LCS: Bodden on judging

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on July 12th, 2007

FOS Guy MacPherson, writing for the Comedy Couch, interviewed Alonzo Bodden back in April, before this whole LCS thing aired.

We told NBC and we told the producers of the show that we’re going to know a lot of the comics who are trying out and we’re not going to pretend we don’t. That would be ridiculous. And the vast majority, and I mean like 98 percent of them, they understand. They know it’s our job and if they don’t get picked they’re not taking it personal. They’re not saying, “Gee, you’re my friend, you’re supposed to automatically put me on the show” or anything like that. As a matter of fact, I had one guy do that. I don’t know him really well, but he’s opened for me and I’ve hosted stuff he’s on. I was surprised. I didn’t expect him to be that type but he turned into it and he trashed the whole show and the whole process. But I found out later he was one of those people that had already planned to do that. He had already planned to trash the show. So there’s nothing you can do. Sometimes it’s weird. It’s definitely weird judging your peers and your friends. But they’ve been cool about it. And we’re as fair as possible.

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