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Will Ferrell and Adam McKay may be fresh off a box office success with The Other Guys, but their TV legacy may still need a little cementing. Gary Sanchez Productions has a new show on Comedy Central called Big Lake, and while we're excited to see Horatio Sanz, Chris Parnell and Deborah Rush gainfully employed, we're not sure this laugh-tracked sitcom about a disgraced investment banker moving back home is the best place for them. Especially since it bears a vague resemblance to Kelsey Grammer's failed sitcom Hank. Whoops!
Of course, the main character in Big Lake is nowhere near as famous as the dude who played Frasier. Upright Citizens Brigade performer Chris Gethard (pronounced "geth-ard") plays the young funds manager who loses millions, gets fired and has to move back in with his angry investor father, pill-popping mother and a little brother who runs a criminal empire. Right now, the formulaic jokes in the commercials (and Gethard's earnest delivery) are leaving me a little cold, but after The Other Guys, I'm willing to give the show a couple of episodes to impress me with some non-sequitur comedy. And I'm hoping Gethard will rise to the level of his co-stars, because he's the keystone in an otherwise hysterical group, and skinny Horatio Sanz doesn't pull as much weight as he used to.
Big Lake premieres tonight at 10/9C on Comedy Central.
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