Sunday, January 31, 1999
Audience contributes punch lines
BY JOHN KIESEWETTER
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Picking a great joke isn't as easy as it sounds.
Try it yourself.
The biggest laughs during the taping of the Everybody Loves Raymond episode to air Monday came when Ray (Ray Romano) made fun of his brother's (Brad Garrett) mustard-colored leisure suit.
Mr. Romano, a stand-up comic, continually broke up Mr. Garrett with surprise one-liners, as the Warner Bros. studio audience howled. The star had asked writers to think up alternative one-liners, called “take twos,” over lunch that day.
So here's your chance to guess which punch line will be broadcast by CBS Monday (9 p.m., Channels 12, 7).
The set-up: Ray was in a diner talking to Robert, dressed in the yellow suit, about his radical change in personality and attire.
Robert said: “It's easy for you, Raymond. You fit in everywhere. You're a 40 Regular. You know where I had to go for this suit?”
To which Ray replied:
• (A) “Big, Tall and Tasteless?”
• (B) “I don't know, but I bet it was dark.”
• (C) “Little Shop of Horrors?”
• (D) “Gulden's?”
• (E) “I don't know, but I bet they're glad you bought it.”
The scripted line was (A), but that doesn't mean anything, said Philip Rosenthal, executive producer. He and Mr. Romano will choose a line in editing.
“I have a couple that are my favorites. It may come down to technicalities, which one I can edit in there before Brad laughed,” Mr. Rosenthal said.
“It's a good problem, having too many funny lines to pick from. We'll pick one and live with it,” he said.
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