"The Winner" - Anything But

I watched an episode and about a half of "The Winner" Sunday, the Fox program allegedly based on a man growing up/living in Buffalo starring Rob Corddry, and it is absolutely awful.
While the show is supposed to be in Buffalo, and many have made a big point of this (as if someone saying the show is based in Buffalo should get Buffalonians excited and makes the program better), except for one or two lame O.J. Simpson "jokes" and one or two background shots with none of the cast in it, it could be in any city or town anywhere.
But this on its own does not make "The Winner" a loser of a program, nor does the annoying laugh track. The story and writing are as bad as a national television program can be; unfunny, cliched, ridiculous and about as far from reality as possible. For the most part, people do not talk or act this way, and on the whole, the show is a real waste of Corddry's talent, best seen on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart."
The only part of the show with any redeeming value, mainly in the first show, was at times the relationship between Corddry's Glen Abbott and Josh Miller, played by Keir Gilchrist. Both see themselves as outsiders and sometimes losers, and when the writers didn't go for cheap, overdone jokes and use sex jokes in totally unappealing ways, the two began to establish a genuine rapport.
But this is definitely not anywhere near enough to bring me back to watch "The Winner" again. And for information sake, Val strongly disagrees with my opinions on "The Winner."