Modified On September 4, 2007
From the Mohegan Sun website, is the following description of the NBC’s Last Comic Standing Live Tour, at the Sun September 21-23:
NBC’s fifth season of Last Comic Standing went to the UK, Australia, and Canada this year, searching the globe for fresh comic talents, coming down to the wire with the five following comics. Lovell Crawford earned his comedy stripes appearing with Jamie Foxx Presents:Laffapalooza, and has played clubs and colleges all over the country. Canada’s Gerry Dee is an ex-teacher who has numerous TV credits, including a role as Boston Bruin hockey great Wayne Cashman in the Canadian mini-seires Canada Russia 72. Philadelphia’s Ralph Harris was the opening act for Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation tour, and was more recently seen in the feature film releases Dreamgirls and Evan Almighty. Jon Reep is one of the busiest young comics working today, and may be best known for his role as the redneck who wonders “That thing gotta hemi?” in the Dodge truck commercials. Amy Schumer has been a regular on the Manhattan comedy-club circuit. Her win on Last Comic Standing, along with frequent appearances on MTV shows such as Fight For Your Rights continue to build her audience.
Emphasis ours.
What is this all about?
Of course, they spelled Lavell Crawford’s name wrong. And they misspelled the word “series,” but the rest of it is written like a press release that might have come from NBC.
Somebody at Mohegan Sun or at NBC has written a press release that talks about “her win.” If NBC screwed up and let the information out prematurely with an embargo, and then someone at Mohegan Sun wrote the above description with the information provided by the network, that would explain the typos. Or it could be merely a transcription error at the Sun, with little or no oversight/copy editing.
Either way, what isn’t a typo is the phrase “her win.”
It is interesting that they put her name last. Showbiz convention that means “headliner,” or most important.
They are in alphabetical order, though. That still wouldn’t explain the win thing. Are they referring to her win to get into the final round? The final ten, perhaps? That wouldn’t explain anything, since they all won a spot on LCS of some kind or another.