PAUL REISER

what has he actually ever done apart from My Two Dads?

Truly, he was an asshole's asshole.

http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|96602|1|,00.html

I think about the little people. Not often. I spend most of my time with the people who work with me -- the woman who brushes my teeth, the man who puts on my shoes, my bedwarmers -- I have four or five women who sleep in my bed from 7 until 9 and then at 9:05 I ask them to leave and I go right in bed and it's snuggly.

remember me?
http://stumpedmagazine.com/photoarchive/3278.jpg

i still love that guttenberg piece...

"My belief is that it's up to you to really understand me. At one point, you'll write something brilliant and somebody will peruse that article and go 'Guttenberg's brilliant.'"

So glad this wasn't a Crêpe thread.

I own the Mad About You dvd.
-- gabbneb (gabbneb)

Good in Aliens, good in Diner.
-- n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, July 28, 2005 12:41 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

Ditto ditto. But I saw this Falk movie trailer, and he needs to be kneecapped.
-- Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, July 28, 2005 12:42 PM

this is the best show ever btw

Paul Reiser: The poor man's Steve Guttenburg?

Impossible.

I love the time he was on SNL and did "Mad About You Alien," the most hilarious lazy "what has the host been in? hmmm...how can we combine those 2 things?" sketch ever.

Guttenberg on the reasons we haven't seen much of him lately:
I'm not a worker, really. I'm more of a playboy. Here's the deal: You make a lot of money so you don't have to work. You don't make a lot of money so you can work.

^^^^
Gutte Bomb

Mad About Shoe

this is happening

http://www.nbc.com/the-paul-reiser-show/images/headers/comedy-paulreiser.jpg

Yeah, wtg NBC. What America really wants in 2011 is more Paul Reiser.

this is the best show ever btw

― gabbneb, Monday, June 23, 2008 11:20 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lmfao

that photo montage... so... now

It's like look at all the difft things he can do

*makes mental note to rip bump this thread sometime*

I don't really like Helen Hunt, but I'd totally watch a sitcom starring Paul Reiser and Beyonce.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, October 30, 2006

Oh man, this is the first time I've wanted avatars on ILX. Why, there's 13 excellent ones in that single picture! ILX, home of Paul Reiser.

I saw part of My Folks on TV a couple of weeks ago. Goddamn.

God damn.

Saw in the newest Entertainment Weekly that one of his kids turned him onto Muse, and Absolution is now one his favorite albums. I don't know what that has to do with anything, but I thought it was weird.

i just watched a clip of mad about you to see if he was as terrible as i remembered.

he was.

even worse, he was performing with a distinctly uncomfortable looking steven wright.

Saw in the newest Entertainment Weekly that one of his kids turned him onto Muse, and Absolution is now one his favorite albums. I don't know what that has to do with anything, but I thought it was weird.

I saw that as well, it was really weird.

what's weird about that, exactly? Muse is probably the single most likely current popular band kids these days would be successful in getting their middle-aged parents into.

im MAD ABT THEM personally

I don't really like Helen Hunt, but I'd totally watch a sitcom starring Paul Reiser and Beyonce.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, October 30, 2006

― es o see kay (buzza), Monday, November 8, 2010 2:06 AM Bookmark

Clearly, this would be called "Put a Ring On It"

or "mad about hugh" - paul reiser has a layabout brother, hugh, who's always forgetting to take out the trash

IrrePAULaceable

Ha, I have no idea what prompted that post.

Wanting to watch Paul Reiser and Beyonce in a sitcom?

ROCK BOTTOM REISER, starring Bill Callahan as Paul's layabout brother.

I went to college with his cousin, always liked Diner, Aliens and his early standup. Bailed as soon as the Helen Hunt sitcom came along.

what's weird about that, exactly? Muse is probably the single most likely current popular band kids these days would be successful in getting their middle-aged parents into.

The idea of anyone besides emo teenage girls enjoying Muse.

reiseroni - paul reiser and beyonce open a homespun organic durum wheat pasta business

the sun also reisers - paul reiser plays a freelance journalist bumming around europe who falls in love with a be-shorted, cardigan-wearing beyonce

reiser and shyne: paul reiser and def jam recording artist shyne inherit an unprofitable daycare center - but their biggest challenge is dealing with the center's head administrator, beyonce knowles

I was a childhood fan of the 818s in Dewey Dec (humorous non-fiction) so it really annoyed me that, long after Bill Cosby wrote Fatherhood and Childhood, that Paul Reiser came out with a book called Couplehood.

There was like a whole chapter devoted to how your fingers intertwine with your other's fingers when holding hands and how uncomfortable it really is.

You know how people spoof Seinfeid with "Hey, what's the deal with yellow pencils?" That's what you'll find in Couplehood.

