You can fool all of the people some of the time. Somehow, miraculously, Rebecca Corry fooled everyone involved with “Last Comic Standing.” But she couldn’t fool anyone when a real audience determined her fate. Hell, she certainly didn’t fool me at any point in the audition process. This woman is not a comedian, she is an imposter, and she thankfully went home last night.
Okay, will someone help me with the last step off my soapbox? Thanks.
With 8 contestants left, host Anthony Clark announced at the start of the show that there would be no immunity this time. That meant that douchebags like Adam Carolla couldn’t determine whether or not Rebecca Corry would hang around.
The event this time was a roasting at the Friar’s Club, and the comics all had to pick one person from among them that they wanted to roast. That turned out to be Gilbert Iglesias….the large Mexican dude who was an easy target and would no doubt have fun getting roasted. That was definitely the case, but during the event you could tell some of these comics are in a different class than some of the others. For instance, Chris Porter is clearly a favorite here and Michele Balan gained a ton of respect in recent weeks and last night. But Kristin Key was not funny at all, and Rebecca was, well, Rebecca.
Guest host Alonzo Boden, a former LCS champ, even jabbed at her: “Rebecca, you’re beautiful. And as a comic, you’re, well, beautiful.” Chris Porter won the event, and rightly so, and he is so funny he doesn’t even need immunity.
Then Gabriel wound up breaking show rules when he was caught communicating with his girlfriend via Blackberry. No no no, senor…… and adios amigo.
So now it was down to 7 and the three that competed at the end of the show were Rebecca, Kristin and Ty Barnett.
Rebecca went first and did her stomping, belching, snorting, jokeless routine. Then Kristin went…she was relatively funny, but still not a slam dunk to be the winner. Ty was last, and he was definitely funnier than Rebecca and Kristin. With the studio audience voting one final time before all of America takes over the voting next week, they voted Ty the winner and Rebecca and Kristin went home.
This all proves one thing. We all know what is funny, and don’t need old washed up comics or radio hosts telling us what they think we should think is funny.
So now it’s down to the final five: Michele, Chris, Ty, Josh Blue and Roz……all worthy of being there, setting up a very exciting battle of finalists. And Rebecca will be voting from her couch like the rest of us. Till then, Vandalay is OUT.
