I don't know that somebody feed Phil is picked up for next season.

I have no idea, even though we're one of their longest running shows in their history in Netflix. Eight seasons, that never happened. Would you watch other shows like Friends, King of Queen, Seinfeld to see? Sure. Couldn't help it. It was, first of all, three networks, right? You didn't have Netflix. We didn't have streaming. We didn't have the internet. Everybody watched. They all read with that fruit of the month scene.

No one came close to Doris Roberts.

She was what was in my head and in my life and was so beyond even. Did you ever run out of ideas for everybody, Les Raymond? Yeah, we started to run out of ideas, which is why we stopped. We were not canceled. We said it's enough. They backed

up the money truck. They said, how about this?

What country do you think has the best food in Europe? Oh, wow. It's a toss-up for me

between Italy, Spain, and France. I'm going to say... Was there ever a moment where you thought,

I want to make television, this is what I'm going to do for the rest of my life, this is what I'm going to chase? Yeah, probably was a little kid. I thought, you know, when you're a little kid and you're watching TV, you don't know there's writing and directing and producing. I would watch like the reruns of a show called The Honeymooners. Did you ever see The Honeymooners? I have.

With Ralph and Norton, I thought they were the funniest things in the world.

And I remember even as a little kid that I would imitate them to my parents and they were friends and they thought I was hilarious.

And I just thought that's what I'm being on television is the coolest thing. And then you have to understand that there's all these different aspects coming into it. Well, yeah, I would be in the school plays. And then you start to realize, oh, somebody wrote this. Oh, and you're being directed by somebody. And I thought that was cool, too. And then I was a big hit in high school. I was a big star in high school, so much so that they encouraged me to go for theater.

And I went to Hofstra University.

And it was there that I learned about directing and producing and writing.

And were you a natural at it?

I think I understood it because I watched so much TV.

I watched, to a fault, my parents would say, what are you going to do?

Get a job watching television?

Because that's all I would do.

And they, like abnormal because I was a little short kid and if I went outside, I would get picked on and stuff.

So TV was my friend. And so I would watch to excess.

And it's funny, after I did get a job in television, writing television,

I sent my parents a giant TV with a note on it that said,

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