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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.
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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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.
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- 1992-09-23
- Comedy, Romance
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- THE ORIGINAL PITCH TO NBC WAS ABOUT CARS AND THIRTYSOMETHING. 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.
- PAUL REISER MET HELEN HUNT WHILE HE WAS WRITING THE PILOT. Reiser met Helen Hunt—who at the time was sharing a house with a good friend of Reiser's wife—at a dinner party.
- TERI HATCHER WAS ALMOST JAMIE. 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.
- IT DIDN'T TEST WELL AT FIRST. "The testing on Mad About You was not great," Preston Beckman, NBC's then-executive vice president of programming and planning, told the Los Angeles Times in 1999.
Biography. The co-creator of "Mad About You" and "Two Guys and a Girl," Jacobson first became known on Broadway, where he starred in "Grease" as T-Bird Kenickie. Jacobson--who admitted he auditioned for the beloved musical as a goof--then appeared on the soap opera "One Life to Live" and on television commercials.
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 July 31, 1988. They have two children.
May 23, 1999 · In the early days of “Mad About You,” Danny Jacobson says, he and Paul Reiser were in agreement: The sound of a baby crying signaled the show was over. As Jacobson, the show’s co-creator, puts...
