NEED TO KNOW
Ray Romano and Brad Garrett are like real-life brothers
While presenting the award for Outstanding Comedy Series at the 77th annual Primetime Emmy Awards, the Ice Age actor, 67, and Finding Dory star, 65, reunited for a hilarious bit. The actors, who played brothers on the hit sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, reflected on their win in the category 20 years ago.
While onstage, Garrett jokingly compared his career to Romano’s, saying that the next time he’ll get recognized at the Emmys will be during the In Memoriam. After hilariously responding that Garrett will make it if it’s a slow year, Romano bragged on his friend.
“By the way, you’re doing fine. He has his own comedy club in Las Vegas,” Romano said, before Garrett jokingly responded, “It’s in the food court.”
In response, the Somewhere in Queens star quipped, “If you were this funny back then, we could have won a couple more.”
Monty Brinton/CBS
The show premiered on Sept. 13, 1996, and starred comedian Romano as an Italian sports columnist living in Long Island with his wife (played by Patricia Heaton) and their three kids, with his nosy parents just across the street. Garrett played Ray’s brother, Robert Barone.
The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now!
While speaking to PEOPLE at the premiere of Disney Pixar’s Elio on June 10, at the El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles, Garrett offered a definitive answer on whether or not there will be a reboot of the show.
“There won’t be,” Garrett told PEOPLE. “And I’m just saying that because that’s something that Ray and Phil [Rosenthal, the show’s creator] have always said.”
Garrett noted that the primary reason is that the two actors who played Ray’s parents — Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts — have both passed away.
“There is no show without the parents,” Garrett told PEOPLE. “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.”
Despite that a reboot isn’t in the cards, Garrett says he’s eternally grateful for the role. “I know [the reboot] won’t happen, but 30 years later, I got very lucky to get on that bus. I’m very grateful,” he added.
Hbo/Worldwide Pants Inc/Kobal/Shutterstock
Though no reboot is planned, the show lives on with all 210 episodes available to stream on Peacock and Paramount+.
Romano himself told PEOPLE he undertook a binge of the show in April 2024, watching and rating all the episodes for the first time since the series finale in 2005.
“I got on a little kick there. I hadn’t seen the episodes,” the actor told PEOPLE. “They took on a new look to me. I was appreciating them more. I was very hard on them back then … But you see when you’re removed from it a little, I felt like an audience member. And then I said, ‘Let me rate them.’ I rated them, and I was hard on some.”
Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
See PEOPLE’s full coverage of the 77th annual Primetime Emmy Awards as they’re broadcasting live on CBS and Paramount+ from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
