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I’m sure everyone here is as excited as I am for tonight’s premiere of The Paul Reiser Show! Right? Finally, Paul Reiser, BACK ON TV!* Admittedly, I am probably not excited for it in the way that NBC hopes I would be excited for it. Two very different sets of expectations diverged in a yellow wood…But don’t worry, NBC (NBC is probably pretty worried, so I’m trying to calm them down), I’m definitely going to watch it! I’ve even created a fun drinking game for tonight’s premiere that you can play at home. Here’s the rules: drink every time:
- Paul Reiser seems completely out of touch with what the regular world for actual human beings is like.
- Someone should say something about how Paul Reiser is a multi-millionaire celebrity, but instead they say something that pretends like he is just an average Joe.
- An anecdote is told that was probably hilarious on a golf course in New Zealand or whatever, but it falls flat on your couch in your living room.
- A joke is made about Paul Reiser’s body, or wrinkles, or hair-line, or anything that suggests that somehow we all thought Paul Reiser USED to be pretty hot stuff but now look at him, which is not the case.
- Smug satisfaction creeps into Paul Reiser’s voice in a way that makes you want to hurl him into Whoops Ocean.
- Paul Reiser is somehow victimized, or made to look like an underdog, as if.
- The word “residuals” ISN’T mentioned.
- A reference to Mad About You is made in a manner that grossly overestimates America’s continued interest in Mad About You references.
- Hollywood is lampooned and derided with little to no acknowledgement that there is nothing more Hollywood than an aging sitcom actor’s new sitcom about being an aging sitcom actor.
This show makes you barf instead of laugh.
More rules after the jump!
Also drink every time:
Have fun, you guys. And remember: please enjoy alcohol responsibly, and most importantly, please do NOT actually play this game. Stay safe!
*Please, by now you know that I would never begrudge someone working, especially as they get older and work may or may not be harder to come by. So, congrats. But also, isn’t the whole point of this show that Paul Reiser doesn’t actually need to work anymore? And even if he did need to work, this is a pretty weird, self-serving, out-of-touch, millionaire’s playground of a way to go about it. So, a little teasing AT THE VERY LEAST seems in order.
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Also, you should drink every time you wish you were watching Curb Your Enthusiasm instead.
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Drink every time you remember that however bad this may be, at least you’re not watching Perfect Couples anymore.
Can I just drink and watch Archer instead?
Yes, I am fully committed to playing the drinking-at-home-alone part of this game tonight, but not the watching-the-show part. I think it will be fun!
Well I learned that if you open a bottle of vodka, it goes bad very quickly so you have to drink it all as soon as possible. Someone at ISIS told me that growing up…
You know Aaron Turner?
Drink every time you feel nostalgic for My Two Dads.
NOTE: It is this reason that I am drinking right now.
Drink everytime you don’t know what this show is about, so just once I guess really, seriously what is this show about?
Can we also drink every time we do not actually know who Paul Reiser is?
Or moreso, drink everytime someone walks in and says “Oh yea, this guy. He was in that show with that girl, from Twister, you know.”
My favorite Paul Reiser memory is of him getting eaten in Aliens.
“Fun drinking game” – this wine bottle
“UGH this drinking game is soooo laaaaaaaame” – that wine bottle
I was pretty amused by the promo where he just talks about how Will Ferrell is going to be on The Office.
Paul Reiser ain’t yo glamma boy
He’s FIERCE!!!
#not intended to be a funny and/or topical statement
♫ Now You Can Tear Paul Reiser Down… But You Can’t Erase The Memories… ♫
Here’s me and my friends after the first five minutes of The Paul Reiser Show. (We were a test audience.)
I’m guessing this audience didn’t test well, and they went with another one. Better luck next time!
OMG! I haven’t seen that picture since my sophomore year of high school (12 years).
Me and my friends were obsessed with Chundering. We would tell people to search “chunder”, and this would be like the first hit.
+1s for the rush of nostalgia and reminding me of how goofy we were.
YICK, man, here..
Drink every time you remember that this show has a terrible title.
Drink every time Andy Daly gives a reads a line devoid of any humor but actually makes it funny because he’s Andy Daly (if I am to believe the trailers, I’ll get wasted on this one).
I keep reading that name as “Anal Daddy”.
I’m sorry, everyone.
Andy Daly is the best and deserves his own show! Why are they pulling fossils out of the Old Not-Funny Comedian closet when a perfectly good Andy Daly is sitting RIGHT THERE? Ugh.
Is this the official Andy Daly appreciation thread?
Bring in the girls…
Paul Reiser is sort of the definition of gentle comedy. Drink every time you say to yourself “that’s funny”.
Or if you find yourself thinking “He’s right! As I’ve gotten older, sometimes my back IS sore when I wake up! I can relate to that.”
I read an early draft of the script and midway through the premier, Paul Reiser gets eaten by an alien with two sets of teeth and acid blood on planet [SPOILER ALERT] LV-426.
Whoa, I think Gabe hates Paul Reiser almost as much as facetaco hates Macs.
That’s not really fair. That’s like saying that you just hate one Teen Mom. It’s not Macs that I hate, it’s Apple.
To be fair, it’s not like Gabe hates only one rich celebrity who seems out of touch with reality.
My favorite part of the Paul Reiser show was the article on Yahoo talking about how this show has upset Perfect Couples fans. You mad, Perfect Couples fans!
Take away point, there are Perfect Couples fans
You guys remember when Reiser wrote that book, Seinlanguage? That book was EVERYWHERE.
Sorry for ignoring you, Paul Reiser of “My Two Dads,” but I have decided to focus on another drinking game, the premise of which is to drink every time Gabe says something that makes me want to send Videogum a valentine even if it is not valentine’s day. Example: “Whoops ocean.” Sadly, I do not have any liquor at work, so I have substituted “drink” with “write a run-on sentence.”
As Paul Reiser’s star continues to r(e)ise(r), I just realized: Greg Evigan is the poor man’s Peter Scolari.
Have you looked at his IMDB page? That man was in Poison Ivy: The Secret Society AND Earthquake in New York, two very excellent made-for-TV movies. Sure, they were no 10.5, but what is? WHAT IS???
I HAVE TO SIT THROUGH THIS TONIGHT?
When I was a kid, I was convinced that Mad About You was the saddest show on television (and it was, though not for the same reasons I’d initially posited). It seemed like every time my parents were watching it, something really sad and scary was going to happen (divorce, illness, etc). And for the longest time, before I really knew who Paul Reiser was, I knew him in my head only as ‘that guy from that sad TV show Mad About You; and now that I am older, I fail to see anything funny about him whatsoever.
What I’m saying is this: are we sure this show is supposed to be funny?
Paul Reiser should be sitting at someone elses desk, then the real host comes in and yells at him. Paul replies “this is not my office” the real host retorts “You’re damn right it isn’t! “.
Then we have a good show, then we drink.
Drink every time you remember he was in the movie Aliens
Paul Resier? more like Paul Lower my standards of comedy, you see what i did there?