So Iliza wins, and we are scratching our heads trying to figure out what it was she performed in the final competition that actually made anyone laugh. We didn’t even chuckle. We have had much funnier experiences in a dirty restroom. Ooops!

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Iliza, an audience favorite early on, managed to win the competition. In her first sets, especially her second on the show, we found her quite amusing. Not stellar, but good enough to send home the other comics. It was clear from our polls, and from just having a funny [...]

Our polls went crazy this week-end on Last Comic Standing.
UPDATE: August 5, 2008
The polls are showing Jim Tavare as the clear winner in Last Comic Standing. Iliza is second, but it isn’t close at 45-13. Taking up the rear are Marcus and Louis. Louis I think hit a sour note this past week [...]

This year, this contest is inherently unfair. We do not like the sudden jump to the five finalists because a single performance can get you the prize. You could be mediocre for several weeks and survive, and then have your piece de resistance performance and win in the final. Or you could [...]

Tonight’s “Last Comic Standing” was a huge improvement over last week. They brought the bulk of the comics to the audience for voting, like we hoped they would in our last article, and it was a great show!!

If you missed last night’s “Last Comic Standing”, don’t fret too much, because you didn’t miss much. The show was drawn and tiring. The final face-off was OK, drawing the occasional laugh, but overall, just not too funny.

Bill Bellamy, the talented host, is always energetic and a great cheerleader for the show, but he can’t carry it by himself. He needs a bit of good humor from the contestants.

Last year was a disaster, with promising talent after promising talent ignored while boring acts were consistently chosen by the judges who appeared to never laugh as they picked the people they wished to torture us with.