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Last comedian Standing: Audience Vote Round #4
Here’s an amazing story: I arrived domestic that evening to find that my TiVo only recorded the final 25 minutes of LCS. With a review to write, I scrambled, calling everyone I knew within driving distance, trying to find the episode.
None of my friends had it (10 million viewers a week? None…
Last comedian Standing: Audiece Vote #3
It’s unlucky that after the NBC/Apple flare-up that week that humans won’t be able to easily download Last comedian Standing onto their IPods, considering that week’s show had it all:
A kinda, sorta standing O! A very obvious screw-up by one of the three remaining finalists! A set of produced…
Last comedian Standing: Audience Vote #3
It’s unlucky that after the NBC/Apple flare-up that week that public won’t be able to easily download Last comedian Standing onto their IPods, considering that week’s show had it all:
A kinda, sorta standing O! A very obvious screw-up by one of the three remaining finalists! A set of produced…
Last comedian Standing: Audience Vote Round #2
I can’t help myself, I just need to blurt out tonight’s winner: Doug Benson!
You nearly thought I posted a pre-jump spoiler, didn’t you? confess it, you were sharpening your commenter fingers just ready to eviscerate me for ruining the show!
Well, I did no such thing. The only person who…
Last comedian Standing: Audience Vote Round #1
There’s a famous story approximately Jerry Seinfeld. Early in his career, when he was starting to feel the first warmth of “industry heat”, he was offered a spot on the Tonight Show. that was the early eighties, remember, when a killer four minutes and a wave from Johnny pretty much guaranteed t…
Last Comic Standing: Challenge Round #3
In a lot of ways, writing my reviews of LCS each week has been very easy. By hating the senseless format, the useless judges, the silly challenges, the awful editing, and the dearth of stand-up comedy, I was able to construct a pretty flawless template for each of my reviews: start with a thou…
Last Comic Standing: Challenge Round #2
Remember that story about The Doors? The one where Ed Sullivan told them that they could only be on his show whether they changed the lyrics of Light My Fire? They agreed, but when they went on Jim Morrison not only said the original lyric, but emphasized it. The letter he was trying to send to …
Last Comic Standing and America’s Got Talent renewed
Great news for public who like standing comics and Americans who have talent: NBC has renewed both Last Comic Standing and America’s Got Talent. Both series will return next summer.
The hosts from both shows, Talent’s Jerry Springer and Standing’s Bill Bellamy, will return for the new seasons. Ta…
Last Comic Standing: Heckler Challenge
whether you see several spelling errors all through the course of my review, please excuse them. I didn’t suddenly forget how to type it’s just that… well, after I finished my review of the new NASCAR DVD (24×24 Wide Open with Jeff Gordon), I got pretty excited about how good it was. I mean, I’m n…
Last Comic Standing: Semi-final round two
I’d like to open tonight’s review by letting you all know that my wife and I had our first child that past Sunday. I’m telling you that up front so that you’ll be forgiving of me whether my review isn’t up to the cracker-jack standards that you’re used to. I’m operating on about one and a half h…
Last Comic Standing: Semi-Finals Round One
When the fine editors here at TV Squad asked me to review Last Comic Standing I of course said yes, despite the fact I was worried criticizing my fellow comics would anger the all-important comedy gods. My easy capitulation proves what you all already know: I’m a people-pleasing simp who would d…
Last Comic Standing: Tempe
Tonight’s episode took place at the Tempe Improv and despite the fact that it didn’t look precisely like the old LA room, any fan of comedy had to get a little excited when they saw that brick wall and the big Improv letters attached to it. I felt like I was sucked right back into 1988 and I was…
What you may not know about Last Comic Standing
The most frustrating thing about watching Last Comic Standing has got to be the misrepresentation of stand up comedy as a mold of entertainment and a way to manufacture a living. However a close second is the way the producers edit the show to leave out undoubtful things.
In a recent episode …
Last Comic Standing: London and Minneapolis
Something occurred to me tonight as I was watching LCS: I absolutely hate that show. I don’t mean that I kind of dislike it and wish that I didn’t have to review it, I mean that I wish that God himself would ride down from the heavens on a golden chariot and demand that His children wipe the s…
Now it’s Rogan Vs. Ant
“Rogan Vs. Ant” sounds like a Japanese monster movie.
In that instance, though, I’m not talking about mutated monsters battling by Tokoyo, I’m talking about comedian Joe Rogan’s recent accusation that comedian Ant, the openly homosexual judge on Last Comic Standing, steals jokes.
If that sounds …
Last Comic Standing: Los Angeles & Sydney auditions
My reviews of Last Comic Standing are going to be a bit different from Jay’s so be forewarned. First of all, the entire premise of LCS is flawed both as a television production and as a talent contest. The main problem is that the show (like all reality shows) is so heavily edited that you only see…
Last Comic Standing: New York, Canada, and San Antonio (season premiere)
First, let me apologize that that is being posted so late. There was a little mix-up behind the scenes here at the TV Squad Office Plaza and Community Fun Center that left both Paul Goebel and myself thinking that the other would be reviewing that episode. Our lead blogger asked “What happened to th…
Last Comic Standing goes abroad for fifth season
Nevertheless, I’m always surprised how many comedians I’ve grown fond of have actually arised on the show. In other words, whether you end up on the show and I like you, you’re probably not going to win.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Auditions kick off that m…
Last Comic Standing: Season Finale
Alonzo Bodden and John Heffron both showed why Season Two is considered to be the best LCS season. Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Other Reality Shows, NBC, OpEd, Last Comic Standing(S04E11) Let’s get the details of the first 88 minutes of the finale out of the way right now: Dat Phan stunk. Here…
