Did anyone watch last night. I missed most of the last half hour. I gather Stella and April are gone. Can't say I'm sorry. Both of them got on my last nerve....well Stella did, the other one was working on it.

I watched. Yes, it was Stella and April who were sent home. I was very glad to see Stella go. I didn't like her style of comic delivery and she was obnoxious to Roz in particular but seemed to get on EVERYONE's nerves. Roz is too loud even when she doesn't have a microphone in front of her mouth. I hope she goes soon. She would drive me nuts if I had to live with her. I'd also like to see Joey Gay eliminated. I don't find him funny and his strategy in the heckling challenge was weird...DON'T heckle when he was supposed to (during April's act) and then heckle her when it was time for her to heckle him and later talk trash about her.

I don't mind Roz so much. She (at least) makes me laugh. I thought Stella absolutely bombed in the head to head and I didn't laugh once at April's routine. Plus, her facial expressions really annoyed me. Glad both of them are gone. Can't think of the name of the woman who won though? She really made me laugh!! And afterwards I was wondering if I found her funnier because I'm a New Yorker and she just reminded me of people I know. But - she won 83% of the vote, so I guess I wasn't alone. Overall, I laughed quite a lot last night. My favorite joke of the night came from Josh was heckling Chris about his hair looking like a chia-pet. Chris's comeback was great! :lol:

Last Comic Standing 4, Episode 5: Natural Selection by Dale Sherman -- 06/22/2006 The twelve finalists move to the Queen Mary for the “house” portion of the series. Within minutes the cast is ready to throw someone overboard. Meanwhile, one comic refuses to participate in the first challenge… until it suits him. All this, plus a look at ratings, the producers trying to explain themselves for Episode Four, who won the first challenge and who won the latest on-line vote. Just a click away. Last week saw the airing of Episode Four and the reveal of who exactly was going to “the house.” To say there was uproar from viewers is putting it mildly; people were livid over some of those who made it – in particular, Stella – and some who didn’t – in particular Mikki Payne and Doug Benson. The slew of angry responses on the NBC.com message board was so high that two of the executive producers, Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz, responded with a blog at the official NBC website. As I mentioned to a friend last week, this merely stirred things up even more. Although trying to be helpful and a bit lighthearted to break the tension when explaining the rules of the show and basis for picking the final twelve, all it really did was give those who were angry material to chew up and spit back at the producers. Comments such as “I hope you get cancer,” and distaste at what a couple of readers thought was condescension from the executive producers only added fuel to the fire. Still, even into this group of sniping childlike behavior were a handful of people that had legitimate questions and ideas to discuss. They wanted to understand better why certain people were picked, as well as mentioning that – like most people, myself included – didn’t think the final twelve were the horror of horrors that some beat their chest in agony over. I would have assumed that the producers would have looked at those comments, both good and…well… idiotic, and learned that the first blog wasn’t going to change anyone’s mind on the matter. Or, at least, that there are some viewers who didn’t feel that Stella making the final twelve was the end of the world. Instead, this week we got a new blog from the two that is all about them reprinting the nasty comments so they could shoot the writers down in flames (literally, in an Internet-kinda way) in an unprofessional manner. And to those that had legitimate questions and concerns? Nothing. Evidently viewers with those types of comments were not worth of response. Shame to everyone all around there – from the readers who had nothing of value to say to the executive producers who couldn’t rise above it and move on. I’m sure that there will be more to come there on this situation as time goes by. Any controversy about Episode Four certainly didn’t hurt it in the ratings, however. Even up against the NBA Finals on ABC, LCS4 did well, with a 4.0 in the ratings and Number Two, after the Finals, in the 18-49 demographics. Not too bad, really. Of course, if ratings go down this week due to the controversy over Stella making it, NBC will no doubt assume it to be the usual dip that occurs in ratings once the show moves from the semi-finals to the house, and not any type of boycott from viewers. Speaking of which, this week’s episode starts off with the twelve comics heading toward their new home for the duration of the challenge period of the program. Roz states that she has no idea what is to come, but she’s excited because “nothing is going to do what Last Comic Standing will do” for her career. Rebecca is anxious as well; or, rather, uncomfortable in the bus. She is having to sit on the very edge of a bus