Pulling off a broad satire requires great finesse: If, as in the mockumentary “Authors Anonymous,” all of the subjects are idiots, why should we care?
Kaley Cuoco, Chris Klein, Teri Polo, Dylan Walsh, Jonathan Bennett and the late Dennis Farina attempt to pull off a “Best in Show” of writers’ groups, with each of them portraying a talentless, self-deluding wannabe.
As the group meets to chew over one another’s work, they’re all revealed to be dopes, and they’re played strictly as stock types (the blond ditz, the armchair general).
Only rarely is there an amusingly absurd moment, such as when one of them gets a rejection letter written on a tiny sticky note.