"Adversarial Bonnie" says USATOday

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on June 28th, 2004

Last week, we told you about USAToday’s Reality Check, which appears in the McPaper weekly (and, for the most part, weakly!) (It’s online, too, if you click here.) Well, this week’s check is mercifully brief, but mercilessly catty (we note that the top of most recent R.C. is graced with a pic of the dreamy Gary Gulman! And we also note that the copy says that Bonnie “makes enemies of just about everyone in the house before she even unpacks.” Which perhaps overstates things just a tad. Clip the claws, Reality Check gals!

Instead of challenging a housemate she knew she could beat (and telling them so to their faces), Bonnie went with someone she wasn’t sure about: Jon Heffron.

Hmmm… they’re getting into strategy now, are they? Stay tuned for our comments on tomorrow’s L.C.S.! We plan to have our analysis up within minutes of the conclusion!

US Magazine mentions three L.C.S.ers in their This Minute section, providing a pic and a coupla quotes from their “favorites” Madigan, London and Gulman.

And, in the TV Week in Sunday’s Indianapolis Star, the back cover was occupied by a profile of L.C.S. ’03 finalist Dave Mordal. The piece (complete with a strange color photo), which was syndicated through all the Knight Ridder papers, is lengthy and contains many details on the Elk River, Minnesota native we weren’t aware of.

Mordal has never been part of standup comedy’s social scene. To this day, his favorite way to spend time is heading to Wal-Mart with his son, now 15, to buy a CD or fish for the aquarium. He says he needs only enough money to keep him and Nick boating during the summers.

Exactly what is “standup comedy’s social scene,” anyway? Lunching with Jerry Seinfeld then planting tulip bulbs with Margaret Cho before a few sets of tennis with John Pinette? Deadlines do strange things to newspaper writers.

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