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5/5/2005
Romano: Don't Take My Wife (CBS News)
May 5, 2005
Romano: Don't Take My Wife
May 5, 2005
(CBS) Comedian Ray Romano would be lost without his wife, Anna, who runs his life, especially his finances.
“She does the whole thing,” Romano tells 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft, in an interview to be broadcast Sunday, May 8, at 7 p.m. ET/PT. “God forbid, if aliens came and took her away and didn’t hurt her and kept her in a safe place and…[brought] her back in, like, six months, for those six months, I wouldn’t know what to do,” says Romano of his wife of 18 years. “I mean, I’d throw a party,” he jokes, “but I wouldn’t know how to pay for it.”
Romano’s hit CBS show, "Everybody Loves Raymond," bows out in a few weeks after a very successful nine seasons. The former stand-up comic from Queens, N.Y., may not know how to get at his money, but there’s plenty of it.
Once doing stand-up for $75 a weekend, Romano will leave television as its highest paid star ever, having earned $1.8 million per episode last season. When told that is twice the money pro-basketball star Shaquille O’Neal makes, Romano was ready: “And I’m a better foul shooter than him. Seriously…I keep a chart. I take 100 free throws and I’m about 61 percent. Shaquille’s like 50 [percent].”
True to form, Romano sunk 6 out of 10 foul shots on his backyard court for 60 Minutes cameras.
There’s so much money, the real-life Ray avoids the grief that his on-screen character Raymond is subjected to on the weekly sitcom. “I just go to work, come home and my wife lets me throw my clothes on the floor and she doesn’t say anything, so I must be making some money,” quips Romano.
"Everybody Loves Raymond" airs on the CBS television network, which is also home to "60 Minutes."
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