seat with two other women and the corner of the seat “was right in my –” A ship’s whistle blows and the contestants find that they are going to be staying on the Queen Mary – “The Jewel of the Nile,” as Anthony Clark refers to the ship once everyone is on-board. For those who are not aware, the ship is in permanent dock; no longer sailing the ocean, but merely used as a tourist attraction with dining, cabins and even its own comedy club. This makes the ship a rather unique and natural progression for the show, as one major complaint that past contestants had about the house used was that they were limited in “flexing” their comedic muscles in front of an audience. Now they are staying somewhere that presents a natural outlet for their need to perform. At least, one would hope that the producers and NBC would allow them that luxury to help make for a better show. Of course, it’s always possible they picked the Queen Mary due to a money deal with the owners, but one could hope that NBC saw the benefits involved for the comics as well. As the twelve walk on the ship, Josh Blue states that “one of us is going overboard, but I’m not saying who.” A camera-shot of Stella follows, and one has to wonder if the editors had a chance to play with the show between last week and this. I mean, if everyone is set to hate her anyway, the editors could just go hog-wild with that line of thinking. Clark tells the comics that they will be there; doing challenges and facing each other in head-to-head competition; until only six remain. Clark then sends them off to their suites. Actually, they are rather small rooms, with twin beds that are only “five inches apart” from each other. Gabriel Iglesias is sharing a room with Josh Blue and they celebrate by Gabriel carrying Josh over the threshold. Their happiness is in exactly opposite proportions to that of the anger Roz and Stella share over being bunkmates. Roz isn’t too thrilled about being given a twin bed for “my big ass,” but less so with having to share the room with Stella. Roz tells Stella, “I’d rather sleep on the deck than with your whining ass.” What caused her to say this is unknown, as the viewers are not shown anything to explain why Roz thinks Stella is a “whining ass.” We just have to go with Roz and assume she must know something we don’t. As for Stella, she assumes that she must come off worse than even she thought she did. After everyone is settled in their Royal Suites, they meet up as a group for a fancy dinner on the ship. Everyone appears a little nervous, but happy to be there. All except Stella, who at first refuses to pick up her glass to toast with the others and then ends the toast by declaring, “It’s game-time, BITCHES!!” Everyone ignores the comment, leading Stella to force her rather tepid joke by pointedly stating, “It’s all comedy!” Chris jumps on Stella’s excuse by giving another toast: “Here’s to Stella being a great bitch!” To this everyone laughs. All except Stella, of course. After some free time to relax on the decks of the ship – including a cute moment where Bil Dwyer “jumps” overboard and the other comment on how it will affect the competition – they meet again to get a card from the gypsy teller fortune-telling machine that was used in Seasons One and Two. The card that Bil pulls out says, “Boo me once, shame on you. Boo me twice and it’s going to get ugly.” Joey Gay think it has something to do with being ghosts and is so insistent that the others are reluctantly agreeing with him by the time Anthony Clark turns up to explain what the card really meant. The object of the first challenge is for the twelve comics to be split up into pairs. The first comic will then perform a five minute set in the Queen Mary’s comedy club, while the second comic will be a heckler in the audience. Then the two will switch roles. The audience at the performances will then vote for who they felt was the best heckler and the best comic. The two winners will get immunity from the first head-to-head competition the next day. Josh Blue and Chris Porter are paired up. Chris wonders if Josh’s handicap is a place to go with his heckling. He believes that Josh would be okay, but Chris doesn’t want America to hate him for going that direction. He decides against it when Josh performs, instead just going into a more generic “you’re not funny” type of heckling. Josh seems receptive to the response and the two plays off each other well. Josh breaks up entirely when he replies to some innuendo from Chris about his mother with the information that his mother is dead. They keep going, nevertheless, and the two seemed like a natural pairing. Kristin Key is paired with Michele Balan and Kristin is excited. She has spent a lot of time dealing with hecklers in her career, so she felt she had a good chance of acing the challenge. She does well against Michele as a heckler, who also plays into the role well. They are a close second to Josh and Chris so far. Rebecca Correy faces Roz as the heckler and badly stumbles. Rebecca decides to go for snaps, which only kicked in Roz’s defense with a few of her own before declaring, “I’ve got a hundred snaps and I’m only on number three!” Rebecca can’t