Last Comic Standing: Minneapolis

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on February 20th, 2008

We just got a recap of the Minneapolis auditions from an anonymous source:

Last Comic Standing has come and gone through the frozen tundra of Minneapolis. I only bring up the frozen tundra as the LCS team took every opportunity to point out how cold it is here. They had some guy carving an ice sculpture out on the street and every interview in the LCS photo booth was about “how do you deal with these crazy cold temperatures?!” The line wasn’t ridiculously long, although there were a few crazy souls that camped out overnight. Which seems eve more ridiculous considering how quickly the line moved in the morning, they were taking in about 5-6 at time to audition for a PA and were told they would be called if they made it to the afternoon “celebrity judge” round.

The “appointment people” were seen one at a time in front of two producers in the actual club. About 25 folks, including the costumed and wacky, were seen by the celebrity judges from The Office.

Roughly 18 moved on to the night show in front of a packed house at ACME. Bill Bellamy hosted and the show was great! I can think of several folks that received genuine applause breaks within their 3 minute sets. Some of the 18 in the showcase were: Tim Harmston, Doug Mellard, Mary Mack, Tracey Ashley, Bengt Washburn, Greg Warren, Darlene Westgor and Chuck Bartell. I am sure I’ve spelled some names wrong and I know I’ve left out several very talented folks, but congrats to everyone in the showcase. It really was a great show.

At any rate it was a pretty good day and some very funny folks moved on. Moving on from Mpls are Pete Lee, Dan Cummins and John Evans.

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