One can only imagine the pitch meeting at which comedian-turned-film actor Denis Leary told ABC programming execs he wanted to write and star in a show about a pill-popping, Scotch-swilling, chain-smoking, adulterous New York City cop who utters obscenities as casually as he exhales. It'll be a 30-minute show, Leary probably told them, shot with hand-held cameras that make it look like a documentary. And it'll be funny, yeah, only it won't have a laugh track. And sometimes, it won't even be...
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Get a Job: Denis Leary plays Mike McNeil, a cop with a mint tin full of pills, a stomach full of Scotch, and a bed full of mistress.