Man Seeking Woman is an American television sitcom that premiered on FXX on January 14, 2015. Man Seeking Woman is about a naïve and soft-spoken man in his 20s named Josh Greenberg (Jay Baruchel), who finds himself in several surreal and awkward circumstances while trying to find love.The series is based on a book of short stories, The Last Girlfriend on Earth, by Simon Rich, who is also the series creator, executive producer, and showrunner.