Gabriel Iglesias gets caught with a Blackberry. Yawn. We knew he was kicked off eventually, but we weren’t sure of the manufacturer, or the model number. You get the idea.
We commented on this long ago, May 19, to be exact. (Actually, we reported generally on April 30 that Iglesias was gone fron the show.) We wrote in May that Iglesias was bounced for:
Using a communication device of some sort to inform the outside world of the LCS goings on, which is strictly forbidden in the rules and regs of L.C.S.!!
Leaks? The chatter on the internet is that Iglesias got kicked off because of what we reported on this blogazine back in the spring. The theory being that the producers knew someone had to have leaked the info to the press (or the internet!) and that someone (Iglesias) had to pay! We’d love to take credit, but we really can’t. But if the MSM and the WWW would like to believe that it was us, well, have at it!
Gabriel Iglesias may have been roasted, but Kristin Key got burned. That editing job they did on her roast performance was cold!
The fake laugh that Iglesias effected was not convincing, since he used it to degrade one of the acts in the heckler competition a coupla weeks ago. So that makes it horrifying.
For winning the roast competition, Chris Porter will be “flown to Las Vegas, where he will perform with the comedy superstar Louie Anderson.” (We wonder if he was lucky enough to get on the bill with Louie prior to his diverticulitis surgery… or if he had to share the bill with the surly David Brenner, who has been subbing for Anderson of late.
Kristin Key didn’t know what a Blackberry was? Is she kidding? Sure she continues to beat that “I’ve only been doing comedy for the last 10 months or so” drum, but she’s never heard of a Blackberry?! Would she have us believe she’s only been on the planet for the last 10 months?
Not a good night for Kristin Key. Not a good night for Rebecca Corry. Gone, both of them! Ty Barnett was the third comic that had to battle it out in front of a live audience tonight. He wins by default. (He probably could have won merely by staring at the audience for three minutes.)
Count Clark was particularly pale tonight. And he steadfastly refused to do any of the sparkling material that his supporters have been promising! What is up with that?
Remaining:
Chris Porter
Ty Barnett
Roz
Michele Balan
Josh Blue
Find out how you can get every comic who has ever done comedy back onto the show by calling up and voting for them and then being part of their live studio audience and voting for your favorite comic who has ever been anywhere near Ross Mark and Bob Reade…
…or, we’re confused about the rules.
We can’t quite figure out what happens next.
Plus, we got a Myspace bulletin from Doug Benson saying that he and all the other were still eligible for inclusion in the competition. So, we’re totally unsure how the whole thing will shake out. Be assured of this: Everyone associated with the show this season will be burned a thousand times worse than Alonzo Bodden ever was in Season III.
From the NBC Last Comic Standing website:
Give an eliminated comic the chance to perform on the live finale!
Vote now on the Producers’ Favorite Online Comics, in a “Wild Card” Bonus Round!
The moment is almost here… On July 18, viewer voting begins. And YOU decide who will become the final three house comics!
We haven’t been this confused since the final season of Star Search (the old Ed McMahon Star Search, not the one where Naomi Judd insulted Ben Bailey). We’re thinking of starting a write-in campaign which will include any comic who was ever featured on Comedy Central’s Standup Standup (but only the season hosted by Wali Collins or Sue Kolinski. You gotta keep the list down to a few hundred or so)!
Ladies and gentlemen, your Last Comic Standing producers:
Too cool for school, or what?
From the NBC.com Last Comic Standing blog posting from Producer Dan (the sullen one on the left, not the sullen one on the right):
Let’s be clear about something. The online competition doesn’t allow discarded comics to get back into the competition to be Last Comic Standing. However, the two finalists will appear in the finale episode, and if they are so much better than the comics that made it to the house I guess we will all have egg on our faces.
WARNING! WARNING! To all comics who might be included in the final episode to “appear”: You are being setup! DO NOT agree to appear on the final episode! The two most powerful producers on the show have publicly confessed that they have a stake in making you look less funny than the other comics on the show! Their reputations are at stake and they have said so on the NBC.com website. Back away slowly from this trainwreck and be grateful that you were warned in advance!