Just Shoot It: Spade's New Show Dead

August 17 -- Say "buh-bye" to David Spade's brand-new animated comedy, Sammy.

The comic's semi-autobiographical show has been yanked by NBC after just two weeks, says Variety. Poor ratings are the culprit.

The dysfunctional Sammy was a nod to Spade's real-life abandonment by his estranged father. Former NewsRadio castmates Andy Dick and Maura Tierney lent their voices to characters on Sammy, but it wasn't enough for the show to spark a laugh with audiences.

Spade, who stars in the popular NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me, had been developing the cartoon to help NBC fill its rapidly expanding comic abyss. Unfortunately, the show's debut was rescheduled several times, and when it did air, it was a ratings Titanic.

Sammy was one of NBC's lowest-scoring shows among test audiences. It had a 2.6 rating in homes, and a nightmarish 1.6 rating among adults ages 18 to 49.

Each ratings point represents an estimated 994,000 homes, or 1 percent of the nation's households with TVs.