Last Comic Standing - Air Date July 18
I went to see Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest last night. Captain Jack Sparrow is back and is his own devilish self once again! Johnny Depp is magnificent in the role. Orlando Bloom as Will Turner and Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann also bring new levels to their characters. Throw in one of the most wicked looking bad guys in years, the coolest looking cursed crew since the first movie, and a shocking ending you won't see coming, and you're left with one hell of a swashbuckling good time.
But isn't this supposed to be about Last Comic Standing? Yes it is. However, I need to explain why all the recaps are going to be late for the rest of the week, and this one is going to be in desperate need of filler. It's the final five, and each of them get five minutes to do a set. There will be no more shenannigans at the Queen Mary, and the worst of the lot are gone. This leaves very little to cover, and not a lot to snark at.
That doesn't mean there's nothing to snark at. Before the comedians are introduced, we see some file footage of the Los Angeles/Hollywood region during the day. This cuts to a helicopter at night and four of the comics screaming in fear, none of them looking particularly convincing as there is a lot of hamming going on. Ty Barnett particularly seemed to have a hard time keeping a straight face. Oh, it's a skit.
What happened to Josh Blue though? Did he refuse to participate in this cheese? No! He's the pilot! He has cerebral palsy, you see, so it's funny that he's the pilot. Actually, he delivered his part well enough to make it amusing. But still, please producers, no more sketches.
The rest of the show was a short introductory film before each performance, then the comedian's set.
First up was Roz, who we find out is a recovering addict. She works as a counsellor for addicts now, and uses humour to heal. Then her set, and she doesn't have jokes, she has problems. One problem she has is that she's not all that funny over an extended period of time. She didn't completely suck though and did have some laughs in there.
Next up was Ty Barnett who really loves his family. It's been hard for him to be away from them this long, but he's doing this for them. He was doing okay performing, just okay, but managed to end it with an hilarious bit on I don't remember because the tape's at home and I'm stuck at work. It was funny though, the best he's been all season.
Then it was Chris Porter's turn, who was being Chris Porter in his pre-set documentary. He, as expected, was the funniest of the night and he had some pretty risky material covering religion, Catholicism in particular. I know I wasn't big on him at first, but now I'll be choked if he doesn't win.
Josh Blue is a member of the U.S. national Paralympic soccer team. That's a good thing, because he surprisingly didn't hit a home run in his comedy. For one of the frontrunners in this competition, it was quite shocking. It wasn't horrible horrible, but it wasn't as good as expected. He did get a good shot in at Gabriel Iglesias and his indispensable cell phone though.
Michele Balan is the oldest one there, and she lives in New York. She was also pretty damned bad. Her last head-to-head-to-head-to-head was really good, and this is what she brings now?
At the end of the show, preliminary phone voting showed Michele and Chris (wha'?) as the bottom two, but that's based on very early votes.
Next week I'll try to put a lot more in. I knew these often take a long time to write, but going out to one movie and a late day at work really throw the schedule off.
To help make up for this truncated coverage and the Joey Gay level laugh quotient, I present to you a haiku...
Make us laugh, jesters
Sweet, dreadful clowns of tv
And hide your sad tears
But isn't this supposed to be about Last Comic Standing? Yes it is. However, I need to explain why all the recaps are going to be late for the rest of the week, and this one is going to be in desperate need of filler. It's the final five, and each of them get five minutes to do a set. There will be no more shenannigans at the Queen Mary, and the worst of the lot are gone. This leaves very little to cover, and not a lot to snark at.
That doesn't mean there's nothing to snark at. Before the comedians are introduced, we see some file footage of the Los Angeles/Hollywood region during the day. This cuts to a helicopter at night and four of the comics screaming in fear, none of them looking particularly convincing as there is a lot of hamming going on. Ty Barnett particularly seemed to have a hard time keeping a straight face. Oh, it's a skit.
What happened to Josh Blue though? Did he refuse to participate in this cheese? No! He's the pilot! He has cerebral palsy, you see, so it's funny that he's the pilot. Actually, he delivered his part well enough to make it amusing. But still, please producers, no more sketches.
The rest of the show was a short introductory film before each performance, then the comedian's set.
First up was Roz, who we find out is a recovering addict. She works as a counsellor for addicts now, and uses humour to heal. Then her set, and she doesn't have jokes, she has problems. One problem she has is that she's not all that funny over an extended period of time. She didn't completely suck though and did have some laughs in there.
Next up was Ty Barnett who really loves his family. It's been hard for him to be away from them this long, but he's doing this for them. He was doing okay performing, just okay, but managed to end it with an hilarious bit on I don't remember because the tape's at home and I'm stuck at work. It was funny though, the best he's been all season.
Then it was Chris Porter's turn, who was being Chris Porter in his pre-set documentary. He, as expected, was the funniest of the night and he had some pretty risky material covering religion, Catholicism in particular. I know I wasn't big on him at first, but now I'll be choked if he doesn't win.
Josh Blue is a member of the U.S. national Paralympic soccer team. That's a good thing, because he surprisingly didn't hit a home run in his comedy. For one of the frontrunners in this competition, it was quite shocking. It wasn't horrible horrible, but it wasn't as good as expected. He did get a good shot in at Gabriel Iglesias and his indispensable cell phone though.
Michele Balan is the oldest one there, and she lives in New York. She was also pretty damned bad. Her last head-to-head-to-head-to-head was really good, and this is what she brings now?
At the end of the show, preliminary phone voting showed Michele and Chris (wha'?) as the bottom two, but that's based on very early votes.
Next week I'll try to put a lot more in. I knew these often take a long time to write, but going out to one movie and a late day at work really throw the schedule off.
To help make up for this truncated coverage and the Joey Gay level laugh quotient, I present to you a haiku...
Make us laugh, jesters
Sweet, dreadful clowns of tv
And hide your sad tears
posted by Tabby at 9:09 p.m.
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