Who gets paid to travel the world, meet interesting people, eat great food and tell amazing stories? Lucky Bastards, that’s who. 

Phil and Richard Rosenthal formed Lucky Bastards to help clients capture and tell great stories. From fiction to unscripted series to documentaries, these two brothers have the gift of producing compelling content. 

Richard Rosenthal

Rich Rosenthal, a (3) time Emmy® Award winning producer, serves as Showrunner and Executive Producer of Somebody Feed Phil (previously the James Beard award-winning, I’ll Have What Phil’s Having) a food and travel show, currently on Netflix. Previously, he was North American Studio Lead for the Creative Shop Studio at Facebook in New York, creating all manner of original content for brands, in feed. Rosenthal was also an Executive Producer of Adult Swim’s Childrens’ Hospital for 6 seasons.

Previous experience includes Head of Content, North America for Havas Worldwide, including the creative oversight of Studio 6, an in-house production and post-production facility in NY, Chicago, and Boston, and Senior Vice President, Content Development and Production, for the Time Warner Global Media Group, creating and distributing premium content, applications and experiences for all the divisions of Time Warner.

He was also GM/SVP of Studio 2.0, the digital production division of the Warner Bros. Television Group. There, he developed live-action and animated short form programming both scripted and unscripted in all genres.

Before joining Studio 2.0, Rosenthal worked at Y&R Advertising for a decade, serving first as Executive Producer, Senior Vice President - then, as Head of Production, Executive Vice President.

During his career, Rosenthal has won Emmy® Awards for Children’s Hospital (2) and his work with Time Magazine on “Beyond 9/11” - and was nominated in 2019 for Somebody Feed Phil.

His commercial work has won numerous Clio, Addy, Effie, AICP and London International awards, and has been nominated for an Emmy® Award and shortlisted at Cannes. He also won the James Beard Award for the food and
travel show, I'll Have What Phil's Having.

A native of New York City, Rosenthal attended Indiana University School of Music and currently lives in NYC with his wife and two children.

Phil Rosenthal was born in Queens, New York and moved with his parents and brother to New City, New York in Rockland County, where he was raised. After graduating from Hofstra University on Long Island, where he majored in theater, he embarked on a career as an actor, writer and director in New York City. In 1989, he relocated to Los Angeles.

Rosenthal's early writing credits include the series Down the Shore and Coach. In 1995, Rosenthal created the hit CBS comedy, Everybody Loves Raymond, which premiered in 1996. He was the Showrunner/Executive Producer for all nine years of the show's very successful run, which ended in 2005. 

During its original run, Everybody Loves Raymond was nominated for over 70 Emmy awards, and won 15 awards, including two for Best Comedy Series in 2003 and 2005. Rosenthal won the 2002 Writers Guild Award for Excellence in Television Writing for his Everybody Loves Raymond script, "Italy."

Rosenthal co-wrote America: A Tribute to Heroes, the 9/11 telethon which aired on all four networks in September 2001, which won a Peabody Award and an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing.

Rosenthal is also an author, having penned a book on the art of comedy and the making of a sitcom classic. You're Lucky You're Funny: How Life Becomes a Sitcom was published in 2006.

In April 2011, Rosenthal wrote, directed and starred in his first feature film for Sony Pictures. Exporting Raymond, the true story about the attempt to turn Everybody Loves Raymond into a Russian sitcom, was met with critical acclaim.

Rosenthal lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress Monica Horan (who played Amy on Everybody Loves Raymond), and their two children.