Jon Reep won Last Comic Standing 5 last night, taking home the show’s new $250,000 cash prize, an NBC talent contract, and a half-hour special on Bravo. While the show auditioned internationally for the first time, its winner is from North Carolina, and runner-up Lavell Crawford is from Missouri. The top five comics–Jon, Lavell, Gerry …
This is the summer of reality talent competitions; there are at least six American Idol rip-offs currently airing, and six Project Runway-style series will air by the end of the summer. You’d think that producers and networks had run out of ideas. Two of the stage/judges/audience series debuted on ABC last week: The Next Best …
The winner of Last Comic Standing 5 will receive a talent contract and, for the first time this year, a cash prize of $250,000. That’s the same amount as the show awarded during its controversial, all-star third season. Previous seasons have awarded talent representation and stand-up specials, although sometimes those are substituted. For the record, …
Last Comic Standing will switch hosts again for its fifth season, as Bill Bellamy will replace season four host Anthony Clark, NBC announced. Perhaps more significantly, the show is bringing on “new talent scouts,” and they are comics who appeared on the show in the past who will apparently replace NBC’s Ross Mark and Bob …
NBC has announced open casting calls for Last Comic Standing 5, and the locations include three cities outside of the United States. The show will cast in LA (Feb. 26), New York (March 21), Minneapolis (March 27), San Antonio (March 30), and Tempe (April 3). But NBC’s casting page notes that the show “will also …