or mug and thing is fain certainly he must realize that for him to be invited into people's houses all around the world to sit down and feel that convivial familial vibe as good food is shared and fellowship is certainly seizing the gravel and i thought it must be a put on but it turns out i don't know enough about him to this day but it turns out there were some daemons there but i look at you and i'm not putting him down he was great teller as i don't he was a you he was a said i know

a superstar right i like the way you're wearing it out there are they yeah this guy get that this is a gas what he's doing it's a gas it's also a privilege right so you feel like a little bit of an ambassador we all are you know in 18 just like going and being half nice you're great and so so and what you get back in return is just so overwhelming it changes your life it changes your perspective on on like when you get home do you like to travel. oh. i love it for the same reason i think you do 1st off i was a square when i was a kid so for me to do the marco polo thing i always it's my walter mitty where just that i can get on a plane and go somewhere a little adventurous makes me feel a little better about myself but then when i get there i was just in the himalayan kingdom of butan last year and i got invited into this lunch and i said and i'm being overly i'm trying to be the antithesis of the ugly american some being overly

mannered almost about it and they're all sitting cross-legged on the floor 25 or 64 and i have stood gnosis and i'm not very extended well so i'm sitting there trying to keep it up but i'm in pain and just a look at press room at a guy a book nice guy ago you don't have to sit like that we believe in doing that for kids i thought this is the juice of travel right here but the sketch. you're not limbo you watch i love it i had a scene in bangkok at a buddhist temple and the priest wanted me to sit a very specific way just like what you're talking about your knees this way like a cattle most and i was like i have a lot of trouble meeting can you give me a break and he was like all hope you get what he wanted me in this position it was very specific. it was a great great guy yeah it's just funny when you listen if you try to

act like you know everything about it in that situation you're missing the point the point is that acquaint yourself with your own or helplessness about how the other people live and then you kind of fall into it and you come away and i find myself my brain scrubbed i feel like oh i saw how somebody else sees it it's great yeah it's great to jump in. you hit the motherlode with ray and he starts off you can see starts up on the mitcham thing which is trust me that's a great story to have in your that's a great arrow in your quiver but occasionally you want to get to the point where you hit the the motherlode and indeed along with jerry and tim i'd say raymond did it and i'm wondering how all the different things came together what was it starts now what do you see him he sees you what does it all happen he gets 6 minutes on the letterman show he'd been working for 12 years to try to do that he had a shot on carson but it didn't seem to go anywhere you know everybody thinks you

get that shot on carson and and you're your ticket his punch but it didn't really happen in fact he did get a sitcom he was in the original cast of newsradio and he was fired during the pilot wow i didn't know that very much strain of the film i didn't know. it was and it was a major setback then he waits a couple more years and gets on letterman and letterman after that 6 minutes said because he had a development deal at c.b.s. letterman there should be a show for this guy so they set about looking for writers to create a show for ray romano and i got to meet with ray and you know i was told the story that he i said tell me tell me about yourself i had no idea what the show was going to be neither did he in fact he wanted he wanted to do a show that was very much like seinfeld which was already out at the time can i just sit at the diner and talk to my friends about what's going on it's not like we're really ready is that that's not that's the thing. so i said tell me about

yourself and he says well. i live with my wife and i have twin boys an older daughter and my my parents live close fine they're always bothering me and my older brother is a cop and he lives with them and he's kind of jealous of me touches every bite of food to his chin before he eats it and one time he came to my house he saw my cable ace award he goes it never ends for raymond you know everybody loves raymond and i said well that doesn't look like it is anything that we can use. you know i got to give it to fill sign for out all he said when they said what he wanted to you know denude the magic of pulling the sword from the stone in show business jerry said let's face it at the end of the day i stay close to the drip out of the faucet and ketchup before it spirals down the drain and i put the jewelers loupe lot and i always that jerry is a genius for saying that yes for him that its rarity that you hear parents next

door brother go yeah you know what i mean those are the things that should send up the alarms and a lot of people just view it as well that's what's there that's nothing that's exactly what. well right thought what the hell is that it's just my stupid life i'm like yes that's the that's called low concept and my device to anybody listening is low concept is where you run finale and yours. concept is you know we're from mars and we live next door now you're a slate that premise every week but the stuff of life you know call reiner bless him i learned this from him he would say to his writers at dick van dyke what happened at your house this week you know so if you work for me your job was to go home get in a fight with your wife and come back in and tell me about that. yeah and so we was only. only a few more come across the night sky at a time and you can ride that thing yeah at some point you want to go back to the

band dizzy miss the ottoman or hit the ottoman this year that exact day birds all that yeah that it's turns out that it turns out relatability is this is actually even more important than than funny well listen to raise a great tent pole and i'm telling ira at the aspen comedy festival one year everybody else on the thing had a gig where they were printing money and this cat came out and just straight i say i don't this guy's the only guy without a gig here so i can see him in the middle this been the tent pole that everybody can dance around but you got to get some of those you got to get the ig you got to get the michael richards at brad was he was just a killer and that you know garrett is like on your one well i got very very lucky with the casting right i mean think about any one of those guys is different you know maybe you don't have a hit show they were phenomenal. is

