An Unreasonable Man

Steve Skrovan is an American producer, writer, and director. Skrovan grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and went to Gilmour Academy during his high-school years. He majored in English and was a varsity football defensive back at Yale, where he graduated with a B.A. in 1979. Skrovan began his career as a... stand-up comic. He hosted a short-lived talk show on MTV, Mouth to Mouth, in 1988. In 1989, he became the original host of Totally Hidden Video, which aired on FOX from 1989-1992. Starting in 1991, he was the host for the first two seasons of the game show That's My Dog on the Canadian channel Family. Skrovan co-wrote the 1993 Seinfeld episode "The Movie". He was then a writer for the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, which ran from 1996 to 2005. Skrovan produced the 2005 TV special Earth to America, which covered environmental issues. He wrote, produced, and directed An Unreasonable Man, a 2006 documentary about Ralph Nader. He then worked as a producer on the 2006-2010 show 'Til Death, which starred former Raymond cast member Brad Garrett. Skrovan is married and has two children. This is a list of Everybody Loves Raymond episodes written or co-written by Skrovan.
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Henriette Mantel is an Emmy Award-winning American writer, actress, producer, director, and stand-up comic from Vermont. She was born and raised in Newfane, Vermont on her family's farm. In the late 1970s, she spent two years in Washington, D.C., working with Ralph Nader at his Center for the... Study of Responsive Law. Twenty years later, she co-wrote and directed An Unreasonable Man with her friend Steve Skrovan. The movie was a hit at Sundance and was on the "short list" for the Academy Awards. She has worked in documentary and reality television as a writer/producer on such shows as the Emmy Award winning The Osbournes and Michael Moore's The Awful Truth. She won her first Emmy for writing on Win Ben Stein's Money. Most recently, she was a consultant for HBO's The Comeback and co-authored the book Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood with Teri Garr. As an actress, Henriette has appeared in many feature films and television comedies. She appeared in The Brady Bunch films as Alice the maid. She also appeared in an episode of Friends as nurse #2 in the eighth season; episode 23: The One Where Rachel Has a Baby.
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