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After airing just two episodes, NBC has canceled The Paul Reiser Show. From the Hollywood Reporter:
The comedy premiered to 3.3 million viewers and a 1.1 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, ranking as the network’s lowest-rated in-season comedy bow ever. Its second episode didn’t fare any better, collecting 2.5 million viewers and a 0.9 in the demo.
I don’t know what any of that means! What I do know is that the world is often a confusing and scary place, and it can really feel sometimes like it was systematically designed to destroy you, and yet every once in awhile, a decision is made in the opposite direction, as if the universe itself decided that enough was enough, and it was time to remind us all that there is logic and rationality and even hope to this fucked up marble spinning endlessly in the void. Perhaps there will come a day shortly before human beings achieve the final stage of our evolution into PURE ENERGY when there won’t even BE a Paul Reiser Show in the first place, but until we can breed “human fallacy” out of our systems, perhaps it is enough–it has to be enough–that The Paul Reiser Show is canceled after two episodes. Of course, our thoughts and prayers are with Paul Reiser’s son’s private school application during this difficult time. Also, please follow Andy Daly on Twitter. He is the best.
R.I.P. The Paul Reiser Show. You are in TV heaven now, enraging the TV angels who don’t understand why you exist, or why anyone would think a TV show about a bored millionaire with zero self-awareness would be a good idea.
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“What I do know is that the world is often a confusing and scary place, and it can really feel sometimes like the universe itself decided that enough as enough, and it was time to remind us all that there is logic and rationality and even hope to this fucked up marble spinning endlessly in the void, yet every once in awhile, it can really feel sometimes like it was systematically designed to destroy you.”
-Paul Reiser
I feel bad for/actually like Paul Reiser. I think his sitcom problems are the result of a rough childhood or something(?) and he’s just no good at handling them, like a lot of people. Plus, he makes some really good jokes, no BS.
I have nothing against Paul Reiser. He seems mildly funny and generally harmless. That is probably the biggest problem with the show. If he was an asshole, the premise might have worked.
The Paul Reiser Show to be replaced with The Chris Brown Show?
*puts Paul Reiser Show up ass*
This is my favorite new meme by far. Lovin’ it!
I feel bad for/actually like this meme. I think its overuse problems are the result of a rough childhood or something(?) and it’s just no good at handling them, like a lot of memes. Plus, it makes some really good comments, no BS.
I just wanted to fit in…
…My ass?
Okay, I’ll show myself out.
*puts self out door*
I think you nailed it. It would be like me starring in a sitcom where the comedy premise is that I have a small penis. The audience just wouldn’t buy it.
Gabe’s really mad about Paul Reiser.
Gabe is clearly from Soviet Russia.
i laughed at this joke, something i should probably be ashamed to admit. i’m upvoting it nonetheless.
“Paul! I saved your spot in the unemployment line.” — Helen Hunt
Looks like they’re going to have to HUNT for new jobs. I sure hope they can REISE to the occasion!
Logging in to upvote this will be the greatest thing I do this week.
I don’t even keep track of new shows on NBC anymore. I just have my DVR set to the Magnificent 3 (Community, Parks, 30). In the other free time, I revert to my 8 year-old self and play my new Mortal Kombat game. I’m sure it’s definitely better than what Paul Reiser had to offer.
Who’s excited to see Paul Reiser on Jay Leno tonight?!?!
Show of downvotes?
Jay Leno’s competition, probably.
Bah! See, nothing good comes from browsing the Tonight Show with Jay Leno website. Donna Darko.
Spider boner.
You know if you are a major network, probably the worst thing to do is allow the star of a sitcom that you just cancelled to have a 5 minute platform to air their grievances on one of your most highly watched properties. I mean what network would allow that?
Oh, right. NBC.
I feel bad for his delicious children. He’s probably going to have to sell them to a witch who lives in a house made of gingerbread.
Her show, The Tyra Banks Show, was also canceled sadly
I didn’t recognize the dude’s name, because I know him as ANDREW Daly of MadTV fame (fame?). Guess I can’t blame him for slightly altering his identity.
Woah, that was definitely a glitch in the Matrix. Was supposed to be replying to rootmarm.
So can we use this space to talk about Andy Daly being the best?
“Bring out the girls”
“that’s for Daddy..”
That episode with Patton Oswalt made me laugh so hard I started crying. I loved when they all started talking like him in that sleazy affect.
Of course the truth of that story is…
Episode of Comedy Death Ray Radio #74 with Andy Daly and Jason Mantzoukas is one of my favorite episodes of all time because Scott and Jason force Andy— in character as Patrick MacMahon the Irish storyteller— to recite a limerick about Obama Care.
“There once was a fella named Obama
He was sad because of the cancer that killed his mama
He wanted to make it better
So he rrrrrrrrolled up his sweater
And he handed it to Big Insurance and Pharma.
The man’s a master of his craft, especially because when they pressed him for further poems— actually written limericks he’s done (another complete improvisation)— Patrick suggests that Jason pick one out of his limerick book, and then when Jason cracks it open Patrick suggests Jason read one. So good.
