Phil Rosenthal

I don't want to ruin this guy's life.

And this is my shot to create, write, and run a show.

It's a very big honor to have a giant network give you a television show and pay you to do that.

That show and employ 100 and 150 people, you know, and then be a building block on the network.

It's a big responsibility.

Now, all that goes away once you hear that people like it.

But until you hear that, those first few months, especially now.

I wrote a book about it.

It's called You're Lucky, You're Funny, How Life Becomes a Sitcom.

And it was my way of paying this forward as we were wrapping up.

I thought this is a it's a rarefied air, but it's a unique position to be in.

Only a handful of people get to do this in the world.

So why not impart whatever I've learned to the people out there who might want to pursue it?

Now, the business is very different now.

But I think the building blocks of a show are the same no matter what kind of show you're doing.

Success looked like, in high school, seeing my name on the cast list after auditioning.

That first time when I had two lines in the big spring show of high school.

That was success to me.

I was never happier than that moment.

And I believe that we chase that moment the rest of our lives.