I felt personally insulted that HBO would broadcast a worthless turd like this. Every single "joke" was predictable, forced, and old. The chick playing the wife made the Saved by the Bell girls look like Meryl Streep. Louis knows he can't act, right? Yeah, so did Ray Romano and Tim Allen, but they cast women with talent to take up the slack. Louis' choice of the wife reflects the collosally poor judgment in every single facet of the show. In this era of Curb, Extras, and The Office it is inexcusable to produce and air work this incompetent, tedious, and unfunny.

I am physically angry at HBO for giving this air time, and bewildered that Louis C.K. isn't hanging his head in shame, pleading that this turd not get out to the public.

I liked it -I thought it felt kinda like All in the Family. The jokes were sometimes obvious - but half were pretty funny which it saying alot for TV. I really like the fact that it feels like your kind of watching a play. And the guy above is right that the funniest parts are Louie's interactions with his African American neighbors.

This may be the least laugh-inducing half hour I have ever witnessed.
Painfully bad.

Not to mention, the set looked horrible.
Show looks like it was filmed on a high school stage..

I thought it was good. Won't appeal to everyone but then again nothing does that.

Took me a while to warm up to "The Comeback" which formerly had this time slot.

I watched most of it last night. I laughed at some parts, but it seemed like they were being raunchy just because they could, not because it was funny, plus the "studio audience" was so annoying! I know it was supposed to be a real studio audience and not a laugh track, but it sounded fake and still felt like they were trying to tell us when to laugh.

I liked it, personally. TV.com has the pilot episode available to view for people in the US:
http://www.tv.com/lucky-louie/show/22532/summary.html

It's not really cutting-edge, it's not satire, but it's not quite a traditional comedy, either. And while I wouldn't call it in the same league as Entourage, I certainly wouldn't bash it the way some critics have. Which is odd, because I usually agree with Tim Goodman.

matt roush's review for which tvsquad provided the link in "tvguide in 60 secs "

Paired with Entourage is HBO's uneven first attempt at a "classic" sitcom, Lucky Louie (10:30 pm/ET), filmed in front of a studio audience. And that includes simulated sex scenes.

Ewww is right. Aiming to take Roseanne-style domestic realism to a new graphic level, Louie stars comic Louis C.K. as a mopey married-with-kid mechanic. Gripes about money and especially sex are common, delivered with cringeworthy crudeness.

The funniest running gag involves Louie awkwardly trying to bond with his new African-American neighbors. Understandably, they try to keep him at arm's length. At least.

i've seen it. Tim Goodman is being kind.

I have to agree with Adam. I don't know who the comedian was but I thought he was funny. I liked also when he was talking about when he plays hide-and-seek with his daughter. For any one who has kids or young relatives it's basically how he describes it. One has to hide where they tell us and then when they hide we have to pretend we can't see them searching all over the place even though we know exactly where they are. I guess one must have seen the guy explaining it on Leno to actually realize how funny it was.