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Here is the premiere of a new comedy series called “Big Lake”. The series follows three buddies as they struggle to try and save their hometown, Big Lake.In the premiere of this comedy about a disgraced Wall Street whiz kid who slinks back to his parents’ house, Josh Franklin (Chris Gethard) vows to recoup his father’s squandered retirement fund with help from an old friend and a former teacher. Meanwhile, Josh discovers his younger brother is not the model child he appears to be. Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell costar. Cable networks have been on a roll this summer, introducing one well-regarded or highly-watched new show after another. They're doing so well that even a procedural that would doesn't fit the usual cable
mold, 'Rizzoli & Isles' is pulling in numbers that are outstripping most of what's on broadcast TV. Comedy Central's first attempt at a multi-camera, live-audience sitcom falls short for a couple of reasons. Most importantly, it's just not funny. The two episodes that CC sent for review, which air back-to-back tonight at 10PM ET, barely elicited a laugh from me. It also fails in trying to establish an edgier form of the traditional sitcom.



Finally, it fails to mine its subject matter for deeper satire about the recession, going home after a fall from grace, and the fallacy of trusting people who say they can make you rich. 'Big Lake' tries to come off as an old-fashioned '70s or '80s sitcom that pushes the edges of Comedy Central's standards, but for some reason the attempt feels forced. When Josh sincerely tells his dad he'll do whatever it takes to make back the money he lost for his parents, Josh's dad says "F--- you." Jeremy is a latter-day Scarface, dealing in Ecstasy, answers to tests, and pretty much any other criminal endeavor happening in Big Lake. If Comedy Central really wants to get behind 'Big Lake,' they need to decide whether they want the show to be edgy for edgy's sake or funny with some edge. If it's the former, the audience just isn't going to be there for the long haul. Cable networks have been on a roll this summer, introducing one well-regarded or highly-watched new show after another. They're doing so well that even a procedural that would doesn't fit the usual cable mold, 'Rizzoli & Isles' is pulling in numbers that are outstripping most of what's on broadcast TV.

Comedy Central's first attempt at a multi-camera, live-audience sitcom falls short for a couple of reasons. Most importantly, it's just not funny. The two episodes that CC sent for review, which air back-to-back tonight at 10PM ET, barely elicited a laugh from me. It also fails in trying to establish an edgier form of the traditional sitcom. Chris Gethard plays Josh Franklin, a young financial whiz who was living the good life in New York. 'Big Lake' tries to come off as an old-fashioned '70s or '80s sitcom that pushes the edges of Comedy Central's standards, but for some reason the attempt feels forced. we get contrived, sitcommy stories like Josh trying to sell a Barry Bonds baseball to make a quick buck in the pilot and retaking a history test he failed ten years ago in the second episode. Former 'SNL' colleagues Sanz and Parnell are game in their roles, even if the material doesn't match their talent. And while Gethard is a better choice than Jon Heder, who was originally supposed to play Josh, he needs to tone down the super-sincerity a bit; Josh right now comes off as way too nice for me to believe he was a top Wall Street shark.