Modified On June 5, 2008
Can the stomach take two hours?
Someone who calls himself “Joe Reality,” who writes for RealityTVMagazine.com, says:
In a special two-hour episode of Last Comic Standing, the top ten worst and craziest auditions of this season will be counted down. In addition, Dave Foley, Richard Kind, Josh Gomez and French Stewart will be featured as celebrity talent scouts. Bill Bellamy serves as host of the series.
Josh Gomez and French Stewart will travel to San Francisco, where they will encounter a wild comedy trio of brothers. Gomez and Stewart will also have a run-in with an unfunny female comic, who fights back.
No source cited, we figure it’s from an NBC press release.
Stealing a page from American Idol‘s playbook, and lacking the hysterical fireworks of any appearance this year from Buck Star (the sarcasm light is on and flashing), the producers will take a few minutes (probably an hour) and “countdown” the ten worst and craziest auditions.
Exactly how does this square with the “nice angle” that is being touted by host Bellamy in countless wire stories over the past week? Get ready for rimshots, cricket sounds and worse, as NBC’s ratings bummer (we hear it ranked 58th overall last week) demeans all the costumed, deluded and desperate people they lured to the auditions.
Perhaps even a few competent and professional comedians will be edited so that they can be included among the worst and craziest.