The creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, Phil Rosenthal, is opening up about the perils of Hollywood and revealed he is working on a reunion for the show.

The television writer, 65, recently spoke about cancel culture and shared his advice on how he has avoided cancel culture while using that sensitivity to become massively successful.

‘I guess you have to be a little more careful, but I’m not sure if that’s a bad thing,’ he told Fox News at the Televerse 25 event last week in Los Angeles. 

‘I think it’s good to be sensitive,’ he continued.

Rosenthal is best known for creating the hit CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond in 1995, as well as his Netflix special Somebody Feed Phil, an Emmy-nominated food and travel documentary series.

This comes after he previously spoke about how he almost quit working on Everybody Loves Raymond because of casting choices. 

The creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, Phil Rosenthal, opened up about the perils of Hollywood

‘It doesn’t mean you can’t be funny, it just means you don’t do jokes at other people’s expense, maybe, no matter who they are,’ he added.

‘Unless you’re punching above your class, right? You want to punch up, not down.’

He was the creator and showrunner on Everybody Loves Raymond, which starred actor and comedian Ray Romano as the eponymous protagonist, Ray Barone. 

The show also featured his onscreen wife Patricia Heaton, as well as Brad Garrett, Madylin Sweeten, and the late actors Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts, among many others. 

Everybody Loves Raymond aired for nine seasons on CBS, from September 1996 until May 2005. 

Amid the show’s success, CBS debuted a spinoff titled The King Of Queens, which starred Kevin James. 

Rosenthal’s comments come after comedian Rob Schneider slammed ‘cancel culture,’ claiming it has has changed the world of comedy for the worse. 

Schneider, who is known for his comedies Grown-Ups and The Hot Chick, said that audiences are getting too ‘uptight’ about what comedians can joke about on TV. 

Rosenthal is best known for creating the hit CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond in 1995 (pictured), as well as his Netflix special Somebody Feed Phil, an Emmy-nominated food and travel documentary series 

Everybody Loves Raymond aired for nine seasons on CBS, from September 1996 until May 2005; pictured in 1996 series still: Patricia Heaton and Ray Romano

‘People get uptight about stuff. That’s why it is important I have a dark theater to perform in where people can hear things they can’t hear on TV,’ Schneider complained.

But Rosenthal claimed in his new interview that his comedic sensitivity has actually contributed to his career success.

He explained that by avoiding touchy subjects, Everybody Loves Raymond became such a massive hit because he tried to make it intentionally ‘timeless.’ 

‘Well, [Everybody Loves Raymond] was designed to be timeless,’ he said. ‘And we did that by not having topical jokes, jokes of the day, you know?’

Rosenthal added: ‘It would’ve been easy to do Bill Clinton jokes, let’s say, when we were first up. But that dates the show. 

‘So we did things that we thought might be universal. Relationships, marriage, sibling rivalry, having kids, having parents,’ he continued.

‘And so it has lasted, and this year coming up, it will have been 30 years since we were on the air.’

Rosenthal also explained that he was working on a reunion show in favor of a reboot. ‘I’m working on it. A reunion show. Not a reboot of the series but a reunion,’ he told the outlet.

Rosenthal claimed that his comedic sensitivity contributed to his career success. He said that by avoiding touchy subjects, Everybody Loves Raymond became a massive hit because it was intentionally ‘timeless’; pictured in 2005 series still: Ray Romano and Patricia Heaton

He also explained that he was working on a reunion show in replacement of a reboot. ‘I’m working on it. A reunion show. Not a reboot of the series but a reunion,’ he told the outlet; pictured in 1996 series still: Ray Romano and Patricia Heaton

Earlier this year, Brad Garrett — who played Ray’s brother Robert — said there would never be a reboot. ‘There is no show without the parents,’ he said of the late actors Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts; pictured in 1996 series still: Roberts, Boyle, Romano, Garrett and Heaton, alongside Sullivan Sweeten, his late twin Sawyer Sweeten and Madylin Sweeten

Earlier this year, Brad Garrett — who played Ray’s brother Robert — revealed whether a reboot would ever be made.

‘There won’t be,’ Garrett told People. ‘And I’m just saying that because that’s something that Ray and Phil have always said.’

‘There is no show without the parents,’ he said about the late actors Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts, who played Ray and Robert’s parents, Frank and Marie Barone.

‘They were the catalyst, and to do anything that would resemble that wouldn’t be right to the audiences or to the loyal fan base. And it was about those two families, and you can’t get around that.’

Boyle died at 71 in December 2006, and Roberts died nearly a decade later at 90 in April 2016.

During his interview, Rosenthal revealed the moment he knew his show would become the iconic hit it remains today, even three decades later. 

‘It was like the third episode,’ he explained. ‘Something happened and we got like a 30-second laugh at something from an audience that hadn’t seen the show yet. It hadn’t been on TV yet. 

‘In the beginning, you’re just filming a bunch of shows and you’re trying to get any audience you can and they would come, and they didn’t know what they were watching. But this laugh was so big that it went beyond just a bit. It became, “Oh, they’re cued into the characters.” And that’s when I knew we had something.’