After nine years,
"Everybody Loves Raymond" is
going off the air. The final
episode will show on May 16.
Ray took time to speak to
Newsweek's Nicki Gostin.
Have you filmed the last
episode?
Yeah, over two months ago.
So now what do you do all
day?
I drive around on a moped
and I yell, "Remember me?"
No, there's a lot of things
to do, still a lot of
residual "Raymond" stuff,
and I'm reading scripts,
doing stand-up.
Aren't you a big golfer?
Yeah, I'm playing golf a
little bit more. My wife
doesn't know; she thinks I'm
going into the office.
Is it weird that you have
enough money now to buy your
own country?
Yeah, it's weird that I have
anything. It's all fake
Monopoly money. I don't
really deal with it¡ªmy wife
deals with it. Every morning
I get clean clothes and an
apple and I'm happy.
How much are Raymond's
parents based on your own?
The father is very close to
my father. He has a very dry
sense of humor. It doesn't
bother me, but it drives my
wife crazy.
Like?
We had it on the show where
he worked out how to listen
to our answering-machine
messages, so he would listen
to them and then call up and
tell us, "Hey Raymond, your
doctor called." I would
laugh it off but my wife
would have a fit.
I'm on your wife's side.
Yeah, it was annoying.
Are you going to become a
movie star now?
I want to be a movie star, a
singer and a professional
golfer.
Hey, you were in that movie
with Gene Hackman, "Welcome
to Mooseport."
Yeah, did anybody see it?
That movie was on a plane
and two people walked out.
There's your rimshot.