stop laughing and it is clear that Roz has gotten the better of Rebecca. Gabriel and Bil are next, with Bil obviously just playing around a little and not trying to be too disrespectful. Ty and Stella, however, are clearly not fans of each other, with Ty calling Stella “Ho-sanne” at one point in order to shut her down during her heckling stint. April Macie and Joey Gay are last, and April is a little worried as to what Joey will hit her with. She goes out only to be able to do her full five minutes without one peep out of Joey beyond laughter. April is stunned and doesn’t know what to make of it when she goes back to the dressing room. She is a little worried about using anything against Joey now, since Joey didn’t go after her. Joey, on the other hand, announces to those in the other dressing room that he didn’t heckle because he didn’t want to “sh** on their craft” by heckling someone, as he has too much respect for what they do. That sounds fairly noble. Yet, we clearly see Anthony Clark tell the audience exactly what the challenge is all about. The audience knows that this heckler in the audience is actually just a fellow comic that is there to try to ante up the game a bit; plus, they are aware that the challenge is to see how the comics handle having someone as creatively funny as themselves heckle them. Moreso, it is clear that some of the comics are truly enjoying the chance to rib each other while performing. Thus, Joey’s noble sentiment is slightly skewed, for it is not like he is lurking in the darkness and heckling someone out of spite; he is there to show how April works against such a nightmare for a comic. In essence, he cheated her out of a chance to prove herself for lack of trying. Perhaps he felt uncomfortable with the thought and just couldn’t even come up with anything; sensing that he couldn’t do it because of his hatred for heckling. Yet, when April finally begins heckling Joey in his chance to do a five-minute set, he just literally tears her up and spits her out. Viciously, and not quite in an amusing manner either. So one could say that he couldn’t dish it out, and he couldn’t take it either. In the end, he ruined his and April’s chances to win immunity, be it for a noble reason or not. Bil becomes the comic, while Gabriel is the heckler who can’t stop laughing HARD at the jokes Bil is saying. It’s amusing, but Bil takes it as he dishes it out – like it’s not a big deal at all and just something to pass an evening with. Like a game of checkers with maybe a free pretzel as a prize if he wins. Stella and Ty don’t come off well when roles are reversed, while Roz seems unsure what to make of Rebecca’s Monique comments. Until she finally cracks up, that is. Michele and Kristin give as well as take when their roles are switched. In an amusing side note, NBC bleeped the F word when Michele was talking about the iceberg, but didn’t bother telling the closed-captioner. So anyone deaf or hard-of-hearing got an eyeful when watching the show with the closed-captioning on. (As a further aside: Y’know. I can just see all the viewers mad at Stella making LCS4 calling the FCC about the word in the closed-captioning just to spite NBC.) Chris and Josh end the challenge with Chris onstage and Josh heckling him. They merely just fall back into the same trade-offs as they did to start, with Josh now having a dead sister. Both just crack up, with the audience nearly on the floor laughing at them. After the audience votes for their favorites, Anthony Clark tells the comics that in seventeen years of doing comedy, he had never seen such an experience as that night. People were literally crying from laughing. Too bad the audience at home didn’t get to see more of that then. Anyway, Clark announces that the best heckler was Roz, which makes sense as Rebecca was completely lost after Roz went after her. As for best comic, Kristin lost by one vote, with Chris Porter being the winner. For the head-to-head competition, Roz and Chris will have immunity. Kristin worries that she will be challenged, while Michele wants “no drama” as they wait for the voting to occur for the head-to-head. “No drama” could have meant Roz and Stella perhaps, as they two are to the point of screaming at each other (and Michele scurries out of the room as fast as possible). They obviously don’t like each other, and no one seems happy to hear them yelling either. A bit of a fast-forward sends everyone into the boiler room of the ship for the head-to-head voting. (Boiler Room? Why, ANT could do his whole act here!) (Sorry.) Clark announces that the first head-to-head will actually be a head-to-head-to-head, with three comics going up and only one returning. The comics will go through the boiler room, down the rope in the water that Mrs. Rosen gave her life for, and then up the ladders until they have to turn off the steam – Sorry, that’s Poseidon Adventure. Instead, the comics go to a booth and say who they think they are funnier than. Personally I like the idea of the steam and the water and the whole death thing, but there you go. The voting goes as follows: Roz picks Stella Chris picks Michele Ty picks Stella Bil picks ANT, but then decides on