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"Always have been," says the com- ical cut-up who stars in the NBC Sunday night sitcom, "My Two Dads." "I always enjoyed doing stand-up comedy. When I was in 5th and 6th grades," Reiser recalls, "I used to get these creative writing assignments and run home to do them. Then the next day, I'd volunteer to read them in front of the class. Yeah, that was my first per- formance, and I still enjoy doing - stand-up, playing to those three people in the back of the room." The room is much more crowded these days. "My Two Dads," a series about a young girl and the two fathers who love her, is at- tracting audiences in the millions. But then Reiser's performances have always attracted attention at corn- edy clubs around the coun- try, on television talk shows, even in film. Indeed, Reiser, star of the hit film Aliens,is no stranger to success. Not even when he was a teen titan of rock, teaming up with other musi- cians in a group called the Upper Deck, all decked out in rock regalia for gigs in Reiser's native New York. "We played all the Purim carnivals," says Reiser, whose early audiences rooted for his roots-inspired rock. "The first thing I ever wrote was for a school play in Hebrew school," recalls Reiser. "I tried to make those shows hip." The results: Reiser's rendi- tion of Ringo riffing on religion. "There was one show I did called 'The Beatles Meet Purim,"'says Reiser. "We had Esther sing `I Want to Hold Your Tallit."' Music always held sway with Reiser, who tuned up for a career in composition in college, studying at the State University of New York at Binghamton. "I en- joyed composing,"he says. "I did well in college." Comedy clubs provided a different kind of education for Reiser, who took to the stage in Greenwich Village while still in school. There was something stimulating about the staccato sound of applause that Reiser recog- nized as a music all its own. The music major made a major break from family Paul Reiser with his television daughter. soon after school to pursue his muse. "I first went into my father's (wholesale health food) business," handling the Oklahoma sales region, recalls Reiser. But health food didn't nur- ture his need to perform. "I was out there for a month in Tulsa; it was the first time in my life that I was really alone," he says. He needed comedy for company. "I remember call- ing up this club in New York and hearing the laughs in the background." It was music to his ears; Reiser told his parents that he was leaving the health- food business. "It was an emotional scene, 'but my parents were suppor- tive,"says Reiser. But how would their son support himself? "They can wish you well," he says of his folks, "but they need that pUblic affirmation to know you're successful." Reiser found that affirma- tion in the hands of others — the applause meter registered Reiser as a success story during his first appearance on the Johnny Carson show. Suddenly, Reiser says with a smile, his businessman dad could point with pride to the progeny busy making a name for himself on TV: "Look, he's on Carson." Reiser was — and con- tinues to be — on a roll. Since graduation from col- lege, he has graduated to film roles, debuting in Diner (1982) as Modell the mooch, and then appearing in Bever- ly Hills Cop (1984) and its 1987 sequel, as well as Aliens (1986), as well as club dates. Reiser will appear in the upcoming movie Crazy People, with Dudley Moore. "We're talking to Dudley about him doing our show," Reiser says of "My Two Dads." Certainly that would be a coup — Moore has never ap- peared on a TV sitcom before. "Dads" has survived despite its apparent status as a network stepchild. "We've been moved around" (the time and day slots), says Reiser. Finding a home on Sunday night is a homecom- ing for the show, which started series life on that night in 1987. But home is where the heart is, and homelife is certainly at the heart of this sitcom about two desperate dads raising a daughter. If the series' premise seems farfetched, focusing as it does on two former friends whose intimacy with the same woman produced a daughter whose paternity the woman, since deceased, never revealed, Reiser doesn't seem to mind. "Most shows have absurd