Is This Thing (Still) On? - 
by copygodd
Alright, let's be honest: how many of you even remembered Last Comic Standing was still on? I know, me neither! So you can imagine my surprise when I turned on the TiVo Thursday night and found a new episode waiting for me to recap. (And yes I know it's actually a Tuesday show, but since I'm also covering Rock Star: Supernova, and it's on at the same time as LCS here in the Mountain Time Zone, I don't get to watch LCS until the Thursday night rebroadcast on Bravo.) Of course, if my loyal readers (Hi Mom!) want to take up a collection to get me a dual-tuner TiVo, I certainly wouldn't stand in their way...
Anyway, when last we left the last comics standing, JoeyGay and Bil Dwyer had both been eliminated. This episode picks up with Chris and Michele returning victorious to the boat. Once again, the comics are surprised to see Michele come back. After three straight wins, you'd think they'd wise up and back off the old lady. You cannot stop the AARP. You can only hope to contain it.
Up next, in a none-too-subtle bit of foreshadowing, we get a nice little montage of the comedians on the phone. Turns out they're each allowed to make one call every other day, and that's it. This is supposed to keep secrets about the show from leaking out, and to prevent people on the outside from writing jokes for them. Chris says the phone rules are just like being in prison, which I hope for his sake is knowledge he's only getting from Prison Break or Reform School Girls, cuz then I'd start thinking of his goofy hair as more pedophile than lazy comic.
During the phone calls section, we learn that Gabe is in a new relationship with a woman who changed his life. In other words, he didn't have to pay her for sex. And Ty feels really guilty for missing his daughter's birthday. Not to worry, though, because he's only missing it for the chance to earn some money to some day put her through school, and he promises to never, ever miss her birthday again. Yeah, that'll be an easy promise to keep. Just to be safe, I think he should sock a little of the money away to pay for her therapy some day.
Later, Anthony brings everyone up on deck to explain this week's challenge, which is the Friar's Club Roast. Now, they just have to decide who's going to be the roasters, and who will be the roastee. To do that, each comic gets a cigar, which they have to put in the box with the name of the comic they want to roast. The person with the most cigars gets roasted. One last thing: there is no immunity up for grabs in this challenge, and it's the last challenge before the real finals begin. So there's going to be six comics in the finals? Dang. That seems a bit excessive. Chris is upset there's no immunity up for grabs, but he'll be happy with the respect and fear another victory will give him. And if that doesn't do it, he'll just start telling more prison stories.
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