Last Comic Standing: Minneapolis and Nashville
This was the last night for the American comics on the Last Comic Standing – next week is the international comics in Miami, then off to Las Vegas for the semifinals. The judges tonight in Minneapolis were Kate Flannery and Brian Baumgartner from “The Office.” The one guy that really, really made me laugh in Minneapolis was Pete Lee. He was okay the first time we saw him, but that night, he just killed me. His joke about the damage a dime can do if you drop it from 1,000 feet or whatever then he went into why don’t we drop 73 cents on Iraq instead of bombs was hilarious. By the time he got to part about how when those countries ask why we don’t send money and we can say we did and that we are bringing change to the Middle East, I was just about to die! Pete is moving on to the semifinals as is John Evans (his Goodwill joke was funny) and Dan Cummins (his Squirrelador joke was great). I do hate that Dan Mellard didn’t make it – love his jokes about the neighbors with the doormat that said “Wipe Your Paws.” He figured they were either werewolves or had a dog that could read and either way was cool.
In Nashville, they served up more funny with John Ratzenberger and George Wendt - yes, Cliff and Norm - serving as judges. Dale Jones (he was SO spastic, but funny!), Heath Hyche (he almost killed me with the “learned tae bo, can’t fight unless there is music playing thing”), Erin Jackson (loved her stripper joke about heels), and Mary Mack are moving on. Mary Mack was funny, but that slow, Steven Wright kind of funny and I am not sure that it really worked for me.
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