• Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 4, 2007
  • Season #: 1
User Score
3.8 out of 10

Generally unfavorable- based on 60 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 60
  2. Negative: 35 out of 60

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  1. ehc
    Mar 5, 2007
    10
    i liked it!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. lyndap
    Mar 12, 2007
    0
    Could only watch the first five minutes until the incredibly annoying laugh track made me want to run from the room screaming or change the channel
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. DrewF
    Mar 12, 2007
    0
    Most unfunny, uncomfortable-first 10 minutes of a sticom EVER. How does something like this get made?
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  4. gabriell.
    Mar 4, 2007
    5
    I guess it's worth mentioning that the only 100 review is from the New York Post, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who owns Fox. Go figure.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  5. JorgeM
    Mar 5, 2007
    0
    What where they thinking? I didn't even laugh... Awful attempt.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  6. DaveB
    Mar 7, 2007
    0
    Steve Corerrel should sue Rob for Ripping off the 40 year old virgin in this latest fox lemming
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  7. NormanD
    Mar 7, 2007
    6
    I laughed a couple of times which is more than I can say for a few comedies that have hit the airwaves over the past year.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  8. Blake
    Apr 9, 2007
    0
    Literally the worst sit com in years. It was not clever. It was not funny. It was not imaginitive. I'd guess they thought they could take another great Daily Show person and have automatic sucess. But the writing was just terrible. I'm guessing some demographic found this funny. But not me. I really expected better out of Cordry than this junk.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  9. DaveM
    Mar 14, 2007
    10
    What makes the ironic satire of this show simmer even more is the fact that many detractors cite the use of a "lame laugh track," or "stale ideas," completely oblivious to the sarcastic purpose of these devices in the show. Like Andy Kauffman taunting wrestling fans, the Winner manages to cause critics to become self-caricatures by reaction.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  10. JeffH
    Mar 20, 2007
    10
    so funny I was in tears. Corddry is hilarious.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  11. DjrP
    Mar 5, 2007
    1
    I could barely watch it...what is Rob C doing?
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  12. jime
    Mar 5, 2007
    2
    Bad bad laugh track. Totally disappointed by this show. Loved RC on Daily Show but this is terrible. Couldn't watch past the first scene it was so bad.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  13. JackR
    Mar 5, 2007
    5
    Its not all that bad. The laugh track is EXREMELY annoying, The premise is good and the acting fine, the real problem is the cheezy 70's production values that makes "The Winner" look like The Brady Bunch done on half the budget.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  14. FredC
    Mar 5, 2007
    0
    How did this show ever get greenlit, even by Fox? The humor is at a fourth-grade level, and the sexual conversations between the main character and his 14-year-old neighbor are downright creepy. Fox has sunk to a new low with this one!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  15. JudithM
    Mar 5, 2007
    7
    Undeniably, the main plot and most of the scenes are embarrassingly tired. But, there are enough funny and surprising lines to keep me watching (ie, in the scenes between Gene & Josh). Hopefully the writers will drop the clichéd love interest (really, she’s hot AND a smart AND really sweet AND bizarrely unconscious of her appeal?) and the even more overused ‘embarrassing coming of age’ scenes. What’s left is hilarious and endearing, a rare trick in the ‘offensive-funny’ genre (my fave genre, of course, but ‘sweet’ usually doesn’t enter the picture). Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  16. [Anonymous]
    Mar 6, 2007
    3
    Has potential to be at least a bit funny but the laugh track is horrible and entirely distracting. We aren't in the 50's anymore, people like to decide when to laugh for themselves.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  17. TimG.
    Mar 6, 2007
    9
    I love this show. Rob makes it. And by the way, it's NOT a laughtrack! I should know, I sat through two tapings!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  18. MaxW
    Mar 6, 2007
    3
    I really wanted this show to be funny, but starting the minute I heard that horrible laugh track (why do they still use these?) I knew this wasn't going to be a winner.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  19. KevinB
    Mar 6, 2007
    8
    The pilot started off a bit slowly, but after that I feel it really took off with a lot of laughs. It's my type of humor; awkward, absurd, and maybe a little offensive to some. This is a good show, let's hope Fox keeps it.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  20. MandiZ
    Mar 11, 2007
    0
    This show is horrible, it needs cancelled immediatly
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  21. JonMuchmore
    Mar 12, 2007
    0
    Very disappointing. The laugh-track is at times overwhelming, but it does the viewer a service by blotting out some of the embarassingly stupid dialogue. It's a one joke premise that is stretched way too thin. There is one winner in this mess - the viewer when they change channels.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  22. WendellF
    Mar 12, 2007
    3
    Hard to watch, predictable, unoriginal, etc. This really shouldn't be plugged using seth mcfarlane's name so much, it gives you the false impression that it's funny.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  23. johns
