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NO RE-SALE. NO ARCHIVE. Mill Creek Entertainment1. TV Clip- \"Mad About You\"AP EntertainmentNew York, 17 May...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eSHOTLIST:RESTRICTION SUMMARY:TV CLIPS ARE CLEARED FOR MEDIA BROADCAST AND/OR INTERNET USE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THIS STORY ONLY.  NO RE-SALE. NO ARCHIVE. Mill Creek Entertainment1. TV Clip- \"Mad About You\"AP EntertainmentNew York, 17 May 20162. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Reiser/Actor - on how the portrayal of marriage on 'Mad About You' was realistic:\"At the core of the show was always two people who loved each other and wanted to be good at this and they both wouldn't take no for an answer. They both - it gets tempting in every relationshp there are moments when you go, 'I'm just gonna throw in the towel,' but that's too easy. The real fruit is usually on the other side of that conflict and when you push through it and if you're both working hard you can probably get to what the real problem is. Yeah, so we worked really hard to make sure that the mutual affection was there and that it was evident to people. You know on a lot of shows it becomes very easy to throw one liners and zingers for the sake of the audience. Like, you can laugh at that but our show was - we tried as best we could to make it seem real. And in real life people don't just insult each other without some repercussion, some bruised feeling, some you know, blow back. We tried to make it sound as much like real people as we could.\"Mill Creek Entertainment3. TV Clip- \"Mad About You\"AP EntertainmentNew York, 17 May 20164. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Reiser/Actor - on casting Helen Hunt in 'Mad About You':\"What happened was Helen Hunt and my wife had a mutual friend who threw a dinner party one night. And it was just when we were forming the pilot of 'Mad About You,' and I had seen Helen in a film but never had met her. As we left, I turned to my wife and I said, 'She would be great as you. What do you think?' And my wife said 'Absolutely' so I kind of had her in my mind and the minute we read the script together - so I called her - and I remember I called Helen and I said, 'I have this show that I think you might be really you'd be terrific at.' I remember I called Helen and I said, 'I've written this script and I think you would be great and she came to my house and we read it and it was instantly so real it actually confused me. There was a scene where Paul and Jamie are in the kitchen and they're, whatever they're having breakfast. So rather than just read it Helen got up in my house and started acting. She started washing the dishes. And I actually said, 'Helen, you don't have to do that, we're gonna get it.' She goes, 'No, that was the scene.' I went, 'Wow,' it was so real it threw me. That's the kind of actress she is. She just really digs and makes it real, so it was there from the beginning. It was really great creatively. We almost never had a big variance of opinion. We were always the ones that would say, 'You know, we both think it should go this way or go that way' and we both wanted the same story to be told. It's a couple who loves each other but for whom things are not always perfect or easy and, you know, life is messy. Life is not straight and perfect.\"Mill Creek Entertainment5. TV Clip- \"Mad About You\"AP EntertainmentNew York, 17 May 20166. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Reiser/Actor - on marital advice:\"I always tell people, the truth is I've only been married one time to one woman so I don't know that much. In fact, I've only learned one thing and if I had to condense it it comes down to this, and I've told this to guys - single guys - it doesn't seem to help. But, the only thing I've learned and this is really ironclad is that sometimes when you're with a woman you're going to want to say something. But, if there is a voice in your head that says, 'Ddon't say it now.' Trust that voice. That voice will never lead you wrong. Sometimes you have a question. It could be a reasonable question. But if you hear a voice that says, 'I wouldn't ask her now' yeah. Listen to it. Never will fail.\"AP EntertainmentLos Angeles, 28 April 20157. Medium of Paul Reiser and his wife Paula Ravets arriving at the premiere of Helen Hunt's movie \"Ride\"8. Wide of Paul Reiser and his wifeSTORYLINE:PAUL REISER FINDS THE FUNNY IN MARRIAGEThe NBC sitcom \"Mad About You,\" starring Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt, has been off the air now for 17 years and yet it still holds up as one of the most realistic portrayals of marriage.The show followed a married couple living in New York experiencing the ups and downs of life,from the mundane to major events.\"At the core of the show was always two people who loved each other and wanted to be good at this and they both wouldn't take no for an answer,\" explained Reiser in a recent interview. \"It gets tempting in every relationship there are moments when you go, 'I'm just gonna throw in the towel,' but that's too easy. The real fruit is usually on the other side of that conflict and when you push through it and if you're both working hard you can probably get to what the real problem is. Yeah, so we worked really hard to make sure that the mutual affection was there and that it was evident to people. You know on a lot of shows it becomes very easy to throw one liners and zingers for the sake of the audience. Like, you can laugh at that but our show was - we tried as best we could to make it seem real. And in real life people don't just insult each other without some repercussion, some bruised feeling, some you know, blow back. We tried to make it sound as much like real people as we could.\"Reiser co-created the show and wrote some of show's episodes.He recalls meeting Hunt and deciding she was the right fit to play his on-screen spouse.\"What happened was Helen Hunt and my wife had a mutual friend who threw a dinner party one night. And it was just when we were forming the pilot of 'Mad About You,' and I had seen Helen in a film but never had met her. As we left, I turned to my wife and I said, 'She would be great as you. What do you think?' And my wife said 'Absolutely' so I kind of had her in my mind ... I called Helen and I said, 'I've written this script and I think you would be great and she came to my house and we read it and it was instantly so real it actually confused me. There was a scene where Paul and Jamie are in the kitchen and they're, whatever they're having breakfast. So rather than just read it Helen got up in my house and started acting. She started washing the dishes. And I actually said, 'Helen, you don't have to do that, we're gonna get it.' She goes, 'No, that was the scene.' I went, 'Wow,' it was so real it threw me. That's the kind of actress she is. She just really digs and makes it real, so it was there from the beginning. It was really great creatively. We almost never had a big variance of opinion. We were always the ones that would say, 'You know, we both think it should go this way or go that way' and we both wanted the same story to be told. It's a couple who loves each other but for whom things are not always perfect or easy and, you know, life is messy. Life is not straight and perfect.\"Besides \"Mad About You,\" Reiser has written a book about relationships called \"Couplehood\" and he recently had a recurring role in the TV series \"Married.\" He still says he has very little marriage advice to share.\"I always tell people, the truth is I've only been married one time to one woman so I don't know that much. In fact, I've only learned one thing and if I had to condense it it comes down to this, and I've told this to guys - single guys - it doesn't seem to help. But, the only thing I've learned and this is really ironclad is that sometimes when you're with a woman you're going to want to say something. But, if there is a voice in your head that says, 'Ddon't say it now.' Trust that voice. That voice will never lead you wrong. Sometimes you have a question. It could be a reasonable question. But if you hear a voice that says, 'I wouldn't ask her now' yeah. Listen to it. 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