One of the finer things is life is making fun of your friends. I’m always saying that I can’t be friends with someone unless they know how to make fun of me. Strange? Perhaps. However, it’s a sign of true friendship when you can say the worst things about someone yet make him or her laugh. Now that my Hallmark card moment of the week is over with, I’ll invite you all to relive this exciting and yes, for the first time ever, surprising (if you don’t read spoilers) episode of Last. Comic. Standing. And at this rate, I’m not sure there will be any of them left standing.
How else could we start the show but by greeting our two survivors from the last challenge, Michele and Chris! They are greeted by a round of applause and some of them even say that they won’t challenge Michele. She says she’s not unpacking.
We learn that the comics have access to the house, well, boat, phone. They obviously are under contract and can’t talk about the show or anything that’s going on. Ty is talking to his daughter in a very endearing moment and Gabriel has a girl in his life that he misses very much. Am I watching the right show?
Mime-a-licous Anthony Clark tells everyone that the challenge this week will be a roast and one of them will be the one who shall be roasted. They each have a box with their names on it and the comics will take turns to put a cigar in the box of the person they want to roast. As logic goes, the one with the most cigars will be roasted. Results are fast this time around and the lucky roastee will be Gabriel Iglesias
The comics are delighted because there’s one kind of joke that is sure to work with Gabe and it’s… jokes about people who wear ugly Hawaiian shirts! Actually, the comics completely miss the mark about this fine piece of comedy and opt for the obvious fat jokes. Disappointed, I am.
Our three celebrity judges at the LA Friar’s Club are, in order, Alonzo Bodden (if I’m not mistaken, he won the roast in the second season) Phyllis Diller and Gilbert Gottfried. I guess Mimanthony is hosting? No, he isn’t, it’s actually Jim Norton.
Josh is our lucky first roster and he uses his famous “how convincing” line, again. His best joke was about a Vietnamese family that Gabriel ate. Rebecca is the second comedian and she tries to convince the audience that she’s hilarious by adding “oh yeah, that was good” at the end of each joke. I HATE that! She gets on my nerves so much.
Ty makes a very special appearance and talks about Gabriel’s limited options as an athlete and Josh’s limited options as a sniper. Michele thinks Gabe would’ve preferred to be fried than roasted and Kristin… well, the editing shows us that she really, badly, sucked. Her jokes were not that bad, but nothing I’d show on TV in front of millions of people to convince them I’m funny. Roz talks about going to Mc D’s with Gabriel but I never understood it because they bleeped the ending. The audience was on the floor laughing, lucky them. Last but not least, our very own supah-star Chris Porter hits a grand slam, gets a touchdown, but my favourite of all, gets a hat trick. He says that Gabriel is the only comedian visible from space, and he also makes fun of Jim Norton. To keep the theme of Hallmark moments, he talks about his friendship with Gabe. Tissues please!!
Gabe gets revenge and talks about everyone, but my favourite was calling Ty a metrosexual. Didn’t see that one coming! Did you guys know that metrosexual is not accepted by my spellchecker? Funny stuff.
The judges have taken notes and are ready to deliver. Alonzo is up first and he says that Rebecca is pretty and as for being funny, she’s pretty. Ouch. The other two judges loved everyone. What a bloody waste of time. Oh, I forgot to say that Alonzo, season three winner and season two runner-up, said that Chris was the best roaster.
And yes indeed, Chris was chosen as the favourite of the night. He won a year pass to the Friar’s Club as well as a chance to be the opening act on a show with Louie Anderson. Go Chris go!
Nothing left to worry about except the head-to head right? Wrong! The comics are chillin’ and relaxin’ on the boat when we hear something very mysterious…a producer’s voice! “Gabe, what are you hiding”, the voice says. “Nothing” he replies. Actually, he had smuggled a Blackberry on the boat. You see, it is strictly forbidden to have any kind of cell phone device. Leaks are a producer’s worst enemy. The thing is, the show was already spoiled for a long time and now we might know why. He gives up the Blackberry and they are trying to decide what to do with him. However, we learn that he got up in the middle of the night to make a call somewhere on the boat to talk about jokes he made… during the roast! Busted! The producers have no choice but to kick him out of the show. It’s really sad that he couldn’t wait just a little bit longer to talk to whomever it was.
Life goes on for everyone, and it’s time for the Boiler room eliminations. Looks like Chris had no idea what happened with Gabriel because he shakes his head when Anthony informs them all of what happened. Anyway, they all go to vote and it goes as this;
- Rebecca votes for Ty… when the vote is revealed, Ty looks amusedly pissed off. Don’t try to understand.
- Ty votes for Kristin.
- Chris votes for Josh! Nooooo! You guys need to go to the finals!
- Roz votes for Rebecca. Right you are.
- Kristin votes for Rebecca. Wise choice.
- Josh thinks he’s funnier than Ty. Will we see him perform?
- Finally, Michele votes for Kristin.
Three people are going to perform tonight, and they are Ty Barnett, Rebecca Corry and self-proclaimed underdog Kristin Key.
Kristin is the first to perform and she starts off with “Everything is Bigger in Texas” and then points to her chest routine. Then, she has this rather long number about partying with college kids and being drunk, and it finishes with the line “fire in the hole.”
Rebecca is the second to go and she kicks and strangely walks her way around the stage. Her whole set was about WOW chips and what’s in them and why they are called that. Lame-o!
Ty, please save me from this! He uses his old slave joke (which is actually the only one we might’ve seen from him ever!!) and then does this quite funny bit about Superman being drunk. It was awkwardly cut too short because I’m sure there was more to it. *Shakes fist at producers* I saw the new Superman movie this weekend. It was actually very good. Not that it has to do with comedy. Or Ty. I just like to ramble on.
Well, two people have to go home, and one has to win. The one with the lowest number of votes is Rebecca. Go kick your way back home, you! With 69% of the votes the winner is Ty! Kristin goes home, obviously.
Our final five are Ty Barnett, Roz, Chris Porter, Josh Blue and Michele Balan. Quite interesting, actually. It’s nearly a no-brainer who will win at this point, but we never know.
Next week, you, the people, get to vote! Isn’t this exciting! I won’t be able to sleep until then! Now, where’s my cell phone…
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