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\n\tPhil Rosenthal may be many years out from his last sitcom, but the Everybody Loves Raymond<\/em> creator keeps damn busy. In the wilds of Alberta earlier in June, where he accepted the award of excellence at the annual Banff World Media<\/a> Festival, the star of Netflix\u2018s Somebody Feed Phil<\/em> sat down to go through his packed schedule. There\u2019s the eighth season of his culinary travel<\/a>og, out today, a Paley Center retrospective of Raymond<\/em><\/a>, his upcoming speaking tour and, if the red tape finally permits it, a mid-summer launch for his and Nancy Silverton\u2018s Los Angeles diner, Max and Helen\u2019s. The famously cheery TV writer is psyched about it all\u2026 though he is not above indulging a few digressions about the horrors of American life at the moment.<\/p>\n

\n\tAre you the kind of traveler who goes someplace and immediately says, \u201cI could live here?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tOh yes. I feel that way about Italy and Spain. I feel that way about London. London is spectacular. It would be so easy to live there. The food scene amazing<\/p>\n

\n\tIt really is and that was not the case when I spent a semester there 20 years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s one of the best food cities in the world now that they embraced fresh produce and their immigrant population. I attribute the quality of food that you can get anywhere in the world now to the immigrants. That is kind of theme<\/a> that is emerging on the show, that immigrants mostly make everywhere they go better. That\u2019s what I\u2019m finding in every single city. And when we explore Las Vegas, for example, this season, obviously there\u2019s the strip. Same as Disney World, the Las Vegas Strip was built and maintained by immigrants over the last, at least 50 years. There are great Chinatowns, great Indian places, great Thai places, great Korean places everywhere off the strip. We should only be celebrating the immigrants who truly made America great. I can\u2019t stand that there\u2019s any anti-immigrant sentiment at all, let alone what\u2019s happening because it\u2019s so the opposite of what is true.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s frustrating, because it doesn\u2019t even feel like a logical argument. What jobs do people think they\u2019re taking?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tThey\u2019re adding. Start removing these people who make the world run and then see what happens.<\/p>\n

\n\tLooking at your tour dates and seeing this show hit its eighth season, you\u2019re kind of a performer now. How has that transition been?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tOne of the highlights of my life to get cast in school play. All I wanted to be was funny on stage. My dad was really funny. Everyone I watched on TV or idolized was funny. People like Johnny Carson, who I got to meet.<\/p>\n

\n\tOh, really? I wouldn\u2019t have thought your timelines aligned.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI got to have lunch with him eight years after he was off the air. So I directed President Clinton in the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner video. It was the first time a sitting president had done an intentionally funny video. Obama did them and of course Biden, though you\u2019ll notice Trump will never do anything intentionally funny, but by the way. Anyway, the next day the video popped. And a friend of mine, Tony De Sena, had been a writer for Carson, who had seen the video. Tony asked him if he\u2019d like to have lunch with the guy who made it. So I had lunch with Johnny Carson and I brought Ray Romano with me. He couldn\u2019t have been nicer. Amazing.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat was he like as a hang?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI went up to the office first and the entire wall was TV Guide <\/em>covers just of him. We sat with him for two hours, and he was just was so generous with his time \u2014 stories, anything you wanted to talk about. He had a very strong opinion about political human. He said, \u201cJust do your act and get the fuck off the stage.\u201d I wonder, though, if he could have resisted such a comic figure as Trump.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe probably couldn\u2019t have imagined present circumstances.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI swear, I\u2019m glad my parents are dead. This would\u2019ve killed them. I just can\u2019t imagine someone who\u2019s lived as long as that and seen all the changes for the good that the country\u2019s made and then this tremendous leap backwards. Is it just human nature to build something up and then destroy it? Certainly seems that way. I was friendly with Larry Gelbart. You know who that was?<\/p>\n

\n\tYes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tHe had the best line ever. I was talking about what it\u2019s like to pitch sitcoms to him over lunch with him and Norman Lear. At one point he just turns to Norman after hearing about the process now, and he says, \u201cWe\u2019re dying just in time.\u201d That\u2019s how I feel about the world sometimes. Anyways, we digress. Do your acting and get the fuck off the stage.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat do you do when you\u2019re on stage?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI like to tell people that I come on stage, eat a sandwich and then leave Somebody thought I was serious. No, I\u2019m not charging ticket prices for that. They show a highlight reel and then I come out with a moderator \u2014 a different moderator, each city. Hopefully funny stories about my life and my career that\u2019s like 35 years old at this point. The second half of the show is an audience Q&A, which is my favorite part. That\u2019s all improv.<\/p>\n

\n\tHow much are you traveling between touring and production lot?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tHalf the year. I\u2019m grabbing it all now. I don\u2019t have to tell you, if you watch the news<\/a>, anything could happen. I\u2019m trying to live right now. And I think of the world as ours \u2014 meaning all of us. You want to be a citizen of your town, your state, your country and then of the world. The more you travel, the more you realize that it does belong to everyone.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen is the restaurant going to open? It feels like that\u2019s been gestating for a while.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019ve had the lease for a year and a half! It is not easy to open a small business of any kind, let alone a restaurant. You have to get permitting for every single thing you want to do. The bureaucracy, that\u2019s a real thing. You get approved by one guy and another guy comes in a month later and says \u201cThat\u2019s not going to pass inspection.\u201d But, hopefully, we\u2019re opening end of July.<\/p>\n

\n\tHow\u2019s the menu coming along?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tNancy Silverton\u2019s a genius, of course. Now that talent is being focused on comfort food at the diner, so when she says, \u201cHere, try this chocolate pudding,\u201d it only looks like ordinary chocolate pudding. It\u2019s one of the best chocolate desserts I\u2019ve ever had in my life. \u201cOh, Phil, you like a hot, open-faced turkey sandwich?\u201d Amazing. This is my favorite diner dinner, and she gives me the best one I\u2019ve ever had. There\u2019s Helen\u2019s Matzoh Ball Soup. The one dish my mom made well was her matza bowl soup. Nancy made it better than my mother\u2019s! I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m most excited about. I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to order at my own diner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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