One of Josh Blue’s prizes for winning Last Comic Standing 4 was his “own comedy special on Bravo,” as NBC’s web site says. However, as Josh told reality blurred exclusively before a recent stand-up appearance at a college, he won’t be performing a new routine for Bravo’s cameras. Instead, Bravo has purchased his DVD, and… continue reading
Last Comic Standing 4
Last Comic Standing 4 finale was the lowest-rated episode of the season
The continually declining ratings for Last Comic Standing 4 fell even more on Wednesday night, when NBC aired the show’s fluff-filled finale. Among viewers 18 to 49, the finale “was down 22 percent from its season-long 3.6 average, and it dipped 36 percent from the 2004 edition’s finale,” according to Media Life. The magazine motes… continue reading
Josh Blue wins Last Comic Standing 4; Theo Von wins online competition
Josh Blue, the comedian whose cerebral palsy was often a focus of his comedy, has won Last Comic Standing 4. The winner of the parallel online competition was revealed to be Theo Von, better known to Road Rules fans as Theo Vonkurnatowski. Anthony Clark said, “I’m sure we’re gonna be seein’ a lot more of… continue reading
Last Comic Standing 4 ends tonight
Last Comic Standing 4 concludes tonight with a 90-minute finale that will crown the winners of both the actual contest and the online competition. Either Josh Blue or Ty Barnett will win. The show starts at 8 p.m. ET. The actual finalists and the online contest finalists performed last night. The online competition finalists were… continue reading
Jay Mohr returns to Last Comic Standing
Former Last Comic Standing host Jay Mohr will return to the series to perform on the finale next Wednesday. His unhappiness about the third season apparently led producers to replace him with akwardly humorless host Anthony Clark. Zap2it reports that “As recently as a few weeks ago, in fact, he told Zap2it he had ‘no… continue reading
Last Comic Standing 4 has its final five after Gabriel is sent home for breaking the rules
The final five comics on Last Comic Standing 4 are Chris, Josh, Michele, Roz, and Ty. Ty beat Rebecca and Kristin in the final head-to-head competition and joined the other four in the final group. Next week, audience voting will begin as one comic is eliminated each week. Today, the final six online contestants will… continue reading
Last Comic Standing 4 selected 50 finalists, edited out some from audition episode
One of the comics who received a red envelope and a pass to the finals on Last Comic Standing 4 was edited out of the audition episode that aired last week. Mark Saldana auditioned in Tempe and was “selected by the judges Bob and Ross to move on to the night show,” and then “got… continue reading
Road Rules’ Theo changes his name, makes it to the second Last Comic Standing round
On the two-hour debut of Last Comic Standing 4 last night, the show burned through all of its audition rounds. The show updated us on the season two and three winners, but oddly neglected to mention season one winner Dat Phan. But the biggest news from the episode is that Road Rules star Theo may… continue reading
Last Comic Standing 4 debuts tonight
After a disastrous third season that led to the series losing its critical host, Last Comic Standing returns tonight four a fourth season at 8 p.m. ET. Anthony Clark hosts the show, which will also feature a parallel online competition. He promises that the contestants are “all new. America does not know about these people…. continue reading
Last Comic Standing 4 rejects will compete online in a separate contest
Last Comic Standing 4 is going to feature not one competition, but two separate competitions, one of which will take place almost entirely online. Comics who were rejected and did not make it into the house on the TV show will compete online for a separate title. Viewer votes will select six of those 30… continue reading
Kathy Griffin, Garry Marshall, Tim Meadows will guest judge Last Comic Standing 4
NBC has revealed the celebrity judges for Last Comic Standing 4, and at least one is no stranger to reality television. Kathy Griffin will judge the contestants along with Garry Marshall and Tim Meadows. They’ll apparently only “appear on two special ‘semi-finals’ episodes to help choose the top comedians who ultimately make it into the… continue reading
Anthony Clark replaces Jay Mohr as host of Last Comic Standing 4
Last Comic Standing host Jay Mohr wasn’t shy about commenting on the half-assed third season of the show and NBC’s decision to cancel it. And now that NBC renewed the show, Mohr has been replaced, by comic Anthony Clark. An NBC press release about Clark’s hiring doesn’t mention the firing nor the fact that the… continue reading
Last Comic Standing 4 casting starts today; one comic will be selected by viewers
Last Comic Standing 4 begins its search for comics tonight with a stop at the Tempe Improv in Arizona. It then moves on to Austin, Chicago, New York, and Miami. While NBC’s casting page is next-to-useless, with its complete lack of information, but in a piece about the show’s casting directors, the East Valley Tribune… continue reading
NBC orders fourth season of Last Comic Standing
Even though the third season was somewhat of a dud, NBC has ordered a fourth season of Last Comic Standing. That third-season “[q]uickie production was a predictable ratings disappointment, and ‘Comic’ was not renewed for a summer 2005 run,” Variety reports. But “NBC reality chief Craig Plestis remained a supporter of the skein, however, and… continue reading