“Just be honest with me,” Brad Garrett asked his “Everybody Loves Raymond” co-star Ray Romano.
“Am I gonna make the cut?”
Emmy winner Garrett, who was at the 77th Emmys with Romano to present the award for outstanding comedy series, was talking about the show’s “In Memoriam” reel.
It’s a part of each ceremony where talents who have died are honored on the big screen. But not everyone makes “the cut” to be on the broadcast — some remembrances are reserved for the Television Academy’s online memorial.
Two actors left off CBS’ Emmys broadcast this year are tied to New Jersey either because they were from here or because of their show’s place in pop culture.
Both of them died weeks before the 2025 Emmys.
The memorial segment started with a tribute to Jersey City native Malcolm-Jamal Warner from his “Cosby Show” TV mother, Phylicia Rashad.
Warner, who played Theo Huxtable on the show, died suddenly July 20, after drowning on a Costa Rica vacation. He was 54.
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But Danielle Spencer, who starred as Deadra “Dee” Thomas on the ABC comedy series “What’s Happening!!” was not included in the reel.
Spencer, a Trenton native, was 60 when she died of cancer Aug. 11.
After playing Dee as a child starting in 1976, when she was 11 years old, Spencer returned to the character in “What’s Happening Now!!” in the 1980s.
READ MORE: N.J. native Danielle Spencer, ‘What’s Happening!!’ child star who played Dee, dies at 60
Spencer later became a veterinarian who played one onscreen in James L. Brooks’ Oscar-winning movie “As Good As it Gets” (1997) with Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt and Greg Kinnear.
A star from “The Sopranos” was also not included in the “In Memoriam.”
Jerry Adler, who played Herman “Hesh” Rabkin in the New Jersey-set series, died Aug. 23.
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Adler, who was 96, started acting later in his career, when he was in his 60s, after working as a stage manager on Broadway and in TV.
As Hesh, he played a friend and adviser to Tony Soprano.
READ MORE: ‘Sopranos’ actor Jerry Adler, who played consigliere to Tony Soprano, dies at 96
Adler was also in the series “The Good Wife,“ “Northern Exposure,“ “Rescue Me,“ “Transparent,“ “Raising Dad” and “Mad About You” and films like “Manhattan Murder Mystery” and “Synecdoche, New York.”
Both Adler and Spencer are included in the Academy’s online “In Memoriam.”
Watch the 2025 Emmys memorial segment below.
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