Modified On June 22, 2010
Doug Hecox, D.C.-based comedian and former SHECKYmagazine columnist, camped out in New York to audition for Last Comic Standing. He wrote about his experience. You can read it here.
But first, an excerpt:
By 12:30 p.m., the line had begun to inch forward and, by 1:30, I was inside the club en route to my audition. Though each comedian was to do two minutes of material in front of the judges and the cameras, producers were screening out those who had no business being there. They wanted each performer to do 60 seconds’ worth of material, from which they would pass judgment about whether you deserved to move on to perform two minutes for the judges.
I was ushered into what appeared to be a storeroom, which had three office desks. It was a tight fit. At each desk was a producer, and I was invited to begin. After my little bit about Halloween costumes, almost exactly 60 seconds in length, the producers were laughing. One said “Ok, I think you’re funny. Congratulations” and gave me a little green slip of paper – they called it a “green card”– which I was asked to take to one of the other producers upstairs so I could wait before performing for the celebrity judges and the cameras. Most of my line-standing counterparts hadn’t earned a green card and were already gone.
Read the whole thing!