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Danny Jacobson is known for Roseanne (1988), Grease Live on Broadway (1978) and Mad About You (1992). He has been married to Amy Rosenbaum Jacobson since 31 July 1988. They have two children.
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- Danny Jacobson
Mad About You is an American television sitcom starring Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt as a married couple in New York City as they navigate life together. In later seasons, the couple has a daughter.
- The Original Pitch to NBC Was About Cars and Thirtysomething.
- Paul Reiser Met Helen Hunt While He Was Writing The Pilot.
- Teri Hatcher Was Almost Jamie.
- It Didn't Test Well at first.
- It Took Them A While to Come Up with The Name of The Show.
- A Baby Meant The Series Was Over, According to The Creators in The beginning.
- Reiser Really Hated The "Aww"S from The Studio audience.
- Lisa Kudrow Went Against Her Agent's Wishes to Do The Show.
- Hank Azaria Based Nat on A Guy He Grew Up with Who Really Talked That way.
- The Fourth Season Featured A "Blue Period."
Paul Reiser and Danny Jacobson pitched NBC executives Warren Littlefield and Jamie Tarses a show about the life of a couple in private—not the version you'd see at a party, but the more honest version that comes after that. "When you leave the party or the dinner, it's you and your wife in the car," Tarses recalled of the pitch. The two also compar...
Reiser met Helen Hunt—who at the time was sharing a house with a good friend of Reiser's wife—at a dinner party. Though Hunt wanted to focus on her burgeoning movie career, the pilot script changed her mind. "Paul had said he wanted to do a show about the moment when a couple has left a party and just gotten behind closed doors and then the truth c...
The role of Jamie Buchman ultimately came down to two people: Hunt and Teri Hatcher. Hunt won out when she "brilliantly" imitated Reiser trying to decide what to eat, one of the scenes in the pilot. Hatcher ended up playing Lois on Lois and Clarksoon after instead.
"The testing on Mad About You was not great," Preston Beckman, NBC's then-executive vice president of programming and planning,told theLos Angeles Times in 1999. But the research indicated that everybody loved the couple. Larry Charles, who would serve as executive producer of the series in its fourth and fifth seasons, admitted that it was Reiser ...
Richard Kind, who played Dr. Mark Devanow, recalled that the show was not allowed to call itself Reiser, so was known as The Paul Reiser Project deep into the summer before its fall debut. Kind found out about the final title in the studio lot. "One day I pull into a parking space, and I see a thing that says Mad About You. And I go, 'Oh, my God! T...
Jacobson and Reiser agreed in the early days of their series that the sound of a baby crying meant the show was over. But the fifth season ended with the birth of the couple's daughter, Mabel. NBC had pushed for the couple to have a baby all along.
For the first six episodes, the show was shot both with an audience and without one. While they decided Mad About You was best with a live crowd, Reiser said the "awww"s that the series sometimes elicited "shriveled"his spine. After getting talked out of telling the audience to cut it out, Reiser had the "awww"s edited out of the audience track of ...
Lisa Kudrow portrayed "Karen," a woman who had two lines on a blind date with Paul in the first season flashback episode "Met Someone." The future Friends actress said she was about to be forced to get a day job when her agent called to tell her Jacobson was offering her the part that would become Ursula Buffay. The agent suggested she pass. Becaus...
Hank Azaria claimed that the man he was mimicking told him he really loved the character Nat Ostertag, without realizing Azaria was using his voice. Azaria got the part by hanging out on set all the time (he and Hunt were a couple from 1994 to 2000) and eventually pitched the powers-that-be the character of Nat, which he had been working on during ...
Jacobson left the show after season three, and Larry Charles took over as showrunner. "I was not interested in further perpetuating the romantic myth of marriage," Charles said. "They had supposedly been married four and five years by then. Well, you've become bored with each other by then, you're onto each other's shtick already ... My goal was to...
Danny Jacobson is known for Roseanne (1988), Grease Live on Broadway (1978) and Mad About You (1992). He has been married to Amy Rosenbaum Jacobson since 31 July 1988. They have two children.
- Jane Kenney
- Paul Reiser (Paul Buchman) Paul Buchman is an indie documentary filmmaker who struggled for recognition after film school, but soon he was living the dream in N.Y.C.
- Helen Hunt (Jamie Buchman) Jamie Buchman was working on her education after moving to New York, and eventually opened a PR Firm. Her ongoing and challenging relationship with her mother-in-law is a wonderful source of humor for the show.
- John Pankow (Ira Buchman) Ira Buchman is Paul’s cousin who worked for Paul’s father, Burt, at Buchman’s Sporting Goods. While the two are close friends, a hidden rivalry surfaced when Ira took ownership of Buchman’s Sporting Goods upon Burt’s retirement.
- Anne Ramsay (Lisa Stemple) Lisa Stemple is Jamie’s older sister, and for lack of a better phrase, has incomprehensible psychological problems, making her character unsteady by nature.
Mad About You: Created by Danny Jacobson, Paul Reiser, Peter Tolan. With Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt, John Pankow, Leila Kenzle. Mad About You centers on the trials and tribulations of a married couple living in New York.
After a brief stint with the husband-and-wife comedians, Jacobson wrote episodes for the irreverent "Soap" and was a writer/producer on the Pam Dawber sitcom "My Sister Sam." From 1988 to 1990, he was a writer and supervising producer for the hit working class sitcom "Roseanne," starring temperamental comedian Roseanne Barr.
