Such a frustrating disappointment

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Absolutely brilliant

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Rob Corddry isn't successful when we watch "The Winner". His character becomes a big shot much later (and that can't possibly be a spoiler, it's in the opening narration!). Before then, his always down, but never out young man is forced to examine exactly what it is that makes his life so different than other guys his age.Ricky Blitt (of "Family Guy" fame) created this great program. Exec producer Seth Macfarlane lets the live action (not involving a football headed baby who looks suspiciously like Stanley Kubrick) get clever, but not too cute. This show was a great two weeks for me. Six originals over a fifteen day period (two each Sunday for awhile). You don't get that too often! I've captured these on lousy videotape and can't wait till I can buy them on DVD, hopefully with a commentary track on each that they deserve. I can only imagine what kind of special features will be included. Are there any scenes that were too racy for the Fox network?Corddry is a wickedly funny man with the right material (as in "Harold and Kumar 2"). Here, he's a lovable "loser" (for lack of a more overused term) one can root for. This peculiar specimen of a male television lead role is behind all his peers (in age anyway) when it comes to growing up and becoming very burned out on life. The mysteries of sex, love, parenthood and so much else are still awaiting him. The fingerprints of "Family Guy" are noticeable on "The Winner". And that's a good thing if you're a fan of the former. The difference in live action is in not letting the imagination run so wild, wondering what a voice's physical source looks like while acting. The guests on this show include Katey Sagal ("Peg", the great anti-homemaker on "Married With Children") as a teacher who instructs Rob about some things he should have been taught a long time ago."The Winner" won't appeal to all (as so many comments here have already demonstrated). But it's worth trying, if the disc hits stores soon and if you're bored with the state of comedy on TV these days.

Everyone seems to rip shows up before they even get to know the character. This show is different in that it's set backwards in time and they can line the plot with jokes about how time turns out...It's got some great moments between Rob and the kid, some might find it disturbing, but it's life for this underdeveloped adult.Just try to put yourself in a good place when you watch it, I thought it was pretty funny, with new predicaments they are being placed it popping up everywhere.Don't trash this so quickly...Rob was great on The Daily Show and Seth has his hand in it. There is a lot of foreshadowing and perhaps the program will break through and get some new elements.In the future watch pilots neutrally, not hurtingly.

I didn't see the pilot but I'm watching the show right now (3/12/07), and this has to be the ABSOLUTE WORST THING I'VE EVER SEEN.Is the person running the laugh track machine deaf and can't read lips or is he an outsourced worker living in India and does not understand English? This show won't make it to the end of March.Painful is an understatement. When are they going to have the episode where he gets bullied and then starts taking karate lessons? Or is that one next?Bring back Herman's Head and Greg The Bunny.

Personally, I think this show has some true potential - its main characters are a 32-year-old balding man and a 14-year-old boy that are so much alike that they practically finish each other's sentences. The concept of having not only Glenn (Rob Corddry's character) helping the kid (Josh) meet girls with what they both think are the best pick-up lines in the world, but then they turn around and have the kid helping Glenn date his own mom!! The fact that Josh feels comforted by the idea of his new friend getting with his mother makes the show worth watching.For those of you who are not familiar with Corddry's work on the Daily Show, a lot of his quirks and nuances make the character and the comedy work - he really does make you think he has the mind of a young teenager (that has problems with talking to girls).A blossoming young boy of thirty-two (>'.')>