Last Comic Standing - 07/27/04
 

"Wild Card Show", Episode #210.

Viewers are able to cast votes for the remaining comics.

Original Airdate: July 27, 2004.

Nothing impressive so far. Jay London is the only comic the audience responded to so far, and even his material is pretty stale.

Please, make Ant stop.

Take a guess at what his jokes are about?

Althought i don't really like them I was very impressed with Corey and Ant.. both had some very funny new material

Jay London had some good stuff tonight, but those comments between the jokes I think detract from his act. It was kinda funny way back in the auditions, but it actually ticks me off now.

I wasn't overly impressed with any of them. I don't think any deserve to be in the finals. If pressed to vote for someone, I guess I'd pick Corey, although I think the laughs were just coming too slow.

Bonnie was awful, Glass was mediocre, London had good stuff but I can't stand that schtick in between jokes, Ant was actually fairly good, I'd say he was 2nd best, but I'm just sick of the gay jokes.

I just give Ant credit for not starting with "Recognize my accent? San Francisco," as he seemed to every other time (including last year's auditions). That's a step in the right direction.

I'm a fan of Jay London's and hope he makes it, but I'm afraid most people don't "get" his style as being funny.

I like Bonnie and Todd, but I thought they were very mediocre.

I didn't particularly care for anyone's act tonight. Just as long as Ant doesn't get in - I 'll be happy.

No one really stood out tonite in my eyes. Bonnie was awful and everyone else was ok at best. Nice to hear some new material out of some of them though.


A question for those of you that watched the first season: Am I the only one that completely despises this one? The first season was fun to watch, funny people interacting with each other having a pretty good time. I find myself watching the episodes this season just to see who goes on to the next episode, nothing more than that. I don't know if it's just edited really poorly or if all these comics are just that damn boring. Oh well, whatever, just my 2 cents...

I agree, no one made me think they really needed to be in the finals. But then, the ones already in the finals haven't set the world on fire, either.

Biggest surprise of the show, Bonnie's makeover! I think she looks better.

CFG!

I would pick bonnie cause she has breast.

that is all. everyone was pretty weak tonight.

Last season had some great comics (except the winner) and most of them got along and did interact well (remember hide and seek!).

Off topic:
A few weeks ago I was talking to my brother, and he told me that one of his friends knows Dave Mordahl from growing up with him in Minnesota. Well, this friend of my brother's wrote a screenplay specifically for Dave, with Rich Voss having a smaller part in it. Both Dave and Rich have agreed to be in the movie and it's going to be directed/produced by my brother and sister-in-law. So of course, I'm seeing what I can do to get a small part in the movie.

Now those guys were funny last year.

Throughout Ant's set, all I could think about was
http://www.michaelromanos.com/pictur...wee_herman.jpg

I don't know if this has been brought up already since I don't follow these threads (or the show) that much, but doesn't it seem like they're copying things from every reality show they can possibly think of? I mean..."The house", immunity challenges, having a villian, the smarmy host, having the villian return in a "shocking twist" after they've been eliminated, alliances, the horrible long drawn out elimination sequences, this season they brought on the American Idol-style auditions and final judging (they're even having a seperate reveal show on thursday), the list goes on. If it had an opening montage with all the comics and their first names falshing by (alternating between color and black and white), I would swear to you that this show was actually created by a cloned army of Mark Burnetts that had come together to form some sort of reality show Voltron.

At first I thought they were doing this ironically, but it's not nearly extreme enough to be a satire (like The Assistant on MTV), but it seems so half-assed that I have a hard time believing they did it in complete seriousness, thinking that copying the other shows would make this one a success. I don't know what their intentions were, but it makes the show hard to watch sometimes.

My memory is a bit swisscheesed right now, but wasn't most of that Ant's routine from last season?

das

THere's not one person in the house that's having a good time. In the first season Dave, Cory, and Rick were having a great time being the mafiso of the house. But this season, everyone is taking stuff way too seriously. Its like they're all sitting in detention trying not to get noticed untl it's time to leave.

Only Bonnie and Todd were having fun and they were gone in the first two eps.

D

Has the comedy scene declined so much that these are the best to offer? No one stood out last night and there was a surprising lack of energy, especially from Corey & Bonnie. Though I despise him, Ant seemed the most prepared for the competition. As for the best of the night, I've got to go with Todd Glass. Cast your votes at www.voteNBC.com

Stupid Democrat convention....