Michele Rebecca picks Bil Michele picks Stella Stella picks April Josh picks Stella Kristin picks Michele April picks Michele Joey picks April Gabriel refuses to pick anyone except as a name from his baseball cap. He picks Rebecca. With the exception of Rebecca picking Bil, everyone else picks a woman to go up against. Michele and Stella tie with the same number of votes, so they will automatically go up for the head-to-head. They get to pick a final person to compete against and the two decide on the third top vote, which is April. April and Stella go into the competition at the Alex Theater feeling that they have no chance of losing (although April also admits that she will shoot herself in the face if Stella wins). Michele is worried and asks the others to not say bad things about her if she has to leave. Roz tells her to make sure she brings her “white ass back home!” as Michele leaves the ship for the competition. After a brief and (intentionally) laugh-free intro from Anthony, Stella comes out to perform. She talks about being pregnant and married and (as per usual in these situations) repeats a couple of jokes heard before in the show. She is okay in an acceptable emcee kind of way. Someone who is there to introduce other acts and keep the audience’s attention on the stage between the comics. Unfortunately, nothing that propels her past that level, however. Michele concentrates on herself and her career. It is very fluid and easy to listen to and enjoy. She comes off well in her segment. April discusses dating and repeats a couple of gags from earlier. She does well and it will be a tough choice between April and Michele from what I could tell. After the three are finished, the audience punches in their votes on the little device on their armrests, thereby opening garage doors for hundreds of miles around. Seriously, the votes are tallied and the person with the lowest votes is Stella. Instead of saying who had the next lowest votes, Clark says that the winner will get $1,000 as the Capital One Audience Favorite as well as go back to the ship. The winner, with 83% of the vote, is Michele. Michele seems to be in mild shock at the results, while April plays it well and applauds Michele’s win. Stella is seen leaving backstage, saying in voice-over that she wanted to go home and see her kid, so she was happy to go. Besides, she goes on to say, everyone hated her anyway. April says to the camera that she just wants people to know that women can be as funny as men. She also saw NOT being the first one voted off as a small consolation prize. So now two are gone, including the comic that started all the controversy for LCS4. Did NBC want to cause drama in the house with Stella? Perhaps, but if so, this proves how erroneous such thinking from the network and the producers can be at times. After all, the point of this particular reality show is NOT the “gosh how will they live together without killing each other?” reality aspect of such shows as Survivor or Big Brother, but getting laughs. People want humor in a show called Last Comic Standing, not drama. When Sean rubbed people the wrong way in Season One, he was voted out immediately. Same with Bonnie in Season Two. The comics are not interested in such conflict, because it throws them off their game in the pursuit of being funny; nor are the audience interested because it is not what they watch the program for. Stella tried to drum up some heat for herself when getting on the ship. It worked against everything the others wanted to prove and they swiftly dealt with it so they could move on and improve. A perfect example of natural selection. Now if only NBC will realize that fighting against the show by trying to tie-in typical, boring reality-show elements into LCS just doesn’t work. Source: http://www.realitynewsonline.com/cgi-bin/ae.pl?mode=1&article=article9750.art&page=1

How cool is that. Two of my favourites won the head to head. I didn't like Joey Gay...just don't like yelling. But he did go out with class. Bill Dwyer....didn't dislike him, but he was boring....of course imo :wink: They all sucked at the improv thing though. I didn't think that Rebecca did better. Can't remember who it was now, but I did think someone else was funnier. Why did no one vote out Roz?????? She's getting on my nerves big time.

I really do like Michele. Her whole thing about "how far do I need to be from my vagina?" had me in tears. There's just something about her delivery that hits me. I also like Chris. Bil and Joey just weren't very funny (imo). Bil's the host of some show on Game Show Network and I always see him on those VH1 "We Love ... " shows. What's he need this for? He's already gettin' work. :wink: I can't stand the girl who won immunity. As soon as she's in the head to head - she's gone. Sam I Am has spoken.

I don't like Joey Gay's delivery. His material is fine but the way he yells makes me think of that jerk on the OxiClean commercials. Shut up already! I thought Michele was the funniest of the four comics and was surprised she didn't come in first. I also don't like the girl who got immunity and I agree that the first head-to-head competition she's in, she's gone.

