Last Comic Standing: Tempe auditions UPDATE 2/29

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on February 28th, 2008

We’re piecing together what went on in Tempe at the recent (Tuesday) LCS auditions there at the Improv. We haven’t gotten a large data dump on Tempe like we did on all the other audition cities. (And, although we’ve run into Bill Bellamy on two recent occasions, we weren’t there oursevles!)

So far, we’ve gleaned the following info:

From an (unnamed) comedian’s blog, we learned that, “A large Black pretty women, A Veteran to the craft, A good looking tattooed impressionist, A tall high energy Jewish guy, and a Good Looking guy that made it past the rounds in another season of LCS were all picked.” (He’s remaining unnamed because, after all, he didn’t actually name anyone who got through! Hereinafter, he shall be referred to as “the diminutive, high-energy, Midwest comic.”)

This much we know:

Adam Hunter
Alycia Cooper

Got through. Our educated guess is that Cooper is the “large Black pretty women (sic)” and Hunter is “a Good Looking guy.” (Hunter doesn’t make the “Jew-y” needle jump.)

Now, all we have to do is nail down the “good looking tattoed impressionist,” the “tall high energy Jewish guy,” and the comic who is described only as “A Veteran to the craft.” (We’ve noticed that the diminutive, high-energy Midwest comic is extremely “lookist!” And he has an allergy to punctuation!)

UPDATE: It has been brought to our attention that Adam Hunter in indeed Jewish. So… that means that he has been switched to “tall, high energy Jewish guy.” And now, we must figure out who “a Good Looking guy” is.

It is rumored that “a Good Looking guy” might be Josh Wolf, who, you’ll recall was one of the two comics presented in a previous season of LCS as winners of the online component of the competition. He was beaten by Theo Von.

The “good looking tattoed impressionist,” it has been speculated, is Marcus. Just one name. Marcus.

We apologize to Mr. Hunter for denying his Jewish heritage. (Actually, we didn’t think he looked as un-Jewish as he looked un-tall.)

UPDATE 02/29: We found out that tall high energy Jewish guy is Bryan Kellen and Phil Palisoul is a Veteran of the craft. Now… is it possible that the Josh Wolf rumor is simply that?

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