Paul Reiser

At 68 years old, Paul Reiser has this physical status:

Born on March 30, 1956, Paul Reiser (born March 30, 1956) is an American comedian, writer, and guitarist.

Michael Taylor appeared in the 1980 film My Two Dads, Paul Buchman in the NBC sitcom Mad About You, Modell in the 1982 film Diner, Carter Burke in the 1986 film Aliens, and then as Jim Neiman in the Amazon Video series Red Oaks'. On Comedy Central's list of the "100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time" in 2004, Reiser ranks 77th.

Nuance Productions, Reiser's production firm, is based on one of his lines in the film Diner, in which his protagonist explains his dissatisfaction with the word "nuance." Dr. Reiser also stars in the Netflix supernatural-horror series Stranger Things.

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Early life

Reiser was born in 1956 in New York City, the uncle of Helen Hollinger Reiser (1919–2012), a homemaker who was one of the first women to graduate from Baruch College (191919–1989), and Samuel H. Reiser (1914–1989), a wholesale health food distributor who worked in the military. His family is of Romanian Jewish descent; he has three sisters. Reiser attended the East Side Hebrew Institute and graduated from Stuyvesant High School. He obtained his bachelor's degree at Binghamton University, where he concentrated on music (piano, composition).

Reiser was instrumental in student theater productions at the Hinman Little Theater, an on-campus community theater group based in Hinman College, Reiser's dorm neighborhood. Hinman Production Company was later renamed to Hinman Production Company. During summer breaks in New York clubs, he discovered his calling as a comedian.

Personal life

On August 21, 1988, Reiser married Paula Ravets. They have two sons: born in 1995 and 2000. He oldest son has cerebral palsy, which Reiser has discussed openly at fundraisers and other functions. Reiser is the cousin of screenwriter and producer Will Reiser, who is best known for writing the semi-autobiographical comedy-drama film 50/50 (2011).

Richard Epstein, the legal scholar, is Reiser's first cousin.

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Career

Reiser, who honed his talents as a stand-up comedian, had a breakout film role in 1982, a Barry Levinson-directed coming-of-age film. The character of Reiser, Modell, a closet stand-up comedian, attracted Hollywood's notice. He continued his success by playing a detective in Beverly Hills Cop (1984), a role he reprised in its sequel Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley. Reiser appeared in James Cameron's Aliens (1986), in which he played the evil Carter Burke, a role that even Reiser's own family booed as his character received his due attention; The Marrying Man (1991) and Bye Bye Love (1995)

Reiser appeared in My Two Fathers (1987–90) as one of two potential fathers of a teenage girl in the TV sitcom My Two Dads (1987–90), and later appeared in Mad About You (1992–99), a comedy series that he co-created in which Helen Hunt co-starred as his on-screen wife. He was also the co-composer of the show's theme song "The Final Frontier" (with Don Was), and he also played the piano for the theme's performance. Reiser's role in Mad About You received Emmy, a Golden Globe, an American Comedy Award, and a Screen Actor Guild Award for him. Reiser and Hunt earned $1 million ($1.6 million today) per episode for the show's last season. It was selected by Spectrum Originals in March 2019 as a 12-episode limited series, which will be available to Amazon Prime Video subscribers as of fall 2020.

In the British television film My Beautiful Son, Reiser played a man in 2001 as a man desperate to find his biological mother after finding he had a serious illness. In 2002, Reiser made a guest appearance on Larry David's HBO sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm. Reiser appears in the TV comedy film Atlanta (2007) as one half of a couple who are unable to keep away from each other after meeting at a funeral. Reiser collaborated with Julia Fordham in 2010 to produce Unusual Suspects, an American soldier serving in Afghanistan. Since being released, the two musicians embarked on an acoustic tour. For her 2015 album, You Gotta Love the Life, Reiser co-wrote the song "No There There" with Melissa Manchester. Reiser was the opening act for Manchester's career, who warned him that music audiences are overwhelmingly ardent on comedians, and that the last comedian opening for her left the stage in tears. In the chapter "Don't Worry If They Suck" in I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America's Top Comics (2010), Reiser addresses this warning and how he bombed at the Concord Hotel.

Reiser scripted and appeared in The Paul Reiser Show, a semi-autobiographical comedy series that aired on NBC as a mid-season replacement during the 2010–11 TV season. "This is wonderful," Reiser on the Stephanie Miller radio show "because you get to sit around and cheer for other shows to fail." However, the low-rated show was cancelled on April 22, 2011, owing to a lack of lead time and promotion by NBC prior to its debut (as well as poor scheduling). He co-created (but did not appear in) the 2017 drama Dr. Joe's... Johnny!, a guy who appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1972, was set backstage at The Tonight Show. The seven-episode season was originally planned for Seeso and was released on Hulu following the demise of Seeso. Reiser has appeared in films including Whiplash and TV series such as Red Oaks and Stranger Things in recent years.

Reiser has written three books: Couplehood, about the ups and downs of being in a committed relationship; Babyhood, about his experiences as a first-time father; and Families (published in May 2011) a collection of amusing essays. Couplehood is unique in that it appears on page 145; Reiser characterized this as his way of giving the reader a false sense of achievement. In 1996, Reiser appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, who was then a writer at the beginning of writing Babyhood. Since he hadn't decided on a name, he unveiled a prop book titled simply "Book" and with the same cover as Couplehood's.

Reiser appeared in season three of The Boys as The Legend in 2022.

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