THIS alleged comedy is about as funny as a punctured eardrum. After ex-Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan appeared early on, I assumed Entourage could only get better.

I was wrong. Director, co-writer and TV series creator Doug Ellin’s dire aspirant Hollywood satire reunites his small-screen gang and then leaves them gagging for punchlines but finding precious few.

A seriously undernourished plot finds film star Adam Grenier making his cinema directorial debut but, along with TV mates Kevin Connolly, Jerry Ferrara and Kevin Dillon, he desperately fails to raise laughs. Jeremy Piven, once their agent and now a studio head fighting for finance to finish Grenier’s film, completes the original TV crew. The satire is flat and unfunny and time passes painfully slowly. If this is supposed to be laugh a minute, sadly I missed that particular one.