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Last Updated: 5/14/2008

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Saturday, June 07, 2008 
I'm a liar.  I said in the last "Brian and Jim's Last Stand" that it was the final installment.  I lied.  This is the final one... maybe!!!  Anyway, in case you're new to the blog, the first three installments take place 2/23, 2/28 and 3/2.  So, feel free to read those first or, if you already have read them, you can re-read them since they are so good and funny!  Either way, you should read them all several times. 

Okay, so, Last Comic Standing has begun airing on NBC and, as it turns out, Jim and I were in the first episode!  Yep!  Even though the whole waiting in line thing was a complete and total sham, we managed to be on NBC for almost 5 seconds!  In case you still have it Tivo-ed (and why wouldn't you), we are in the episode when they are at the Tempe Improv and they are showing this guy dancing around like a jackass outiside.  No, Jim nor I are the jackass, but we a standing and watching in the background in the upper right-hand corner.  Three days of waiting in line and that was our reward. 

The only cool thing was that we got to see some comics, with which we have worked, make more of a showing on a national comedy show than us.  Some worse, some better, but still, good for them!

Here's what made me mad about the first episode (which happened to be the Tempe Improv episode)... all those people that were dressed in costumes that were planted by NBC that weren't stand-up comdians at all, got all sorts of TV time!  But the part that made me really mad was when the VERY FIRST "COMEDIAN" got on-stage to perform (another plant that was dresses like a crazy, gym-guy or something), yelled out, "I've been waiting in line for 2 days so you get this!"  Then he started running around screaming and taking his clothes off.

Look, I'm fine with NBC editing and lying to create the illusion that all the comics that performed were not people with appointments and plants and they were actually people who waited in line for 2 days (like we did), just don't have the first guy get up on-stage and say it!  Because he didn't!  He got there at 2pm, the day of the auditions!  Hell, he is probably an actor that lives in Tempe, that had to roll out of bed around noon, put on a costume and drive over to the Tempe Improv and act like a liar for 3 minutes. Awesome.

Don't watch Last Comic Standing, please.  At least not until next season, when Jim or I get on it and we have forgiven them, because we're hypcrites who don't stand by our convictions.
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