831 Legendary Comedy Writer Mike Royce on career, comedy, ego and more !
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Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 2 May 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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I have a nice little news recap for you and then I have a great talk with legendary comedy writer Mike Royce!
From 1988 to 1999, Royce was a stand-up comedian in New York City. For several years, he was also a warmup comedian for such shows as The Maury Povich Show, Viva Variety, and Spin City. In 1997, he got his first job as a writer on MTV's Apartment 2F, which starred Randy and Jason Sklar. In 1999, Royce joined the writing staff of Everybody Loves Raymond, where he eventually worked his way up to the position of executive producer for the last two seasons. In 2005, Louis C.K. asked Royce to be the executive producer and show runner of a new sitcom, HBO's Lucky Louie.[1]
In 2008, TNT ordered a pilot for a new series written by Royce and Ray Romano.[5] By January 2009, TNT had ordered 10 episodes for the new series Men of a Certain Age, which premiered on Monday December 7, 2009 at 10:00.TNT picked up Men of a Certain Age for a second season as the ratings have increased with men in the age demographic of 25 to 54. On July 15, 2011, TNT cancelled the series after two seasons. In 2017, One Day at a Time premiered on Netflix starring Justina Machado and Rita Moreno. A reimagining of the 1975 Norman Lear sitcom, Royce co-created the 2017 version with Gloria Calderon Kellett. He is executive producer and co-showrunner of the series, alongside Ms. Kellett. In 2011, Mike Royce and his Snowpants Productions company signed a deal with 20th Century Fox Television. He produced two shows for his Fox deal, 1600 Pennand Enlisted. It later joined Sony Pictures in an overall deal and developed a failed CBS pilot.
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| 0:00.0 | From a defabricated solar-powered garden shed in Rockland County, New York, USA, this |
| 0:09.6 | is stand-up with Pete Tomadek. |
| 0:12.6 | On today's episode, the top 10 reasons you should probably not put that on Instagram. |
| 0:23.5 | And now the podcast host who has no worries for such things because he sends inappropriate |
| 0:28.6 | things to personal friends only, Pete Jumadek. |
| 0:34.3 | Yes, that's right. You'll be lucky if you get one. Thank you, Pete Kohie. |
| 0:38.5 | May have gotten many, which is probably where he got that idea. |
| 0:42.4 | Hello and welcome to today's episode of stand-up. |
| 0:45.1 | I'm here each and every day. I thank you very much for a present flight, for subscribing, |
| 0:49.8 | for writing a review. Those of you that are paid subscribers, I can't do it without you. |
| 0:54.4 | I've got an excellent guest joining me today, legendary comedian and comedy writer, |
| 1:00.2 | multi-me award-winning writer of everyone loves Raymond and the reboot of one day at a time. |
| 1:10.0 | It's Mike Royce. For the first time on stand-up, it's a real interesting conversation. |
| 1:17.5 | I know you are going to love this one. And if you don't, I'll personally call you and have |
| 1:23.7 | a conversation to replace the time that you lost. But I don't think that'll be needed because |
| 1:28.0 | Royce is awesome and you're going to love our chef. First, I want to get to the news. |
| 1:34.9 | If you went to bed in your bank with first republic, well, then you woke up and now your bank is |
| 1:40.0 | JP Morgan just getting bigger and bigger. Too big to fail? Oh, don't worry about it. |
| 1:44.8 | Regulators took possession of first republic bank and then sold it immediately. All of its assets |
| 1:50.4 | marking the third major bank failure in the US in less than two months. I have no idea what |
| 1:56.1 | all of this means. I've got to catch up with people like Barry Redholz, Ron and Sana and others |
| 2:01.8 | because I know it's obviously a pretty important issue. The Federal Reserve is on track to |
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