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I really enjoyed the first two seasons of NBC’s Last Comic Standing<\/a>. Thanks to those summer shows, I found out about comics like Rich Vos<\/a>, Todd Glass<\/a>, Rob Cantrell<\/a>, Kathleen Madigan, John Heffron<\/a> and Alonzo Bodden<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then NBC went and turned Season 3 into a fiasco as they tried to take advantage of the success of Season 2 and went right into a battle between the best comics from the first two seasons. The result was disaster so bad that they never showed the final episode on NBC. It ended up airing on Comedy Central at some point.<\/p>\n

That whole experience kind of soured me on the show. I watched some of the tryouts for Season 4, but couldn’t stick with it. I barely even noticed when Season 5 took place last year and looked headed for the same result this summer until I just happened to turn on the final tryout episode a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

I was hooked again. They have finished the tryouts and the semifinals. The first two comics were eliminated last night, thankfully both comics I really didn’t like too much. Esther Ku<\/a> just didn’t have much to offer and God’s Pottery finally ran the same schtick into the ground.<\/p>\n

I haven’t developed a true favorite yet, but that will eventually happen. I’m actually just happy I might be able to hear some fresh voices on XM’s comedy channels thanks to this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"