The Crazy Ones: Pilot

This is one of the most unfunny sitcoms I have ever seen. It was a massive disappointment.
Simon Roberts (Robin Williams) and his daughter, Sydney (Sarah Michelle Gellar) run an ads company that it is deep trouble. It is about to lose a major client, the company of McDonalds. But Simon strikes a deal with them, an impossible deal, get a major star to sing the selected jingle.
Simon and his wing man, Zach (James Wolk) meet with Kelly Clarkson, playing herself, for drinks. The problem? Well, in addition to not singing jingles, Kelly wants an image change. She wants to be sexier and sing sexier stuff. So they decide to play that card. Zach and Kelly sing a sexy jingle and then try and talk to her out of it because it's just too sexy, but that doesn't work. Luckily, at the last minute, Sydney manages to save the day by somehow managing to convince Kelly that it isn't a jingle but a song instead. After selling the song and making a fool out of herself in a fancy restaurant, Kelly agrees to do the song and the day is saved.
Tada, that's the plot. It's not great and the acting doesn't manage to save it with assistant Lauren (Amanda Setton, much better in her small role on The Mindy Project) urging Simon to smell her hair to inspire him. The even sadder part? It does inspire him and he faces the board of directors. Andrew (Hamish Linklater) is also around though he isn't given much to do which is a shame.
Williams is a good actor and can truly be funny but this role just doesn't work for him. He loves when his daughter imitates his ex-wife and tells that him that she's leaving him. He smiles and says, "That's it." Odd. I haven't seen Gellar in anything else but she seems somehow miscast. Wolk is another disappointment, great in USA's Political Animals seems weird here, as a horny assistant, flirting with Clarkson as though his life depended upon it. On the plus side, he can actually sing.
The set is pretty and I guess the mechanics are good but it is supposed to be a comedy and I never laughed and only smiled once throughout the whole show. And it has a talented cast but you'd never know it from this show. I expected better. Grade: C+
Side Notes:
-Not much else I can say, except the jingle does sound pretty once Kelly Clarkson finally sings it.