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Originally posted by paigowprincess
How does this show work exactly? Does the funniest comic win or the most strategically gifted in reality tv skills? Also, is Rob the guy with the cancer? And the standup I saw Dat do was funny- why does everyone hate him?
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I missed the first two weeks. The first half of the show, the comics are working for exemptions. Last week they had to bring their own audience (i.e. recruit random people on the street in Venice Beach) to a comedy show later that day. Apparently this is something very new comics have to do when they're starting out. Tess won that exemption. This week, they had to pitch a sit-com to a focus group, and the focus group got to decide which pitch was the best idea. Dat, the only comic who has admitted to wanting to be on a sit-com, won the exemption. In the second half of the show, the comics challenge (each comic states affirmatively that he or she knows that he or she is funnier than another comic) one another, and the person who gets the most challenges gets to go head to head with any one of the comics that challenged em. The challenger and challengee do their acts in front of a live audience, who votes to decide which one is funnier. The loser goes home.
Dat is funny on stage, and I agree with Ollie that he may prove tougher to oust than the coalition thinks, but he's an unfunny person on his off time. Last week he showed the group his journal, complete with graphics, that noted each routine that he's done over the years, how many laughs each joke got, and how long the audience laughed. He was completely serious.