Last Comic Standing 4, Episode 6: Crotch Football by Dale Sherman -- 06/28/2006 The twelve have been reduced to ten, with Michele Balan (right) coming back to the Queen Mary. Having proven herself, will she be safe from another head-to-head competition? How will the comics do with their challenge, and why is Adam Carolla involved? Who gets a kick in the crotch? Most importantly, who gets to stay and who has to leave after a special four-way head-to-head? The answers are right here with just a click. After last week’s rather long article for Episode 5 was sent off, I realized that I never did mention who won the online voting for Week 3. Strangely enough, only one person wrote in to ask why I didn’t mention it. This either says something about the lack of concern people have for the online vote, or that no one is reading the articles. I’ll say it’s the first one so I can sleep better at night. It almost goes without saying, but it was Nikki Payne. As for Week 4, the five contestants up were Doug Benson, Bruce Fine, Moody McCarthy, J. Chris Newberg, and Josh Wolf. The winner was Josh Wolf, which surprised me somewhat as I still thought Doug Benson was the best of the group. So far the four online finalists: Kaitlin Colombo, Wild Willy Parson, Nikki Payne, and Josh Wolf. This week, the final group of semi-finalists will have their sets up on the NBC.com site for people to vote for. They are: Matt Fulchiron, Modi Rosenfeld, John Roy, Flip Schultz, and Theo Von. Now, I say “final” as NBC stated that there would only be five rounds and then the five winners would go up against each other. However, it should be pointed out that even if the comics shown over the past few weeks had been from the semi-finals it would leave three comics not having had a chance to be seen. Also, the first online vote included comics that didn’t even make it to the semi-finals (including the winner, Kaitlin Colombo). So maybe they will play this out a little longer to give the rest of the semi-finalists a chance to win the online contest. If things go as NBC stated originally (and, let’s be fair, sometimes they change their plans midway through these things), the online finalists will go up against each other online. The two comics who get the top votes will then appear on the next-to-last episode of LCS4 in order to compete against each other for the viewers at home. Viewers will vote for their favorite online comic while also voting for the Last Comic Standing of the remaining comics from the Queen Mary. This has already caused some confusion for fans who believe that the comics returning will “go to the house” and/or compete against the remaining Queen Mary contestants. It’s really two separate contests, with final competitions and winners being picked in the same episodes, not combined into one contest. To do that, really, wouldn’t be very fair to the people who had to go through all the challenges and competitions anyway when you think about it. Before heading into this week’s episode, a quick look at the ratings: Episode 5 got back up to a 4.8 with an 8 share, which was a bounce back after a couple of 4.0 these past two weeks. It ended up third after Fox with House and ABC with basketball, but did place first in non-special programming for the networks in the 18-49 demographics, with a 3.5. So things aren’t looking too shabby for the show. Nor for Michele as she heads back to the Queen Mary at the start of this week’s episode. She beat April Macie and Stella Stolper in the first three-way head-to-head competition with 83% of the vote. Everyone appears to be happy to see her back, although Michele suspected that they would be expecting April to appear at the door instead of her. Kristin Key figures that after Michele’s win, no one will want to face her. To calm everyone’s nerves after the busy day, the group is treated to a Moroccan dinner, featuring twins as belly dancers with snakes around their necks. No idea if the snakes are twins as well. Josh says as he sees the girls come in, “Jesus DOES listen to my prayers!” After the girls dance for a while, some of the comics join in and it’s mildly amusing, but if the producers were expecting riotous comedy from the situation, they were no doubt sadly disappointed. Still, the comics thought it was pretty cool. What isn’t cool is being woken up at 2:30 in the morning for the next challenge. No one is sure why, but they get dressed and stumble onto the bus. Well, all except Bil Dwyer, who is wide awake and happily sits through the trip with no problem as everyone else tries to get some sleep on the brightly-lit bus. They arrive at KLSX in Los Angeles at 5:30 in the morning. Now here’s an interesting thing: The Queen Mary is in Long Beach, California. Adam Carolla’s show is broadcast out of KLSX in Los Angeles. A quick check on MapQuest shows that the distance between the two places is 27.58 miles, for a normal driving time of 35 minutes. The comics left at 3:30 and arrived at 5:30, so they were driving for a full two hours in