ex-con

There he met Michael Brizendine, a 230-pound ex-con with blue eyes and blond hair nicknamed “Cornfed.”

A onetime world champion but now a disgraced ex-con after a drunk-driving incident that killed a boy, Mike does have a lucky break ahead: an undercard match that night at Madison Square Garden that could revive his fortunes.

A handful of motivated buyers, played by Luke Wilson, Linda Cardellini, Teyonah Parris, O-T Fagbenle, Abbi Jacobson and Poppy Liu, circle the property while Paul and Lydia try to hide their secret reasons for the sale — and their relationship with a dangerous ex-con played by Denis Leary.

I am not someone with Bonnie and Clyde syndrome, and I have never initiated anything with a known ex-con.

And Goldberg’s titular story as well as brother Lee’s “If I Were a Rich Man” — the latter involving a Jewish ex-con, now a dementia patient in a retirement home in Merced — bring on the funny while being wildly observant.