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Last Comic Standing– First Person(s) Account*
* First person account authored by Brian McKim & Traci Skene, but recounting the experience of Brian McKim. One of […]
Last Comic Standing clip
Hulu has a nifty feature that enables the user to embed the code for any of their videos and select […]
Last Comic Standing Semifinal analysis
Well, we can’t say anything until the episode runs on the West Coast. And that won’t be over until 2 […]
Last Comic Standing, S07E05– Semifinals II
We interrupt this holiday weekend to bring you all back down to reality… reality television, that is. The Male Half […]
Last Comic Standing, SE07E04
Season 7, Episode 4 has aired. (And it was two hours long. With, sadly, no re-run of last Monday’s episode. […]
Blogger invites readers to weigh in on joke thievery
The blogger is Scott Wampler. Who’s he? He’s a blogger for a website called examiner.com. One of his recent pieces, […]
Odds and ends: Last Comic Standing
Some random musings on our audition/showcase experience and some other thoughts and memories that were dislodged when we watched last […]
An account from the NYC LCS line
Doug Hecox, D.C.-based comedian and former SHECKYmagazine columnist, camped out in New York to audition for Last Comic Standing. He […]
Last Comic Standing: First person(s) account
Episode 4, Season 7 of NBC’s Last Comic Standing aired tonight. We were featured prominently. We are trying to assess […]
Last Comic Standing and cognitive dissonance
We watched Last Comic Standing. It has been 91 days since we were involved in the audition and showcase that […]
TIVO alert: Last Comic Standing
The Male Half and the Female Half will be featured in tonight’s episode (Episode 4) of Last Comic Standing. (NBC, […]
Jus Jay, Comedian
One of our readers described him as “one of Kansas City’s greats.” He was known more widely as the “King […]
Chips Cooney’s got talent
Another comic appeared on NBC’s America’s Got Talent Tuesday night. This time, it was Chips Cooney, from Edgewater, NJ. SPOILER […]
The few, the proud, the nameless
You can see the NBC.com “New York Auditions” slideshow here. It’s a collection of pics of some of the folks […]
Last Comic Standing Update… sorta (Episode 2, Season 7)
There’s a status update on a Facebook profile (the profile of someone who has a lot of juice in this […]
Perception is reality
Comedian Jeremy Paul commented on one of our postings about Last Comic Standing. It was a lengthy comment. And, to […]
LCS provides interview tips
That’s right. The millions of unemployed youngsters out there can glean interview tips from watching Last Comic Standing. It’s not […]
“I think he is juich…” CORRECTED (w/video)
As of 8:41 EDT, that was the most recent comment under the Youtube video of Philly comedian Doogie Horner‘s appearance […]
Raymond the Amish Comic on AGT
We forgot to mention that, in the middle of a commercial for America’s Got Talent that ran last night during […]
Last Comic Standing ratings
The overnight ratings are in and Mediaweek’s Marc Berman (who is that publication’s “Programming Insider”) has dubbed Last Comic Standing […]
Season 7 of Last Comic Standing (1)
Episode 1! Well… everyone thinks that all the comics who audition for Last Comic Standing have stood out in the […]
How comedians are viewed
Viewed by the mainstream media, that is. If you live in the Tampa-St. Pete area and you’re trying to plan […]
Tingle addresses Harvard
Jimmy Tingle delivers commencement speech at Harvard. A comment below the video, from “bizazzmedia”: I was at the commencement, as […]
No he did NOT say that (L.C.S.)
Reality TV World blog has a piece on the upcoming season of Last Comic Standing complete with perplexing quotes from […]
Our readers save us the trouble
Longtime FOS Shaun Eli took exception to the following passage in a review of Conan O’Brien’s stage show by NYT […]
What’s with all the L.C.S. hate?
We’ve been noticing the steady build-up of resentment toward Last Comic Standing as the June 7 premiere date draws near. […]
MyComedyExchange seeks to collect royalties
A while back, we told you about Soundexchange, which was created to chase down royalties for the satellite and internet […]
Worst comedy club names evah
The Female Half stumbled upon the Friends of Julius blog. FOJ is a Seattle-based comedy/film/video group. The particular link above […]
J. Chris Newberg part of TV lore
Did you watch Idol tonight? No? Well, then, you missed a hunk of television lore, right up there with the […]
Oswalt ripped off again
For the second time in the past month or so, Patton Oswalt finds himself the victim of a thief. Back […]
We’re back! On WordPress! I know!
We can’t believe it either. And we owe it all to Kent Politsch, the man behind SIC Web Design (“Form […]
iSlam app removed by Apple
Comedian Emery Emery built an app for iPhone users called “iSlam,” which was a way for users to download particularly […]
We’ve had enough!
We’re leaving Blogger. They have screwed us over. We can’t access any of our files since they forced us to […]
NYUCF accepting submissions
The New York Underground Comedy Festival is accepting submissions. This year, it’ll be August 15-22, at various venues throughout the […]
World Series of Comedy returns
A few years back (so far back that we can’t find it in our archives), we received an email from […]
For Those Who Succeed
That’s the name of the most recent promo for NBC’s Last Comic Standing and we gotta say, it’s encouraging. And, […]
Unsung comedians get… sung in USA Today
Whitney Matheson’s Pop Candy column is an institution on USA Today’s website. (We’ve been mentioned there twice over the last […]
Cowardice at Comedy Central
Ian O’Doherty’s column in the Independent of Ireland reviews the final decision on the lawsuit involving comedian Sunda Croonquist and […]
"I Am Comic"
They’re screening the documentary “I Am Comic” tonight in NYC. (The website says it’s presented at the Best of Slamdance, […]
We're back!
But our photos aren’t! Still a coupla hiccups while we get this whole Blogger/FTP Migration mess under control. We thank […]
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