the middle of the night to go less than thirty miles. Was the idea that of making the comics extra-tired before they had to do their challenge? Could be, but if so, it is never mentioned on the show. Instead, it looks like they just got a bad driver who didn’t know where they were going. At the studio, Anthony Clark – the host of LCS4 – is nowhere to be seen. He evidently doesn’t need to get up at 2:30, or even 5:30, to go anywhere. Instead, Adam greets the group to tell them that the challenge is for them to each take an envelope on the table in front of them. In each envelope is a magazine that the comics must then write a one-minute routine about, which they will then perform on Adam’s radio show that morning. Adam will judge the comics and pick a winner, who will then have immunity from the next head-to-head competition. Adam comes off as rather socialable and, ironically enough, a better host for the show than Anthony Clark from what we’ve seen so far in the series. Chris feels like he’s dead when he pulls out a magazine called Latina Weddings. It’s in Spanish and he doesn’t read or speak it. Josh gets Weapons of Death, which he jokes is an issue that he already has. Bil gets Sscats! and doesn’t seem enthused, nor do most of the others when they see their magazines. Meanwhile, Kristin wonders if she is the true underdog of the comics and is worried that she’ll be picked for the next head-to-head. Roz is first with an astrology/numerology/sex magazine. She reads off her jokes – focusing on the sex aspect – in a flat fashion and doesn’t come off well. Gabriel is next with an agricultural magazine and is somewhat better than Roz. Chris seems to just wait for the torture to end as he stumbles through some stuff about the wedding magazine, but Ty kills with some good material about the car magazine he was given. Michele does well with hers, but Josh Blue realizes that he is eating it as he goes through the paces. Bil lucked out with cats, as it’s an easy and traditional comedy setup and thus he comes off well. Joey starts off okay, but stumbles early and Adam’s comments only make it worse. He states later than he hated doing it, and combine that with his lack of participation in the previous challenge (the heckling one from Episode 4) and one gets the impression that improvising material is not one of Joey’s strong suits. Or, perhaps, that he really hates being told to suddenly spring forth a fountain of material on demand. I wouldn’t be surprised if the latter was really the case. Kristin Key talks about the Modern Knitting magazine she has and is great. Absolutely the best of the group in coming up with material and Adam is shown laughing along with her. However, she runs out of material a few seconds before her minute is up. Rebecca is last and talks about a beefcake magazine she has. Her jokes come off as if she was just reading from the magazine and not trying to be funny, but the punchline of “shoving a tampon up your @$$!” seemingly kills Adam. Indeed, he picks her as the winner after disqualifying Kristin – who he said was otherwise the funniest but didn’t fill her whole time. Thus, if anyone wanted to win, they should have stuck with jokes that fit morning radio rather than anything that was actually funny it appears. Or ripping off old South Park episodes must do it. One of the two. Back at the ship, the comics play football on the deck and Joey jokes about how bad he is when Josh Blue is catching more footballs than he is. Kristin and Josh then play a game of Crotch football that involves Josh repeatedly kicking a ball at Kristin to see if he can connect with a shot to her crotch. He finally does it and the game is over. Well, if you’re bored, you’ll do just about anything to pass time. The day of the head-to-head arrives and Rebecca is dancing because she has immunity. The downside of such happiness is that it makes her a target for the next round IF she doesn’t win immunity in the future. Rebecca is asked who she will pick and she says that she will never pick a woman, as they have to stick together. She then makes the rather crude comment, “I think Roz is a woman, so she’s out .” Yep, she’s destined for the next head-to-head after this one. In the boiler room, Kurt Russell dives into the water to see if he can shut off the propeller. Okay, that’s my second Poseidon Adventure/Poseidon joke and I’ll stop now. Seriously, the comics arrive to find Anthony Clark still hidden away there and ready to tell them that they will have another three-way head-to-head. The comics go off to vote, with Josh having fun by wearing taped-together glasses and joking around, while Bil wonders where the fire exits are and stumbles over the chair. Gabriel once again chickens out by refusing to pick a comic and goes for pieces of paper. While it may seem chivalrous, it also means that he doesn’t have to actually come up with a person he thinks he is better than, and thus doesn’t have to worry about them coming after him for the head-to-head. Nice work. Rebecca