I am – Hercules!!

I always thought it would be fun to cast Luis Guzman as a vampire in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” or “Angel,” because he’d look pretty much the same in human- and vamp-face.

Behold everyone’s favorite Puerto Rican thespian not named Jennifer as he squanders the goodwill garnered in “The Adventures of Pluto Nash,” “Anger Management” and “Dumb and Dumberer” -- in the service of a tawdry Fox sitcom!

TV Guide says:

As tasteless as week-old crullers, Luis is a melting pot of cring-inducing ethnic ciches. Guzman, a fine character actor, is not a natural comedian. He launches every lame joke as if it were a weapon. This isn’t funny, it’s frightening.

The Hollywood Reporter says:

Nothing in the premiere … indicates that {Guzman’s] ready yet to shoulder star billing. To be fair, Guzman might be fine if given the opportunity to play a more textured character instead of the perpetually angry proprietor of a Spanish Harlem doughnut shop.

Variety says:

Advocacy groups pushing for more Latinos on TV may hang their heads after watching "Luis." Fox's laffer indeed puts a Puerto Riqueno front and center, but the show pastes together every possible cliche at the expense of sophistication and, more seriously, the advancement of minorities on series television. Weak punchlines come fast and furious, and so do plenty of off-color jokes that take this half-hour in the wrong direction.

Entertainment Weekly gives it a C- and says:

You loved him in ''Traffic.'' You feared him in ''Oz.'' Now you'll feel mildly annoyed by him in his own sitcom. … Like ''Whoopi,'' ''Luis'' traffics in the season's most odious cliche: a white character who acts ''black'' (blame it on ''Bringing Down the House'').

USA Today gives it one star (out of four) and says:

… horrific … Loud, loathsome 'Luis' misfires … Guzman seems to think the key to sitcom stardom is to shoot out every line and hammer every gesture. Your reaction isn't to laugh, it's to duck.

8:30 p.m. Friday. Fox.