Robert Illes

The Carol Burnett Show, which in its 11th season featured guest stars Rock Hudson, The Jackson Five, James Stewart, Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, and Betty White, among others, earned Robert and James their second writing Emmy.

After Joe and Sons went off the air, Bob and Jim travels as TV writers took them to programs as varied as The Love Boat, Steve Allen's Laughback, Steve Allen's 3rd Annual Miss Las Vegas Show Girl Pageant, Phyllis Diller's 102nd Birthday Party, (Dick) Van Dyke and Company (reunited with Bob Einstein and Steve Martin, and for which they received their second Emmy nomination), One Day at a Time, the classic Fernwood 2Night, starring Martin Mull and Fred Willard, renamed America 2Night (for which they received an Emmy nomination for Best Writing), What's Happening!!, The Captain and Tennille Show (where they were often on camera as comedy performers), and The Carol Burnett Show.

In extracurricular activities, Robert Illes has been a guest judge at The World Championships of Performing Arts since 2007, and has for many years been an online mentor for the Writers Guild of America West. He has written extensively for progressive publications, most notably the Valley Democrats United newsletter and the website LA Progressive, and contributed pieces for several magazines on the writing business.

Robert has been developing a television writing course and is writing a book on TV writing and his experiences in the television industry. He hosted an internet radio show, Funny is Money, on Shokus Radio nightly at 8 PM Pacific time from 2006 to 2012.

In 2000, Illes traveled to Florida to produce another pilot for Sherman Hemsley, and later wrote for the Discovery Channel series "Guilty or Innocent?".

Illes and Stein returned briefly to radio on Los Angeles' KIEV (now KRLA) for six months in 1992, with frequent guest appearances by Pat McCormick and Bob "Super Dave" Einstein.

In the mid 1990s, after working together on the talk show parody Night Stand, Illes and Stein went their separate ways, having worked together for over 25 years.

Robert and Mary Ann divorced in 1982, after which he married actress Barbara Pariot, the voice of Valerie on Josie and the Pussycats and for many years a story editor at Warner Bros. They have one son, Nicholas, an artist.

They went on to create a CBS television series for Richard "Clemenza" Costellano in 1975 titled Joe and Sons which lasted for a half a season in 1975-76. Also in the show were future Tony award winner Barry Miller and Jerry Stiller.

As a result of that experience, they met William Morris agent Michael Ovitz, who was himself a fan of the Stein and Illes radio show. Although barely older than the two writers, Ovitz took them under his wing. In 1971, they worked with co-writers Bob Einstein ("Super Dave") and Steve Martin on a short lived syndicated series, Tom Smothers' Organic Primetime Space Ride. In 1972, they were hired as writers on The New Bill Cosby variety show for CBS, where they settled into writing Bill Cosby monologues.

Robert Illes married Mary Ann Herrera in 1970. She was a fan of his radio show, and they met when she visited the studio with her cousins. They had two daughters, Angela and Brooke, and one son, Nathan. Brooke earned a master's degree in speech; Nathan is a songwriter and much sought after drummer in a number of Los Angeles bands and an ex-champion softball centerfielder and leadoff batter and Angela is a pastry chef. They have all appeared in Robert's television productions over the years. They have also produced four grandchildren.

Robert Illes (born May 17, 1948 in Downey, California) is an American award-winning screenwriter, television producer, playwright and author.

Robert Illes was born in Downey, California to immigrant parents. His father Peter Illes (1920–2002) who spent some 40 years in the printing and stationery business in Los Angeles, was a native of Hungary, emigrating to central California in 1931. Mother Pauline Corne (1924- ) is a native of Norwich, England. His parents met and married during World War II in Norwich, where Peter was serving in the U. S. 8th Air Force. They moved to the Southern California area after the war, eventually settling in Los Angeles. Robert has a brother and two sisters.