picks Joey, which Joey thought was not a surprise. Josh and Ty pick Bil, while Chris picks Kristin. Roz picks Michele, probably figuring that no one else would and she therefore wouldn’t have to worry about being picked for the competition. Josh picks Gabriel. Kristin picks Chris. Michele picks Joey Gay, while Bil picks Michele. At that point it is a three-way tie between Joey, Michele, and Bill. Gabriel then pulls Chris’ name and it becomes a four-way tie. So Bil, Joey, Michele, and Chris will all face each other in the head-to-head competition. Two will leave and two will come back. Ty is surprised by the results, and he can’t understand why anyone would want to pick on Michele again after she went through the trouble of winning the first one. Kristin believes that Joey will win because he is the hungriest for it (maybe it’s the teeth that make her think that way). Meanwhile, Michele packs again, telling the camera that she gets more anxious packing the bag then she does when doing the competition. At the theater, Michele says she is exhausted, but pumped up for the competition. Joey, on the other hand, just wants Michele to eat her words for saying she is funnier than him. Joey is first and talks about his name, how women cycle together, the Irish, and the Mexican army. He does well until the women-cycling bit, which isn’t delivered well and seems to confuse the audience at first. Chris Porter is next and talks about smoking pot and driving, as well as condoms. He is very good and is obviously way ahead of Joey in the competition so far. Bil clips through a series of jokes about Armenians and kids. It’s not bad at all, but he just seems to be going through the paces, as if he really doesn’t want to be there. Because of that, he doesn’t come off as well. Michele talks about cops on bikes, breast implants, being over 40, and a remote-controlled sexual device. She wins over the audience and it really appears that Michele and Chris will be the winners. Which is exactly what happens. Chris gets 52% of the vote and is the Capital One Audience favorite thanks to the voting. Bil has the lowest percentage, which he just brushes off as he leaves the show, while Joey is next lowest and he leaves feeling good about being on the show as well. With Michele and Chris left, they walk over to Anthony Clark. Clark appears to not want to be near them as he closes out the show. Not as much fun as the previous week’s show with the heckling challenge, but still interesting to watch thanks to a chance to see four comics do more of their material on-stage than normally seen. Plus, the two who seemed to do the best won, so there wasn’t any feeling of a let-down over winners as in past seasons. Next week, there will be fireworks! Literally. Because LSC4 will not be on due to a July 4th Holiday Special airing in its place. In two weeks, however, we’ll have the comics facing each other in a roast competition with Gabriel as the roastee. Also, the hammer is coming down on a contestant who has violated the house rules. Source: http://www.realitynewsonline.com/cgi-bin/ae.pl?mode=1&article=article6216.art&page=1

I watched for the first time ever...and it was okay. I like Chris far more than anyone else. Although, I didn't think Joey was bad. Michelle's jokes didn't crack me up...but probably were alot funnier to the women in the audience. Bill's was indeed the worst...though not bad. He was the only one I never laughed out loud once during his routine. He just didn't have any edge. I guess he's a kinder, gentler comic. :lol:

Wow, did not see that coming. I'd read that one person gets the boot for breaking the rules, but sure didn't think it would be Gabe. What a show last night. Chris was brilliant during the roast. I have liked this guy right from the 1st audition. Personally I thought all 3 of those people should go home. I just haven't found Ty amusing at all. I've never liked Rebecca. I did like Kristen, but she was just off yesterday. Jay, I was saying the same thing to my daughter last night. I like Michelle, but not everyone would. She did like Chris the best too. I hope he wins this....well so far anyway LOL

I missed Ty's routine but I knew he couldn't do much worse than Rebecca and Kristen. Like you, bookie, I've never liked Rebecca. I don't think Kristen is funny, either, so I'm glad they're both gone. Gabe was totally retarded. He already was in trouble for bringing a blackberry with him on the show and then he sought out a phone on the yacht, knowing that was against the rules. He might have had a shot at winning but now we'll never know. Chris was my favorite at the roast. He did a great job. Most of the women totally sucked and their routines were painful to watch. I thought Rebecca was the worst at the roast so I was surprised when Kristen got the least audience response.

I really wanted Kristen to do better. I liked her from her auditions and thought she'd get better as the show went on. *sigh* This is why I never try to guess who will win anything.