Ray Romano quit stand-up comedy twice before achieving major success

LOS ANGELES – Ray Romano was “beaten down” in the early days of his stand-up career, which led him to quit.

Romano was accompanied by his family at the premiere of his Netflix series “No Good Deed.” He married his wife Anna in 1987. The couple has four children together: daughter Alexandra, twin sons Matthew and Gregory and son Joseph.

In November, Romano’s twin sons, 31, released their documentary “The Romano Twins.” In the documentary, the Everybody Loves Raymond star talked about giving all of his children advice about their careers and revealed that he gave up on his dreams not once, but twice.

Ray Romano gave up stand-up comedy twice before his career took off. (Getty Images)

“He does a little trip standing up, and he goes on these little dives, and he tries standing up for the first time, and people aren’t even looking at the stage. There aren’t even people in there. “And of course it doesn’t go well and he takes it very personally,” the star said of his youngest son, Joseph Romano.

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“So I almost had to grab him and say, ‘You don’t understand. First of all, you can’t do well in a place like this, and you can’t do well when… it’s your first time on stage.’ So I understand that you’re hurt, but you really have no right to be upset right now.”

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“It takes a long time to get up. I just told him, ‘Please don’t act like that because that’s how I was.’ I gave up twice. I gave up the first time, but luckily I tried it a third time.

“I gave up twice. You know, I got knocked down the first time. I gave up and the second time I got knocked down again.”

—Ray Romano

Romano stars alongside “Friends” star Lisa Kudrow in the upcoming comedy-thriller series. Speaking to Fox News Digital at the premiere, Romano said he and Kudrow had instant chemistry.

“That was from the beginning. I had never met her. We were filming our TV shows (“Friends” and “Everybody Loves Raymond”) two stages apart on the Warner Brothers lot and had never met.”

Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano star in the Netflix series “No Good Deed.” (Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)

“So, yeah, I was a little worried. As always, you know, she made it comfortable right away. I was, you know, a fan of hers. She says she’s a fan of mine. I’ll take her word for it,” Romano continued. “We bonded through family, neuroses and insecurity. And the chemistry was right. I mean, sometimes you get very lucky and it’s easy. And this one was easy.”

WATCH: Ray Romano and Lisa Kudrow had chemistry from the start on No Good Deed.

Romano explained that Kudrow was a fan of “Everybody Loves Raymond,” which he didn’t believe at first. For seven years, Kudrow was unaware that the cast and crew for Romano’s sitcom were filming two stages away.

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“She said, ‘Well, but I’ve watched every episode,’ and I thought she was just trying to make up for it. But then, as time went on, she started quoting episodes and lines and I knew she was telling “truth. It was kind of cool,” Romano explained.

From left: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow (Getty Images)

Ray Romano starred in Everybody Loves Raymond for nine seasons. (Getty Images)

Kudrow told Fox News Digital that the on-screen chemistry between her and Romano “looked OK to me.”

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“We were on the same property filming our shows. He likes to say that I didn’t know he was there… I didn’t know because we were filming our show on our set, but I don’t know. I just felt like I would like him if I ever met him.

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“And I did,” Kudrow said with a smile.

Kudrow noted that she finally got around to watching “Everybody Loves Raymond” during the coronavirus pandemic.

“Friends” ran on television for ten seasons from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. Everybody Loves Raymond aired for nine seasons from September 13, 1996 to May 16, 2005.

Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano star in the Netflix series “No Good Deed.” (Netflix)

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“No Good Deed” shows the ups and downs of the search for a good home and the lengths people go to to protect their secrets along the way. The Netflix series premieres on December 12th.