Phil Rosenthal

It doesn't mean you're going to hit it necessarily every time, but it's something to shoot for.

It's not that we avoid...

Completely.

There are certain things, like Ray was a sports writer in the show, so once in a while there'd be the name of a current sports writer.

But it wasn't the meat of the show.

It was a tiny, tiny bit of window dressing in the background.

You know, he's going to interview Christy Yamaguchi.

Okay?

All you have to know watching it today is that was a figure skater of the time.

It wasn't critical to the show.

The show was about...

him being stuck between his parents and his wife and his brother and his kids.

I don't know it will be successful, but I know that that's a good thing to shoot for.

It's what I want to shoot for.

If I have this opportunity, why not try to make it that?

Now, other people would say, wait, the way to cash in is to write about the stuff that's in the news right now and the stuff that's in social media.

I don't think I was ever an expert in that.

In current events, I was an expert in my family and the dynamics of that family, and I was able to channel that into this vehicle.

Even when it wasn't funny, it later became funny.

For example, I would give my parents a gift and it would blow up in my face.