I wanted to say "Well that's what you'd expect from a guy whose best idea for a documentary was to film a day in the life of a penny," but that's not something the real Paul Reiser actually did. I watched way too much Mad About You in my life.

reiser and shyne: paul reiser and def jam recording artist shyne inherit an unprofitable daycare center - but their biggest challenge is dealing with the center's head administrator, beyonce knowles

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, November 8, 2010 1:14 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ok lool

man I remember reading couplehood as a kid for some reason, there was a part about how much more time people spend putting soap on their chests than they do on their feet

when in the shower obv

all day every day

http://www.northernlightsindustries.com/choadrunner/images/reiser.jpg

hahahaha what the fuck

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooolhahahahaha

thumbs way up

lol

:-O

wtf?

Paul Reiser's 'Unusual' move: Writing and recording with singer-songwriter Julia Fordham

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/12/paul-reisers-unusual-move-writing-and-recording-with-singer-songwriter-julia-fordham.html

Muttley Bosco Records

Why did I bookmark a Paul Reiser thread

reiser and shyne: paul reiser and def jam recording artist shyne inherit an unprofitable daycare center - but their biggest challenge is dealing with the center's head administrator, beyonce knowles

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, November 8, 2010 1:14 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

kinda brilliant! tracer for the win.

"Under every funny guy there's a melancholic chap longing to break out," said Fordham.

"And by the same token, in every beautiful chanteuse, there is Shecky Greene inside - Jerry Lewis lives inside," countered Reiser.

i opened this thread to see whether it was started by horseshoe or heave. surprised its neither.

i'm sorry, waht? i'll have you know i'm indifferent to paul reiser.

yah but CELEBRITY CAPS LOCK

<3 that this is an insult to u tho

isnt he in that village ppl musical

oh ha that makes sense! i was just like, look i'm okay with my ilx identity being forever linked to mark ruffalo but...

sorry i snapped at u plax; it's this paper i will never be done with making me cranky.

i just have this great img of some1 being like "hey lets watch this mad abt u eppy" and u gasping w/ indignation

well that would indeed be my reaction tbf

luckily no one ever says that

i sortof recall liking that show?

haha i'm not sure i've ever seen an entire episode of that show

i watched that show. probably not surprising. it was better than richard lewis's show with jamie lee (much better), but not as good as raymond. or seinfeld obviously. but it had good moments. he's just old-fashioned. he could have been playing the catskills in the 50's.

i would probably like it; i like all the tv

him and helen hunt were getting a million dollars an episode by the end. i liked the other characters. they had good people on it. i still like king of queens better though.

eric stolz was always showing up on mad about you; why? he vaguely annoys me, too.

i will watch any stand up comic sitcom.

i watched it when it was on and i watched reruns. but i haven't seen it in a long time.

he's a pro. i like pros. that show could be funny!

I had a big crush on Helen Hunt when I was like 12. Never much cared for Paul Reiser tho. His appearance in The Aristocrats was particularly painful.

i loved helen hunt too. and mad about you was the last moment in time when she was bearable. i think she was just trying to emulate jodie's transformation from child actor to serious lady. but jodie is a god and few can scale those heights without falling.

i didnt kno HH. was a child star

more of a lifer. not really a star. she was on t.v. for years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a56YWEpJ5_8

it took a while for me to realise that hunt being a child was a bit before my time. also shes not in bugsy

man, youtube brought me to this. this is intense! um, probably belongs on the Family freakout thread if there is one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbzwctTxptA&NR=1

i really need a Family box set. i don't even remember how many seasons there were.

He's back...

The Paul Reiser Show hails from Reiser and Jonathan Shapiro. It stars Reiser as himself enjoying the quiet life at home with his wife Claire (Amy Landecker). Thrown together by circumstance, Reiser and some friends, including Jonathan (Ben Shenkman), Habib (Omid Djalili), Fernando (Duane Martin) and Brad (Andrew Daly), form an unlikely comradeship - and a pretty lame basketball team.

I saw the previews for this awhile back… and I'm tempted to say that at the time, it wasn't called "The Paul Reiser Show".

Amy Landecker, btw = neighbor in A Serious Man

lol @ the lone comment on the article:"My monitor automatically went into sleep-mode while reading about this show."

Amy Landecker, btw = neighbor in A Serious Man

At least he's traded up from Helen Hunt.

Replacing "Perfect Couples" fwiw

Why did I bookmark a Paul Reiser thread

― manic pixie dream police (s1ocki), zaterdag 11 december 2010 18:51 (3 months ago) Bookmark

xpost for a moment I was like "That's still on TV?" and then I realized I was thinking of Perfect Strangers hahah ooh boy

Now, Paul Reiser has something to really be mad about.

NBC cancelled "The Paul Reiser Show" on Friday after just two episodes, TheWrap has confirmed.

The "Mad About You" star's critically panned return to television debuted to the lowest ratings in network history; 3.3 million viewers and a 1.1 rating in the key 18-49 demographic.

The bleeding showed no signs of stopping as  Reiser suffered an 18 percent drop in its second week.

wow. that was quick. it wasn't very good. a pale copy of Curb. would have thought the other nbc shows would have carried it for a while. it worked for veronica's closet anyway.

plus i think reiser has just been out of the game too long or something. he was sooooooooooo broad and spastic and schticky. and he looked terrible.

debuted to the lowest ratings in network history

is this true? like, of any show on any major network in the whole history of television?

oh it's just nbc, durr

It was a bad call, Ripley, a bad call

Saw a commercial for The Tonight Show on tv tonight saying Reiser was a scheduled guest one night this week. WHAT EVER SHALL THEY DISCUSS NOW?

