1.   In the first two episodes, which arrive Wednesday on Fox, Mac plays himself, a successful stand-up comic married to an ambitious career woman.

2.   Several television and film visionaries are taking their talent for creating characters and stories and penning highly successful comics.

3.   The successful comics are often made into animated cartoons.

4.   Then he was introduced to yet another successful stand-up comic, Tim Allen, with thoughts of turning his act into a television series.