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Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

98. Ray Romano: Sometimes the Setup is the Punchline

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

Mygirlfriendsboyfriend, Interviews, Comedy Interviews, Sleepwalkwithme, Iraglass, Comedy, Thankgodforjokes, Thenewone, Mikebirbiglia, Dontthinktwice, Birbiglia

4.84K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Ray Romano has an iconic sitcom and a celebrated stand-up career under his belt, so what drives him to keep challenging himself artistically? Mike and Ray, who often follow each other at the Comedy Cellar, ponder the complicated answer to that question. Plus, discussion of comedy craft, joke-writing technique, and the two separate times Ray was held up at gunpoint.

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0:00.0

Did he ever say I love you before he died?

0:02.4

He did not and he

0:05.8

My father's father left him when he was two years old

0:09.9

So he had his my father had his own thing. Yeah

0:13.5

So I don't I don't fault him for being who he was, you know, he's he tried and he couldn't

0:20.0

but I remember

0:22.4

Towards the end when we kind of knew

0:24.8

You know probably in the next year we wouldn't have him with us anymore

0:28.7

And I remember he was in the hospital here and I you know, of course at that moment

0:33.0

I I wanted to say it so I said I'm going to like I I love you dad and his response was I know you do

0:42.3

Yeah, I can't take it

0:51.5

That is the voice of the great Ray Romano. Oh my gosh. What a dream

0:56.0

I've I've wanted to have Ray Romano on this podcast from jump from the moment we're nearing our hundredth episode

1:03.4

I've I wanted to add up on from episode one one of my favorite comics of all time

1:08.4

I think he's one of the greats in the last few years

1:10.5

I've been lucky enough to get to know him. We we work at the comedy seller a bunch together

1:14.8

We're often back-to-back. He's a phenomenal comic and now a phenomenal filmmaker

1:19.6

I mean, I just saw his new movie. It's called somewhere in Queens and it's really emotional

1:24.3

It's beautiful. It's a beautiful piece of independent film. It's in theaters everywhere right now

1:30.4

I urge you to see it. I cried. I had a very so did Jenny. We had a very emotional reaction to it

1:37.1

It's a lot about parenting is by a father-son relationship and mother-son relationship

1:41.7

It's it's really emotional stuff. We talk a lot about that. We talk about parenting and and

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