In FX's 'The Comedians,' Billy Crystal and Josh Gad join forces to bomb

FX's "The Comedians," a sadly ill-conceived half-hour series premiering Thursday, tries to head critics off at the pass, framing itself as a bad TV show about the making of a bad TV show that stars two celebrities who are playing fictionalized versions of themselves at a professionally desperate junction. (Like that's never been done?) Deliberately belching smoke is one way to disorient the drivers behind you, but eventually we will catch up to the truth: Whatever was supposed to be funny here v...