Last Comic Standing premieres May 22

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on April 30th, 2008

That’s a Thursday. Rather inconvenient for working comics, no? But, it’s not for us, now is it? No it’s for all those standup comedy fans. Speaking of which: If you’re a comedy fan and you want to get tickets to tapings, click on this image:

It’s from NBC’s Last Comic Standing page and it’ll take you to the site of one of those companies that rustle audiences for television shows. We figure if enough of our readers show up, they won’t have anyone in the audience that will HECKLE!

They also have a “Where are they now” feature which allows us to catch up with Dat Phan, Matt Kirshen and other past contestants. And “ANT is back with his signature wit starting this May,” teases one of the links. Signature wit? Did they say “signature wit?”

The premiere episode is a 90-minute extravaganza at 9:30 EDT. Then it will revert to its regular 8:30 PM time slot in subsequent weeks. Still inconvenient. But we will figure out a way to comment/analyze the proceedings. We’ll be in Kansas City the first week. Nowhere (so far) on week two.