Grave Reiser December 31, 2008 2:53 PM | permalink

In dumb internet news, Paul Reiser, best known as the star of "Mad About You," but best loved (by me) as the major league corporate wanker in "Aliens," has not, repeat, NOT died.

This report comes despite two mysterious lines that appeared on his Wikipedia page, which read ""On December 27th, 2008 Reiser was discovered dead in the Squallahassee  River where he reportedly enjoyed fly fishing." Seeing as this sentence incorrectly reported his death, it is also safe to say that it's still up in the air as to whether Reiser liked fly-fishing either.

I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I knew that Reiser, (the author of the bestselling books "Couplehood" and "Babyhood") was still alive because the front table at my local Barnes & Noble wasn't covered with copies of  "Corpsehood," Reiser's  inevitable posthumous humor book. I fully expect it to appear shortly after the comedian's actual death, and for it to feature dozens of charming, lighthearted anecdotes about the trials and tribulations of being slowly devoured by maggots.