Paul Reiser News

Carol Leifer talks about realizing she was gay as a middle-aged woman, and adopting a child at 52.

A lot of us like to joke about how our jobs can make us crazy. It's pretty bad when you're happy that hurricane season is weeks away in the hopes that something big will blow in and give you a day or two off of work.

When it comes to comedy careers, Carol Leifer has been there, done that. Besides being a popular standup comedian, Leifer, 52, is an Emmy-nominated writer and producer for work on shows like Seinfeld, Larry Sanders, and Saturday Night Live.

It's the voice that gets you first. His hit TV series, Mad About You , may have wound down some 10 years ago, but the moment you hear Paul Reiser's familiar, gently ironic voice, you're waiting for a punch line.

Before the days of DNA testing and the Massachusetts Supreme Court, a girl living with two fathers was a high-larious sitcom conceit.

It wasn't a great film, but I thought it should have done better. If you like TITANIC or that sort of film, don't mind creaky storylines and cringeworthy dialogue, it is worth a rental.

High School Musical 3: Senior Year: The story in this sequel is so poorly written that you'll wonder whether its creators made it up as they went along.

Right now, of course, that includes his duties as the creator/writer/showrunner of CBS sitcoms Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory .

We were at Al Gore's Green Ball tonight at the National Portrait Gallery where everything was--you guessed it-- g-r-e-e-n and we mean everything from Will.i.am's shirt to Blair Underwood's tie.

Oh yeah, and one of the singers from American Idol is getting married. Paul Reiser's Death? Early this morning, the former Mad About You star's Wikipedia page was edited to include his death.