a true that it was called the romantic chronicles at 1st like jerry show that's what i remember the thriller actually you have to understand television at one point seinfeld was probably a thread away from getting whacked there was a nice guy right there management who need to make his bones name rick something i can't remember his name but a lovely guy you know who loved and they got rid of the seinfeld chronicles got a little less concept have a and made about the 3 day life of weird soon the york boom you've got them poetics is the big one us weekly but at the big getting in our ad how did you guys come out of the blocks was a tenuous or did you hit pretty quick very tenuous we were we were the 1st programming year of les moonves when he 1st got there so that was the 1996 the fall of 96 year all his other shows had major stars we didn't have that but they liked the show they thought it was funny it tested ok it tested. tiny bit

better than that bomb of seinfeld and and so and so they put us on in the only slot that they had which was $830.00 fridays after dave's world which was a dead it was just dead they hadn't had a hit there since gomer pyle and so in a way we were protected because nobody expected anything there's a number you can't go below but we were we were ok so when they found that the reviews were good and that the audience as looks as small as they were were coming back every week and they had something crapped out on monday nights they said. probably in march of that 1st year we're going to give you 6 opportunities on monday nights. in a in a good time slot where people are expected to watch but if you don't perform there

you're going to you're going to be dead and so that's when we were most nervous and then it had the lake is not some of our bunkers up on friday i mean you knew the drill right so you were hit that's written a speed bag when you got the money and by the way folks if you haven't heard ray romano tell his story about les moonves asking him to get in the collage why tackle him on the couch you haven't lip now we're going to. we're going to more to phil rosenthal after the break somebody's thingy bill is the show on netflix then let's gets going into its 4th season and i want to talk to him about the birth of it because i seem to remember something on p.b.s. but he's a convivial storyteller feel like i'm with the white bell or one of those cats these are low and these guys all have ability to rap and make it interesting though rosenthal right after this on dennis miller plus one.

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by proxy welcome back to dennis miller plots one enjoying our time with the very convivial phil rosenthal phil is known well listen his his legacy will be the creator writer executive producer everybody loves raymond which is on anybody's mount rushmore of contemporary sitcoms he's since moved in front of the camera doing a really nice job i love his show on netflix it's season 4 of somebody feed phil and she watches a fee it's a feel good burp of the summer i would call it is one of the ones that i'm going to you know there's. there's fellowship and there's great cuisine and you get to see the world so stuck in it as we all are we are all our agger well but it's nice to get out once while do it was bill 4th season is currently streaming on netflix and film though i remember correctly or wasn't a something on p.b.s. there was a precursor yes absolutely well now i have it all is having aha. hell having and it is it's you can find it on i tunes or amazon now but that

was one season we did pretty well i thought we won the james beard award for best food and travel show so i was excited and then they couldn't afford to do the show anymore so here comes netflix yeah netflix said is there here's here's the best question you can be asked at a pitch was there anything that you wanted to do on that show that you couldn't do i'm like i'm like this is hasn't this is never been asked right now and so so i said why be at the hospital get me as i could have chad everett the 3rd doing a pledge reg for 8 days to get you. all are on the crap service table you know or another i don't like cigs some pocket change out of his barcalounger and you're off to sale on brotherhoods just like that you got it what exactly are your favorite places you've visited over the year i think italy wins that you know for

me it's like it you know you have an affinity for place when you get there you just feel like all traces everything this is everything so with italy everywhere you look is gorgeous everybody food is delicious and everyone's hugging kissing you so what's not to like so so that's that's my favorite i actually love everywhere that we've been and here's the tell i go back. i go back and when we have filming yeah like my wife my kids you got to see this you got to see this come on we're going back plus i made friends during filming for real and so i want to go back and see them so that it's awesome lisbon is phenomenal having been a lisbon beautiful i love that i love copenhagen why did you go to the loft when you're at what's known as still open when you're in copenhagen or the to go there i did i did what someone in filmed they'd had

a special thing though that they did under a bridge like a cookout while they were in-between noma's and so we killed that but then i went back and had the real know my experience with my family and it happened to be the meal what they were experimenting with mold and my daughter this is a very expensive meal and my daughter had no compunction about letting me know that this was the worst meal she's ever had in her life. all right so it wasn't that it wasn't a classic though my experience now what are you going to do what's the show og or for in the end of the so weird that we're. i don't know i guess the plague they didn't have twitter earth you know you during the gin crisis in london nobody knew exactly what was going on were so closely intertwined now and it's so grim there i must say at the beginning i thought well in the each life comes some clouds and i don't have it right now i'm poor bastards

