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...like browsing through the Sunday TV listings. Couplehood, by Mad About You co-star Paul Reiser, has been in the Top 10 for the past eight weeks. Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man, by Home Improvement's Tim Allen, just landed at No. 1. Jerry Seinfeld's SeinLanguage spent five weeks in the top spot last fall and is about to come out in paperback. Dennis Miller, Garry Shandling and Ellen DeGeneres (star of ABC's Ellen) have books in the works...
...Seinfeld's book is pretty funny, if you can keep his stand-up delivery in your head. Here he is on magicians: "What is the point of the magician? He comes on, he fools you, you feel stupid, show's over ... It's like, 'Here's a quarter. Now it's gone. You're a jerk."' And on people picking up dog poop: "If aliens are watching this through telescopes, they're going to think the dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other...
Reiser is sort of a more evolved Seinfeld. This guy is married, see, and so he talks about the little problems, compromises, joys and frustrations of married life. The trouble is, his insights aren't all that original or funny. Like: "You become a little team ... Your partner becomes the one person in the world you can go over to and say, 'Do I have anything in my nose?"' Actually, Reiser is funnier with stuff like how dumb fish are. "They don't see that whole pattern. Worm/death. Worm/death. I would catch...
...want to go to Rudenstine's anyway," said Crimson police reporter Marios V. Broustas '97, who was dressed as Kramer from TV's "Seinfeld." "Two years ago he only handed out healthy stuff...
...Nielsen rating of 18.3, ranking in the top five among all prime-time series. It trounced Chicago Hope so thoroughly that the rival show had to slink away to another time slot. To be sure, ER gets a major boost from NBC's powerful Thursday-night lineup, anchored by Seinfeld. But that didn't help a limping L.A. Law in the same time slot last season; ER has improved on that show's audience...