    Mar 14, 2007
    8
    I really enjoy acting and writing but the laugh track is so offensive it makes the show hard to watch...dump the fake lughs and let the show quietly entertain ...and succeed! That guy is good!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  24. elenaa
    Mar 26, 2007
    10
    Loved it, howled with laughter..
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  25. RobU
    Mar 4, 2007
    1
    Leave it to Seth McFarlane to find a way to make Rob Corddry NOT funny!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  26. LarryS
    Mar 4, 2007
    1
    The show is pretty bad. It has the most fraudulent use of a laugh track I have ever seen. I give it a 1 for the hot asian massage hooker lady.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  27. kingsXrulz
    Mar 4, 2007
    1
    The "1" is for the few jokes that worked. Otherwise, this show is god-awful. If handled properly, silly can be very funny . . . but stupid is stupid, period.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  28. darink
    Mar 4, 2007
    0
    shit quake
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  29. jamesr
    Mar 4, 2007
    0
    This show is actually worse or as bad as war at home. How fox did this is beyond me.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  30. MatthewS
    Mar 4, 2007
    1
    This. Show. Is. Horrible. It feels like it was written by a 12 year old -- and a stupid 12 year old, at that. The writing is bad, the pacing is bad, the jokes are not funny... I was very disappointed.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  31. JWat
    Mar 4, 2007
    7
    If you can get past the first five minutes of the show and the inserted laughs, the show is actually quite hilarious.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  32. PatrickB.
    Mar 5, 2007
    3
    Laugh tracks? Shame on you, Seth. There's very little topical humor, and the dialogue is so stilted. You can't be as responsible for Family Guy as it seems if this is the kind of junk you'll put your name on.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  33. Eric
    Mar 5, 2007
    5
    Corrdry is a great talent and is being wasted by such poor writing. Oh, and who decided on that laugh track?? Such a mess out of what could be a pretty decent show.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  34. AndyMillman
    Mar 5, 2007
    5
    Are you having a laugh?
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  35. jordanb
    Mar 5, 2007
    7
    I thought it was pretty good. its better than how i met your mother (which sucks)
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  36. JosephA
    Mar 5, 2007
    10
    I can't believe how much i laughed at his show. Very funny & creative!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  37. RandyT
    Mar 6, 2007
    7
    People seem really split on this show. I like it. It's not a rip-off of Get a Life, it's a more mainstream version of it.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  38. Truth
    Mar 6, 2007
    0
    More like The Loser!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  39. BrandonS
    Mar 6, 2007
    0
    Why would such a funny guy make such a standard piece of junk sitcom? Horrible laugh track, bad writing, lame acting. It took me about a minute and half to decide I'd never watch this one again. Corddry, you blew it.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  40. MartinL
    Mar 7, 2007
    3
    I gave it this rating only so people may look at it rather than other people who wrote "0". But this is definately a 0. Not even remotely funny, and every day conversation, with no sarcarsm or flare, has a laugh track playing every other sentence. Awful
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  41. MarcL
    Mar 7, 2007
    0
    I tape shows and watch them later on my VCR. I watched the first episode, trying to find something positive and funny. I turned off episode #2 after 5 minutes, it was unwatchable. Not even worth the 30 minutes of electricity my VCR uses. I will take 2 extra minutes to program my VCR this Sunday, taping Fam Guy and the Simpsons, and avoiding this lame piece of crap. A complete waste of time.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  42. MollyK
    Mar 9, 2007
    10
    cute...
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  43. mcdope
    Mar 9, 2007
    6
    The show has potential IF they turn off the horribly annoying laugh track that does distract.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  44. GregH
    Mar 18, 2007
    2
    A total waste of a talented Cordry. Horrible. Cheesy.Awkward dated laugh track. Not a laugh anywhere. Make it go away. And Rob, go back to the Daily Show!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  45. EricC
    Mar 23, 2007
    0
    Another Daily Show anchor goes on to star in a show. Cordry now joins the likes of Colbert and Carell. The only difference is that The Office and Colbert Report are easily the most hilarious shows you'll find. The Winner is all out crap. The most unfunny sitcom I have seen since The War At Home. And that is very unfunny. I can't wait to see this show fail, and oh, it will fail. The only thing I enjoyed was seeing Cordry, my least favorite Daily Show correspondent, end up in a pile of vile smelling burning trash like this. Atleast with a laugh track, guys like Jeff H and Dave M won't feel so alone in their laughter, even though they desperately and hopelessly are. I avoid watching Fox now because I might see a comercial for this offensively bad show, a comercial which would only promise another 30 minutes in television hell. Expand
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Metascore

Mixed or average reviews - based on 24 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 24
  2. Negative: 11 out of 24
  1. 75
    Thanks to Corddry's social misfit charisma, Ricky Blitt's affable lowbrow lunacy flashes with a sharp, dizzy wit.
  2. It's a hoot.
  3. "The Winner" may not be able to go the distance, but it's a fun little show in the here and now.