God's Favorite Idiot, review: Melissa McCarthy manages to ruin her husband's sitcom

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God’s Favorite Idiot is a comedy about an unassuming IT support worker named Clark Thompson who is struck by a thunderbolt one night and learns that he has been chosen by God to save the world from Satan. “Oh, no.

Really?” says a dismayed Clark, when a visiting archangel lays out the details. The comedy derives from the fact that Clark (Ben Falcone) is an unlikely man for the job, chosen – as explained by God in a later episode – because he is “sweet and simple like pecan pie”.

He lists one of his main hobbies as “having nice conversations”. Clark doesn’t seem to be an idiot, just a shy chap whose life consists of being respectful to his colleagues and looking after his cats.

But a character like Clark needs a counterweight, and that comes in the form of Melissa McCarthy’s Amily Luck (there is a reason why she’s called Amily, and not Emily, but I won’t bore you with it).