NBC is bringing back two reality shows that no one really cared were gone: Last Comic Standing, which aired its sixth season in the summer of 2008, and The Sing Off, which aired in December over a week. The stand-up comedian competition Last Comic Standing 7 will air in the summer, and will now be …
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Iliza Shlesinger won Last Comic Standing 6 last Thursday, becoming the first female in the show’s six-season history to win. She won $250,000 and a talent contract with NBC. She’ll start touring with the other finalists Aug. 29 through Jan. 31. On Friday, she told reporters that her sex doesn’t affect her comedy. “I know …
Raw footage from Last Comic Standing 6‘s auditions has appeared on YouTube in advance of its May 22 debut. Comedy blog Dead-Frog found the footage, and guesses it “is an attempt at that old viral marketing,” but notes that while the videos “were all uploaded a couple of days ago but none of them [had] …
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 …