NBC here (actually, all the networks here) in Chicago switched to the convention after Ant's performance because the Democrat nominee for Senator was giving a keynote speech.

So, I only got to see 30 minutes of LCS :(

Exactly. If the old bald guy who talked monotone and the young bald guy who had some sort of conflict of interest, were in the house, it would be much more entertaining.

Bring on Robert Schimmel!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh boy. There's an 93% chance you're here to make sure Ant doesn't get the Wild Card spot. Everyone do what you can to help das out!

I know. :( Now I've got to decide betweeen voting for Todd, who was my favorite going into the show, or voting for Bonnie, who was my favorite of the four I saw.

Stupid convention!

It was disappointing to see Todd finish so poorly again. His routine was pretty good, but then he closed with a weak joke. He really needs to work on that.

das

Bonnie told jokes?

I should've checked the thread before watching my recording of this. I can't believe nobody was good enough to just take the spot. Only Ant and Todd seemed to have any energy on stage. If I had to guess I think Corey will win it, but it hurt him to go first with 4 going after him. The main reason I didn't like Corey's act was because I already heard it 20 times. I think if it was the first time it would probably be decent. Todd Glass killed any chance he had with that stupid Cookie Monster bit.

Bonnie's got problems. Seems like the only material she has is why people think she's a bitch. Maybe she should work on that and then find somehting funny to talk about. You guys always complain about Ant being a one trick pony, but this show proved he wasn't alone. At least he had one or two clever jokes in his set. None of the wildcards have a chance in hell against Boden or Heffron. I think there's a big gap between those two and the rest of them. I'd probably put Tammy Pascatelli 3rd until I actually get to hear Kathleen's stuff.

That's my recollection as well. In fact, wasn't the joke about boxing being invented by gays the one he told during auditions last season, and one of the judges accused him of ripping it off? (It certainly isn't original to him.)

Yeah, now I remember. Didn't Joe Rogan accuse him of stealing the joke?

The worst thing about Ant, and the reason I'll probably never find him funny, is that his setups are absurd. Stand-up comedy like his needs to come from realistic situations. Whether it really happened or not, "I was at the airport the other day, and I ran into this lady who ..." is realistic. "I was a fighter pilot during the Gulf War, and when shot down in the desert, I happened upon the Princess of Morocco ..." is not. If the setup is absurd, you know you're just being manipulated into some forced punchline, and his act is way too much of that.

das

He said he stole the joke about Gay people creating boxing! It was longer last season than this season and Joe Rogan said it was a stolen joke...Buddy Hackett disagreed with Joe, but either way Ant didn't make it. I have to agree with Joe, when I heard it last season I thought I had heard it before too, then all of a sudden Joe says its an old joke.

Bruce

Bump for a reminder that this is on again tonight...How will they compare with American Idol on filling an hour with 58 minutes of crap and 2 minutes of actual show???

Tune in and find out!

I think I'll wait and hear it from y'all.

Rogan said that it was in Boiler Room. I have heard a few comedians use it, so who knows who originated it.

Looks like America's pick was...



(We had just got back from shopping and caught the last 10 minutes.)

And the Wild Card goes to:

Interesting. During the credits of tonight's show, there was a paragraph that said (paraphrasing):
If Chicago is the "one market" they're talking about, it seems to me like the voting would be affected if viewers in one of the largest markets in the country didn't see the final performer on Tuesday's show.

I want that hour of my life back :(. God, talk about wasting time to fill an hour. I cannot take one more minute of Jay Mohr. I think this show is just a way for that egomaniac to stroke himself in front of millions.

So we add one more back into the mix to get to 6 and then they eliminate half in one episode on Tuesday?!?! WTF? I have a vested interest in this show now since I've watched it from the beginning, but I'm not real happy with the way they're doing things.

Go Heffron!

Thank goodness for Tivo. I scanned that hour down to about five minutes. An hour tp announce the winner of the "wild card"? Oh, I know, let's have all the contestants that performed Tuesday perform again! Yeah, that makes perfect sense! What complete and utter bullshit. I like the idea of this show, but stuff like this makes it one of the lamest reality programs, which is saying a lot.

Shows just how bad that group was. But I don't think we have to worry about the wildcard winning the whole thing. Not a chance. It can't happen! It must not happen! Dear God, don't let the wildcard win!

[very very dry]ha ha ha[/VVD]

Holy crap, no wonder I never watched this show, the people on this show are NOT funny.