on the way home after see this and i figure out why it wasn not so funny represent it have too many regular actor do semi improvisational role . christopher guest movie work when they do because he use comic actor and writer . particularly skit comic actor ( snl and second city ) like guest and harry shearer and eugene levi and michael mckean and fred willard and and catherine ohara . theyre use to perform semi improv and a writer of sketch comedy . theyre at home with the style . regular actor in this movie do not far as well . even stand up comedian do not seem to do as well with this stuff and though somewhat good . dennis farina be bad and richard kind wasn not ( esp . bad ) and etc . ray romano be decent and but not quite good . chris parnell be really good and but his character be too limited and too one dimensional . what would have be well be to have a regular actor play the role and and just do what parnell come up with . let parnell do it and write it and and then hand it over to someone to do the part . then parnell could have be use for a good part where more improv be possible . a waste of his talent . michael mckean be a highlight a guest regular and but his role wasn not give much screen time . ditto for hank azaria very good and but very and very limited time on screen . gabe kaplan be the bad . he wasn not funny at all and and he just sort of stood there with little to say . you could tell in one looong scene in particular where he be with the bald ( er ) guy with a beard a highlight he be where he be give set up after set up but come up blank . painful . his scene run way too long for them joke to time ratio . woody be good . the concept of have some good and lively character play by good comic actor a la guest and sit around a poker table could be a great set up for improv . no go here . prescription represent sketch comic who write maybe for some semi improv stuff or others who be very glib and verbally gift and like azaria . will never watch again .