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TV Squad presents the rest of the 2007-08 season
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Other Reality Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, Programming, Battlestar Galactica, Boston Legal, CSI, Desperate Housewives, ER, House, Law and Order, Lost, Scrubs, Grey's Anatomy, Bones, Supernatural, Numb3rs, Criminal Minds, Doctor Who, The Office, Last Comic Standing, Shark, 30 Rock, Ugly Betty, Brothers and Sisters, NCIS, Moonlight, Samantha Who? 
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Last Comic Standing: Season Finale
Filed under: OpEd, Last Comic Standing, Episode Reviews  (S05E15) When I used to teach high school English, one of my biggest pet peeves was reading a paper from a student who was obviously stretching two pages of ideas into the required four pages of the assignment. I actually preferred it when students came up short in page count instead of insulting my intelligence with superfluous words, plodding pacing, and ridiculous font and margin tweaks.
Watching the two hour -- that's right two hour -- finale ofLast Comic Standing, I couldn't help but be reminded of my...
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Last Comic Standing: Audience Vote Round #4
Filed under: Last Comic Standing, Episode Reviews (S05E14) Here's an amazing story: I arrived home this evening to find that my TiVo only recorded the last 25 minutes of LCS. With a review to write, I scrambled, calling everyone I knew within driving distance, trying to find the episode.
None of my friends had it (10 million viewers a week? None in South Jersey, apparently). I was bummed because I didn't want to have to write an incomplete review. It wasn't until after all this that I actually watched the final 25 minutes my TiVo grabbed.
Wouldn't you know that NBC...
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Last Comic Standing: Audience Vote #3
Filed under: Last Comic Standing, Episode Reviews (S01E13) It's unfortunate that after the NBC/Apple flare-up this week that people won't be able to easily download Last Comic Standing onto their IPods, because this week's show had it all:
A kinda, sorta standing O! A very apparent screw-up by one of the three remaining finalists! A set of produced pieces so poorly made that simply by airing them NBC set TV back 50 years (seriously, they turned my TV black and white).
What I'm saying is, who wouldn't want to take this show with them on the bus? The...
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Last Comic Standing: Audience Vote Round #2
Filed under: Last Comic Standing, Episode Reviews (S05E12) I can't help myself, I just need to blurt out tonight's winner: Doug Benson!
You almost thought I posted a pre-jump spoiler, didn't you? Admit it, you were sharpening your commenter fingers just ready to eviscerate me for ruining the show!
Well, I did no such thing. The only person who is ruining this show for you people is Bill Bellamy, and that's the way it's gonna stay!
Let's get on...
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Last Comic Standing: Audience Vote Round #1
Filed under: Last Comic Standing, Episode Reviews (S05E11) There's a famous story about Jerry Seinfeld. Early in his career, when he was starting to feel the first warmth of "industry heat", he was offered a spot on the Tonight Show. This was the early eighties, remember, when a killer four minutes and a wave from Johnny pretty much guaranteed that you were headed for future glory.
He turned them down. His reasoning was simple. He had a great four minutes and would probably have killed; what he was worried about...
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Last Comic Standing: Challenge Round #3
Filed under: Last Comic Standing, Episode Reviews (S05E10) In a lot of ways, writing my reviews ofLCS each week has been very easy. By hating the mindless format, the useless judges, the stupid challenges, the lousy editing, and the dearth of stand-up comedy, I was able to construct a pretty flawless template for each of my reviews: start with a thousand words or so about why one of the things I hated was so horrible, then review the comedy while commenting on how little of it there was, and finish up with a look at...
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Last Comic Standing: Challenge Round #2
Filed under: Last Comic Standing, Episode Reviews (S05E09) Remember that story about The Doors? The one where Ed Sullivan told them that they could only be on his show if they changed the lyrics of Light My Fire? They agreed, but when they went on Jim Morrison not only said the original lyric, but emphasized it. The message he was trying to send to Ed Sullivan and the network was that no amount of television exposure was worth selling out his integrity.
Watching Last Comic Standing tonight made me wish that Jim Morrison was still alive. And a stand-up comic. And on this...
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Last Comic Standing and America's Got Talent renewed
Filed under: Celebrities, Last Comic Standing, Pickups and Renewals  Great news for people who like standing comics and Americans who have talent: NBC has renewed both Last Comic Standing and America's Got Talent. Both series will return next summer.
The hosts from both shows, Talent's Jerry Springer and Standing's Bill Bellamy, will return for the new seasons. Talent judges Sharon Osbourne, David Hasselhoff and Piers Morgan will also return. Continue reading Last Comic Standing and America's Got Talent renewed Permalink | Last Comic Standing, Episode Reviews (S05E08) If you see several spelling errors throughout the course of my review, please excuse them. I didn't suddenly forget how to type it's just that... well, after I finished my review of the new NASCAR DVD (24x24 Wide Open with Jeff Gordon), I got pretty excited about how good it was. I mean, I'm not one to toot my own horn, but it was clearly above average (especially considering the source material).
Anyway, I read the review out loud to my wife and when I was done, I threw my keyboard on the floor in triumph!
It got smashed, of...
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