And we have a house back. No ship. No 'we'll just stick them in a hotel between challenges'. A house.

So. Thirteen people counted as twelve elimination slots: we can safely presume God's Pottery get one vote between them, perform, advance, and get removed together. Two females. So little interest in the audition stage after the endless drag-out and walk down NBC's history lane that I caught maybe twenty minutes altogether after the first two weeks. Fortunately, five of those were spent with Marcus, whose Willy Wonka routine (which felt like it was cut down from fifteen minutes) rocked the house.

It sounds as if we might be doing double-eliminations again, though -- gee, that worked out so well last time. Take forever on the auditions, rush through the best part of the show, and then need a month-plus to declare a winner? Yeah, that always boosts the ratings.

Feh.

One step backwards, two off a cliff.

• RE: The auditions are over.,Fishercat, 02:41 PM, 07-04-08
  • RE: The auditions are over.,Estee, 03:04 PM, 07-04-08
• RE: The auditions are over.,Pretty_Kitty, 03:03 PM, 07-04-08
  • RE: The auditions are over.,Estee, 03:06 PM, 07-04-08
    • RE: The auditions are over.,Fishercat, 09:54 PM, 07-04-08
• RE: Marcus,EmoEmoEmo, 07:51 PM, 07-04-08
  • RE: Marcus,Snidget, 09:47 PM, 07-04-08
  • RE: Marcus,survivorscott, 09:17 AM, 07-06-08
• RE: The auditions are over.,Loree, 09:11 PM, 07-05-08

I didn't see the first semifinals, but the second one was sort of bizarre.

They chose four of the best, which is their ****ing job. Iliza was a strong comedienne as well, so choosing her was great. The porn song guy, eh, could be worst. And then...

Fricking Esther Ku.

Annoying personality, really annoying laugh, unfunny routine, insulting to all races (especially her own), and just generally a scourge. And she made.

LCS finds a way to ruin it every year.

I thought the quota system might be dead, given that we're nowhere near half-female on this cast and the majority of the contestants can be described as 'a bunch of really, really white people'. But no -- apparently we still have to get one ultra-annoying unfunny comedian in every pool. It's mandatory.

Maybe that's why Richard Belzer looked so poleaxed in the last few shots: the 'judges' might have just seen another override.

2 females?! Thats the best they could do??? Idiots.

Oh and papa CJ made me so uncomfortable I had to mute him. NOT FUNNY.

Im very unexcited about this season and I lvoe me some stand up!

Two females.

No woman has ever won LCS. And this year, our hopes are down to Iliza and a walking argument for ten-foot long hooks.

The worst part about it is that I saw at least four other women who deserved to move on, or get a shot. Andi and Erin Jackson from the first episode, Jackie Kashian and Mary Mack from the second episode. And they only took two, and one was Esther.

Ugh.

I'm hoping someone will explain Marcus' Willy Wonka routine. I guess I'm not a big enough fan of the movie to have fallen in love with it.

On the basis of that routine, I wouldn't have moved him forward. Together with his earlier work, yeah, probably. But I didn't get it.

I really enjoyed it.

Although that was more my experience of the Wizard of Oz when I was like 6 or so, it's all Technicolor and cute until the flying monkeys came along to scare the heck out of me.

What bothers me about Marcus is he is trying to get the Dane Cook look, with the shaggy hair and the stubble.

Come in a stranger,leave a little stranger

Oh this means I can start watching this week. I have become so bored with the audition phase. It goes on for weeks. But why eliminate them in pairs once the final bunch is picked? Seems like they are more in love with their audition shows than the show they are auditioning for. Since I didn't pay attention to the auditions I can look at the final group with an open mind. All their material will be new to me.