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LCS UPDATE: British comics make it to H-wood

According to the British website Chortle, British comedians Junior Simpson, Ava Vidal, Matt Kirshen and Spencer Brown are to take part in the hit American show Last Comic Standing.

As you all know by now, the producers of the NBC reality show have determined, after scouring the U.S. and Canada for three or four years, that there are not enough good, competent, telegenic comedians in North America to stock a fifth season of the LCS. Naturally, they’re forced to scour the rest of the English-speaking world for comedians. The numbers in the U.K. and Australia will be about equivalent to that of an HGTV informercial pitching mushroom scrubbers at 3 AM Pacific Daylight Time, so their motivation must be something else. Perhaps they seek the next Ricky Gervais.

(Thanks to reader Randy Masters for the heads up!)