Last Comic Standing Recap

July 3rd, 2008

Just finished watching the 2nd semi-final show of Last Comic Standing, and I am less annoyed than I could be, but still just a smidge annoyed. Luckily those doltish Stone & Stone retards did NOT make the cut, someone needs to slap them. I can’t believe the judges found them anything other than ridiculous and annoying. Overall the performances tonight were strong, except for that horrific guy who did the WWI sketch, that was embarrassing for all involved. I thought the guy who sang the porn song was rather “meh” and the fact that he made it through spoke to the fact that both judges were male and males find any mention of porn hilarious by default, it seems.

Last week no women made the cut, and I was disappointed by that. I loved St. Louis’s own Andi Smith in the tryouts and I was aghast at her choice of material for the semi-finals. Even though I found it funny, I also knew immediately that it doomed her chances of getting chosen to go on. That pompous Sopranos asshole guy who was a judge was ridiculously sensitive, and the material (West Virginians dead in a mine collapse jokes, jokes about a guy with a wooden leg) was just too mean and non-PC to get past a mainstream crowd. Todd and I almost busted our guts at it, but we’re really, really mean people – so that’s her demographic apparently. Maybe nasty, mean and jaded sarcasm is a special St. Louis trait – wouldn’t that be nice? But anyway, I wasn’t surprised when she didn’t go on, though I would have liked her to. (Sweet! She’s going to be in StL in September, 3rd-7th, I am so going to go! Click here for some blowjob humor from her.)

This week I was prepared for more of the same, and though I was less irritated by Esther Ku this time (her act was substantially more polished than at tryouts) I was prepared to be annoyed if the only female that they sent on happened to be a young, cutesy, non-threatening, baby-talking Asian female in a really short skirt, whom Richard Belzer creepily flirted with after her act. Ick. But they chose 7 people tonight and included another woman in the mix, unfortunately I was cleaning the kitchen during her performance and didn’t pay that close of attention to her.

So that was it for semi-finals. I still think that Paul Foot (another finalist) looks like he must smell funny – and I wish someone could confirm or deny that for me.

Mood : I have to pee, actually Music : Love and Rockets - So Alive