Conan O'Brien reveals he passed on hiring Ray Romano a year before his breakout success on the hit sitcom 'Everybody Loves Raymond.'

On a recent episode of his SiriusXM podcast, 'Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend', O'Brien revealed that Ray Romano had auditioned to be a monologue writer for his show in the '90s. The comedian turned down Romano,

O'Brien almost hired the TV star as a monologue writer for 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien,' but passed because they didn't have a spot open.

Everybody loves Raymond except for Conan O’Brien. Before Ray Romano hit it big with his titular sitcom, he was just another working stand-up comic in search of a steady paycheck. “He wanted to be a mo