Late bloomers get a 'Winner'

0 Comments | USA TODAY, March, 2007 | by Bill Keveney

Ignorance is turning into career bliss for Rob Corddry, the Daily Show alumnus who plays the title character in The Winner (Fox, Sunday, 8:30 and 9:30 p.m. ET/PT).

His Glen Abbott, now the richest man in Buffalo, starts off more as a loser. In the comedy, set 12 years in the past, Glen is an unemployed, 32-year-old virgin who lives with his parents and appears clueless about all things except the TV Guide crossword puzzle.

Naive Glen and Corddry's offensive news correspondent occupy opposite ends of the know-nothingness scale. "He's as innocently oblivious as my Daily Show quote-unquote character was malevolently stupid," he says.

In the series, Glen is stirred from his arrested adolescence when Alison (Erinn Hayes), the only girl he ever kissed,...