a dime from it so i'm not going to whine but going on the 10 month brother i'm sorry to get a little grim about it is you know what i forgot the window the people walking around in the on dramatists train i'd like dries start to get warmed out what about you. yes absolutely however there is good news the vaccines else really promising everyone saying this and they're saying like by even so i would tell people who might look at the showing go oh god remember when we used to be able to do that you know i get it i feel that way a little bit too but look at it this way the vaccine is coming it's going to be ok the world will be returned to us watch the show and go that place looks awesome let's plan our trip plan for a year from now i think that's safe to do don't you. that's the one of my great joys as i can go away mentally at night right now if i just half my ambien and

allow myself to stay up an extra day in minutes i can lay there in my head and astral project out where i'm going to great restaurants again let me louis and watching people smile as they bring that the best honk frank oh my god illiterate. oh my god i'm with you man i think it's the greatest that places the greatest had my. 20th wedding anniversary there i wouldn't know what a story for a boy you know i know where you've got i think you come from back in gotham and kids kind of dream big there but also kind of humble the rough streets keep it a little you keep your grab on so it all opens up you start to see the bigger picture you never think you will add oh no i'm from pittsburgh bad so i was we were thinking out hoagies at her mandy brothers right and then it right like. i can't believe that i get a table at this joyride much less afford this food i really do take

a mental snapshot and say god thank you for blessing me because there are people we were exactly a single. where exactly the same that way i feel that every single time when we filmed our 1st travel show in i think it was barcelona was the 1st all what phil is having on p.b.s. after the 1st day i thought if it ends tomorrow i got to do this. so i just feel i feel lucky. now i love people who come to it like that because i see people who put sometimes and i'm not into the lecture business everybody can go about it their way but i'm so happy it's not to the manner born for me because i get the extra juice when i do it of thinking 3 only is that it's this to do these things but when you come for where i come from i always think i think you got you know my mother worked anonymously or whole life and probably never yes some of the things that i get because i could tell jokes i'm really i'm really thankful it

sounds like you are too when you were young and i would you want to be did you want to be a. entertainer or do you want to be a well comedian who stood out i mean i just i just wanted to be funny you know when you're a little kid you don't know there's writing and directing and producing i would watch the honeymooners and i just wanted to be them die love them you know i was built a little more like our carnie so i thought i would be like that. and i just looked at it with what yes yes yes i just love them so much and and so i did you know the only legal way for you to pursue that school is to be in the school play i had no desire to be stand up but i loved being a character actor i want to i thought that's what i would do so i started at college and i was a big star in high school and college and then i graduated and moved into new york city and believe it or not nobody cared that i was

a big star in high school and college. who knew who knew i was the over the bread truck rough yes so so i started writing and that was the ticket by the weekend talking about your mother who toiled in anonymity i called my mother i wrote a i wrote a script with my best friend and we sold it to h.b.o. for $70000.00 this was $988.00. and i called my parents i didn't have $200.00 in the bank and we sold the for $70000.00 and i told my mother and the phone went dead i said my dear there. she goes do you know we've worked our whole lives to have that in the bank like you little. just for your little funny monkeying around that's what the world gives you yeah so. i never got up but he about a brother i would i was right same. as when i went out the door from pittsburgh to

me come a comedian my said mom i said i know this is trippy for you but i gotta go try this i wrote the jokes for other people didn't feel right i want to tell i'm not cared a bit but up to go to l.a. and try this for a year but yeah it's great dave she looks up images of what god go with his son and don't become. a were i was there a lot of people were just like in rooms talking about all rippers medical good old times that you know i would just sit there remember i'm not i'm not going there i'm going to try to just maintain my wide eyed glee that i get the even play on the periphery of this that's right that's right we're lucky people with a very lucky well listen one of my one of my favorite new shows somebody's feet fell you've got to go over to netflix folks for season they've got the whole samba done the cha cha steps are on the floor is arthur murray with

a good palate and it's great escapism right now the grub is sublime he meets some good people and he's a healthy fellow well met they don't meet it where there's all these raised eyebrows and looking around seems like they take fill in right there is an au pair right on the spot phil rosenthal good to meet your brother we're going to eat some day. i hope so i hope to break bread and i hope i will toast you my friend. told me that we must follow up on that good the magic pill rosenthal all right to the dentist for a plus one lie by folks. she sure moving into those it did just that and just means nothing if you don't mind it just became isn't on that. the shuttles all. the time you can look them up if you

know for a long today in that country not in the east i'm upset the man made off with. a bunch of us the economy to have more than a last step is that. moment might be. a month to get an up close look i mean i'm still a grinder going back to the commitments. around here i was going. to turn over them a bit more i'm going to. look at what's going to make the long. beach tomato plant going to come up thinking she was not going to go missing i'm just going to be like the happy to do going home to. join me every 1st week on the alex simon shore and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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