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Corporate event planners select Celebrity Direct Inc.
to book Ray Romano for corporate "in-concert" performances. To check his
availability, contact our national booking office at 212 541-3770.
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Romano grew up in the Forest Hills
section of the borough of Queens in New
York City and turned to comedy in his
mid-twenties after appearing at an open-mic
night in a New York comedy club in 1984.
The same year, he gave up outside work
and won a standup comedy competition
sponsored by a local radio station. He
went on to appear in comedy clubs around
the country, eventually getting
television exposure on The Tonight Show
with Johnny Carson and its successor
with Jay Leno, then on Late Night with
David Letterman. Letterman offered him a
development deal with his production
company, Worldwide Pants, which led to
the 1996 launch of the situation comedy
Everybody Loves Raymond on CBS. The show
got good ratings and attracted favorable
critical comment. Romano earned Emmy
Award nominations for Outstanding Lead
Actor in a Comedy Series in 1999, 2000,
and 2001. He won awards from the
Television Critics Association
(Outstanding Individual Achievement in
Comedy, 1999), the American Comedy
Awards (Funniest Male Lead in a TV
Series, 2000), and TV Guide (Actor of
the Year in a Comedy Series, 2001). He
is also the author of the best-selling
book Everything and a Kite. His June
1999 appearance at Carnegie Hall as part
of the Toyota Comedy Festival at New
York was recorded and released by
Columbia Records as his debut album,
Live at Carnegie Hall, in October 2001 |
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