The Paul Reiser Show

The older you are, the more you might respond to the oft-clunky, middle-aged craziness of The Paul Reiser Show.

I'm not saying the copycat comedy of The Paul Reiser Show isn't funny, but it doesn't compare favorably to the cracked originality of Community or 30 Rock.

Some of the humor is decent enough, but some also has the same feeling as Paul's life: We're here and there's nothing we can do about it, so we might as well tell jokes.

It's all incredibly broad, and lacking in any real point of view.

Much of the action arises from Reiser's inability to manage his mouth, but where David boldly owns the dark and limitless empire of his self-absorption, Reiser still wants to be the happily married Dad who may say the wrong thing once in a while but whose heart is still in the right place. A guy who's just like you, only much richer with his own show. But you can't have it both ways; just ask Larry David.

The series is better when it strays from Mr. David's format, but mostly it follows it too closely.

Despite solid work from the show's supporting cast, none of the elements of this show really work. So far, the only thing it has going for it is that it kicked "Perfect Couples" off the air.

It suffers from predictable jokes that are more likely to conjure a hint of a smile, not a belly laugh.