Watched the show for the first time tonight. I read the other review prior to writing this and most were not kind. I don't know of John Mulaney's stand up and other projects, but John.....please stop the sitcom project. I, like many, had high hopes due to Short and Gould, but I turned away about 20 minutes in. I just couldn't continue to watch the continuous string of non funny scenes. Please Fox...cancel this show and concentrate on another. Not one laugh in 20 minutes and I'm now wondering about the credibility of Fox and future comedy efforts. I could go on, but think my point is made. Dude...sometimes things just don't work out.

I'll start off by saying that I am huge John Mulaney fan. His stand up special New in Town is hilarious and one of my all time favorites. So when I heard he was getting his own show I was pretty excited. The thing that kills this show is the format. Multi camera shows with a studio audience/laugh track are old school. They are painful to watch in this day and age. The only way to get past this is for everything else to be so awesome that this sin can be forgiven. Unfortunately, it falls short here. Again though I blame the format. If you watch his stand up you can see that he is quick and has a certain flow to his humor. The multi camera strategy of say something funny, pause, cue laughter, and repeat feels very un-natural and does not mesh with his style.

John Mulaney (John Mulaney) is a stand-up comedian who gets a break to write jokes for faded comedy legend Lou Cannon (Martin Short) as the host of a stupid game show. He lives with roommates Jane (Nasim Pedrad) and fellow comedian Motif (Seaton Smith). They have an annoying hanger-on in Andre (Zack Pearlman) who pines for Jane. Oscar (Elliott Gould) is their outlandish neighbor.While Mulaney is likable, he is no Seinfeld and the close approximation does not help at all. The main difference comes from Martin Short. I find his character way over the top. It's not the worst show in the world. I just think the comparison to Seinfeld really sinks this show and it could never win in that fight anyways. Mulaney just doesn't have as much charisma as Seinfeld. The other problem is that the TV world may be moving on anyways. Seinfeld may not even be successful in today's landscape.

So our lead here, Mulaney, is a an award winning writer and comedian, neat. The show has a another strong supporting established comedian, Martin Short, sounds even better right? But unfortunately these two pillars are missing the third essential one to hold up the show, and that is any actual qualities of a show. It has virtually no real story, a show about nothing eh? Sound familiar? Not so bad, there are tons of shows about nothing. How about the jokes? We'll on paper I'm sure they're great, out of these folk's mouths, they sound forced and are just horrible. But even that isn't a show killer. Bad jokes and terrible actors are abound on successful TV shows. What puts the death nail into this steaming pile of a show is Mulaney himself. The guy just can't act, not even a little. It's not bad acting, it's non-existent acting, like watching a mannequin who sort of sounds like 'Raymond' awkwardly read lines like a 3rd grader public speaking in front of his class for the first time. It's awkward and painful to watch him speak, worse than a fork on a chalk board painful. He obviously has no idea what he's doing, and whoever green light this, well warm up that resume cause your days are numbered. So go ahead and skip Mulaney, you're not missing anything.