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Last Comic Standing fallout CORRECTION

Gina Yashere has found an effective way to make things right. After her elimination from Last Comic Standing, she has posted on the experience on her MySpace blog. She takes part of the blame for her ouster– she admits to poor reality TV strategy when it came to the elimination challenge. But she also laments the ham-handed editing of her set by the show’s producers.

Well I can assure you, there were many great jokes in my set, which somehow didn’t make it to the TV show…

I did a great show on the night, and got several applause breaks, and even after getting booted, I look back and don’t for one second, regret my choice of material, coz I know I smashed it!

It’s just that Ralph smashed it too.

Just to prove my point, below is a clip of me performing the EXACT same joke, at a comedy club in California.

And the YouTube clip follows! Failing on network television need not be the totally humiliating experience it once was! Cybervindication has never been easier!

Read the rest of her blog posting here.

And speaking of setting the record straight, two video clips related to the Doug Benson/Dante Heckler Challenge throw down are linked from a posting on ASpecialThing.

EDITORS NOTE: In an earlier version of this post, we erroneously reported that Benson himself posted the links on AST. The posting that links to the YouTube clips from LCS was authored by JKwac, a regular contributor to the AST message board. We should have known it wasn’t posted by Benson, as all LCS contestants are contractually prohibited from commenting on the show while they’re still contestants. The clips in question were uploaded to YouTube by someone who runs CheeseSays.com, a blog about Reality Television. We apologize for any confusion.

The clips do two things: They fill in all the folks on the east coast who missed his thrashing of Dante during the Heckler Challenge (due to the interruption of Keith Olbermann) and they address the scurrilous accusation that his treatment of Dante was less than honorable. See clip one, Benson handling Dante. And, if you need context, watch Dante being heckled by Benson.