In another great "Tonight Show" decision, NBC booked Paul Reiser to appear with Jay Leno to promote his new show -- and kept the stage open for him to dig his claws into the network after they cancelled his sitcom last week.

Reiser, whose "Paul Reiser Show" was canned by NBC after just two episodes, got some tough jabs in against the network in his appearance with Leno on Monday night, alluding to their flailing, incoherent strategy and miserable ratings.

"NBC, to my knowledge, they don't traditionally make bad decisions. Have you heard that? I don't know what your experience is," Reiser deadpanned to Leno, the center of the great Late Night War a year ago. Reiser defended Leno in a column for The Huffington Post as the conflict with Conan O'Brien and NBC raged.

"It turns out they said we enjoy missing you more than actually having you," he joked. "But listen, I don't take it personally. Listen, when you're the last place network, you don't want to jeopardize that. You've found your niche. Stay there. So I get it."

i always thought ira was the real talent on mad about you anyway. is that showtime show he's on with matt leblanc any good? episodes.

Episodes is pretty good imo, worth checking out

ira killed it in 'a serious man', looking forward to seeing him in 'luck'

seems like yr confusing Richard Kind from Spin City with John Pankow from Mad About You.

oh shit...no wait, richard kind was on 'mad about you', he just wasn't ira. he was "mark".

^ i think i've been doing this for like 15 years

anyway, he's great. fuck ira.

o wait then maybe not

richard kind is a bit of a one trick pony imo

serious man was not the same trick

more different context than anything else imo

"But listen, I don't take it personally. Listen, when you're the last place network, you don't want to jeopardize that. You've found your niche. Stay there. So I get it."

surely keeping his weaksauce show with his terribly-acting IRL kid and its record low ratings would have ensured, rather than jeopardising, the last place?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUY_1925uRM

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41fHoGuzraL._SS500_.jpg
FAMILYHOOD

damn, was hoping for Cancellationhood or Irrelevancyhood

Still mad he cribbed the -hood memoir suffix gambit from the superior Cos!

you can't take away paul reiser's hood pass

Lately I've been thinking Raoul Peiser would make a good pseudonym.

ontendereiser

contendereiser

The show stars Reiser as... Paul Reiser. It's been a few years since Paul's hit TV series went off the air. Since then, he's been enjoying the quiet life at home with his lovely wife, Claire (Amy Landecker, "A Serious Man") and kids, and generally minding his own business. Lately, however, Paul has been thinking that it's time he did something new, something meaningful. But what that next thing might be, he has no idea.

In his quest to figure it out, Paul is both helped and hindered by his new "friends." Like most men his age, Paul didn't choose them. They're the husbands of his wife's friends, the dads of his kids' schoolmates. Thrown together by circumstance, Paul and his cohorts, including Jonathan (Ben Shenkman, "Angels in America"), Habib (Omid Djalili, "The Infidel"), Fernando (Duane Martin, "All of Us") and Brad (Andrew Daly, "MADtv") form an unlikely comradeship - and a horrible basketball team.

how did this miss?

NBC's put worse sitcoms on the air lately

bummer that a gig for Andy Daly went away though

not convinced that a US remake of Review With My1es Bar1ow is the best use of his talents either

unless he's able to include something for daddy

Reiser says one night "I was performing at a charity event and I had such a great time, and such a great audience I asked myself why I wasn't doing this more." So he started from scratch, calling up comedy clubs in LA, and fine tuning his act.

So what's it like to be back on stage twenty years later? "It's great, but it doesn't change, it's as hard and as great and as challenging as it was when I started as a 22 year old" says Reiser. And his favorite part? Interacting with the audience.

"When you make a movie, it can be months or years sometimes before you get reaction, but (with stand up) it's right there. The audience is laughing, you change course accordingly and it's like a high wire act. It's exciting, fun and rewarding."

cool revive bro

I suspect his real life personality is closer to his character in Aliens than any other role he's played.

he's good in Beverly Hills Cop in that 1 or 2 scenes.

We all have our dreams, our desires for history.

http://gawker.com/the-saddest-email-paul-reiser-wants-more-mad-about-you-1668769519

prefer sequel to Diner

ilx is mean to Paul Reiser

Seems like a friendly, professional dude.

TBF, I'd probably do the same thing if I were in his shoes. Although if I were in his shoes, I would not have made Mad About You in the first place.

Condescending Gawker writer is overselling the depressing-ness of this email.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d4z2NQXgtEY/Tlz000sFlTI/AAAAAAAAAYk/Vn4iJ8c9_rU/s640/nope.jpg

he is by far the best thing about Whiplash, and a welcome presence on FX's Married.

nothing sad about that email, except that sony etc are a confusing mess.

he really is an excellent country club asshole in this Red Oaks series.

I own the Mad About You dvd.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:24 PM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is the best show ever btw

― gabbneb, Monday, 23 June 2008 20:20 Bookmark Flag Post