Working-Class Palooka Delivers Crude Zingers in ‘Still Standing’

Bill Miller (Mark Addy) opens his bathrobe to his wife, Judy (Jami Gertz) and proclaims: “I’d like you to say hello to a friend of mine.”

No accident that he sells toilets for a living, for the new CBS comedy “Still Standing” overflows with gross toilet humor. If that’s your aroma, this is your series.

It’s a blue-collar comedy with occasional laughs. It’s also a “King of Queens” wannabe whose sheer banality stands in sharp contrast to the Emmy winner it follows, “Everybody Loves Raymond.”

You suspect many fewer will love Bill and Judy, who are about as mismatched as couples get. She’s a looker, he’s a palooka with a crude mouth and a big belly fronting a slobby body that looks like an unmade bed. No wonder she fell for him.

British actor Addy (“The Full Monty”) needs to work on his Americanspeak. He can skillfully deliver a punch line, however, and this comedy squirts raunchy ones continually. As when Bill pops in on his precocious, computer-whiz son for a chat about the facts of life. “Do you want to be smart,” he asks, “or do you want to touch a booby?”

The working class, fall-season style.

“Still Standing” will be shown at 9:30 p.m. Mondays on CBS. The network has rated it TV-PGD (may be unsuitable for young children, with advisory for suggestive dialogue). Howard Rosenberg can be contacted at howard.rosenberg @latimes.com.