I had a similar reaction the first time I tried to watch the first episode, but I'm really glad I tried again. The show is much more of an ensemble comedy, and though Jeff is the lens though which we see a lot of it, I wouldn't say that he's the focus of a lot of the episodes. The story does spend a lot of time smacking him around for being a jerk and the character actually grows a lot from it. The really fun from the series comes from how they poke fun of a lot of TV tropes.