So now you've seen L.A. It's the first city we held auditions in and I think Kathleen, ANT and I were just figuring it out as we went. It was fun as we got the hang of it. Oh yeah, this is a blog, I'm supposed to give inside stuff.
Iva La'Shawn was the first to fool us. She was funny during the day, then went totally blue that night. Sean Rouse was so dark and funny we had him doing jokes for us that we knew would never make TV. Dan, the guy with the rock and the stick... I thought he was bad until I saw some of the others. If I had known how weird some of those people were, I would have given him a second chance. I think we had some L.A. homeless people who saw a line and just figured there was food at the end of it.
On to Australia, the land of not funny. Well, that's not true: Fiona is hilarious, Gina was funny and I loved the guy who drew the inside-out cat. There were more train wrecks down there than you can imagine. I'll tell you the best things about Australian comics: I got to pet a dingo and feed a kangaroo.
I went postal on one guy, whom you didn't see, named Balsac (they seemed to like costumes and funny names). I actually called him an insult to the art of comedy. Now that's pretty serious considering how many bad comics we saw.
We may get better comics from Down Under next year if Kathleen can understand what the hell they are saying — or if I don't.
NBC's Last Comic Standing airs Wednesdays at 9 pm/ET.
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