You’re forgetting the best part of that episode: Rocky the Boston Terrier!
My personal favorite is Andy Daly as Hot Dog, the guy who keeps auditioning for Sha Na Na and, like all Andy Daly characters, is suicidal. “A kitten is a lot of responsibility, you have to feed it, you have to CLOTHE it..”
And of course it addressed the now defunct question, “What is up with Hot Dog?”
Ben Alterman. Episode 46. Listening to Jeff Garlin and Scott Aukerman give him tips on his stand-up kills me.
Obviously, Don Dimelo trumps all.
i want more Andy Daly in my life. Frequent appearances on CDR are not cutting it. At least we still have another season of Principal Cutler to devour before we need to find new ways to get our Daly fix.
TV Heaven? Try again Gabe:
I was beginning to doubt you, America. Now if only you’d come together and turn your televisions off whenever there is any mention of the so-called Tea Party so THAT bullshit is cancelled as well.
Looks like someone should have been looking over his shoulder…
JK — we don’t really know what was up with that, either. -NBC
I hate NBC!! Let me qualify: I’m a huge fan of The Office/Parks&Rec/30 Rock, but OMG the execs over there!!!!!!!!!! Perfect Couples didn’t work out after what, 5 weeks, and now Reiser didn’t work out after 2…..the way I see it, they have 2 major problems: 1) they don’t give shows a CHANCE to work and 2) they try to make STUPID SHOWS WORK!
yeah…. The Paul Reiser is a pretty horrible example of a show that should have been given longer. A 1.1 and then a .9 in the 18-49 demo? (aka, the demo that advertisers pay for during primetime making it the demo that matters, unlike the CBS friendly total viewers which sucked in this case anyway)
The show should have never been greenlighted, obviously, but it also should not have been given a second episode.
The execs at NBC keep changing, so they don’t really have a history of doing anything yet. After next year’s spring season we should be able to make more accurate statements about their habits.
Um, both of those shows are TERRIBLE. How is Outsourced still on the air? Why are they bringing back the Marriage Ref? (Full disclosure: I think Tom Papa is actually pretty funny, he’s just been given some really crap shows.) That awful music show? Where we’re supposed to care that you’re not voting on the attractiveness of the singers… by Christina Aguilera and the douche from Maroon 5?? That’s so ironic, it feels meta.
I’d rather paint a wall and watch it dry than sit through anything they’re creating outside of Parks and Rec, 30 Rock and Community and (I guess) the Office. Oh and SNL, but only when it’s light on Kristin Wiig. Also, why hasn’t Justin Timberlake or Jon Hamm or Alec Baldwin hosted yet this year? (Did Alec host yet, I forget…) Did we need Dana Carvey? No. Elton John? Lord no (though that ended up being a not so bad episode).
But don’t defend Perfect Couples. That show was unwatchable.
Evidently the point I was trying to make did not come across in my post. Perfect Couples was beyond lame, I hated it, I never even made it past the first 10 minutes of any episode ever. But it got a lot more weeks than Paul Reiser’s show, which of course was in indefensible project in the first place, unless you were watching it to play VGum’s drinking game. Both shows sucked. I guess what I’m trying to say is, the executives at NBC lack logic? Wasn’t really trying to make a grand contrary statement or anything. Was pretty much just trying to to agree with everyone about how awful these shows are, and that if these executives don’t believe in their shows enough to support them, they don’t need to put them on the air in the first place.
ahhhh, that’s a much better way of saying it.
Unfortunately, sometimes even the quality television gets overlooked and the networks have to pull shows they want to do well (from a personal standpoint, instead of simply a business one) in order to make money. (I’m thinking of Fox’s Lonestar) I think it’s easy to forget how much of a business the entertainment industry is sometimes because we as consumers feel like our tastes should be catered to at an individual level that doesn’t always line up to the national viewing habits.
Agreed!
Ahhhh. I was really nervous for a bit. Sometimes people get hot for Olivia Munn and forget how she ruins everything.
I watched an episode this weekend, I admit. But only because Henry Rollins appeared within the first five minutes. I had to watch the whole thing, just out of some sort of weird loyalty to an over the hill punk that I’ve been listening to for close to 15 years.
I can’t figure out who this show is for. The Good Wife is on the bubble because, while a lot of people watch it, too many of them are old enough to legally buy beer and thus useless to marketers (or something like that). So NBC decides to create a show based around Paul Reiser? I’m not saying I want to see Bam Margera: A Closer Look or anything, but Mad About You makes Everybody Loves Raymond feel hip and relevant. Also, format: is this show supposed to grab that chunk of the audience that is intrigued by Curb Your Enthusiasm but can’t handle the edginess? Do such people exist?
I’m concerned only because NBC’s exciting new slate of pilots includes this:
A Mann’s World. Don Johnson plays an aging heterosexual struggling to keep his edge as a Beverly Hills hairdresser.
So, I’m worried about NBC, is the point.
I dunno, NBC’s doing pretty good in my book. They still have the only 4 shows I never miss.
What’s even on the other networks — Dancing with the American Idol Amazing Race Stars?