Jim Tavare vs. Iliza Shlesinger: It's nice that they placed an accent over the "e" in Tavare on the ring girl's sign, but too bad no one can agree on how to pronounce it. Sometimes it's Ta-VAR-aye, sometimes TAV-ah-ray. Either way, I was surprised to see that he had a giant tattoo on his arm, one that looked like the kind of crest you see stitched on a polo shirt.
Papa CJ vs. Paul Foot: Color me surprised that CJ manages to do a Hindu joke.
Esther Ku vs. Sean Cullen: Sean lowers the boom when he said that Esther's mom is so old, when she was in the shower, she raised her breast and a Pilgrim fell out. Jamie Kennedy's face melted.
The four winners were Adam Hunter, Jim Tavare, Sean Cullen, and God's Pottery. The latter two, I'm shocked to say, were by far the best.
We move on to round two, where they have to snap each other with lines that begin "You're such a hack..."
In his interview, Adam Hunter says that he's not afraid to take on God's Pottery, because they're just characters. He said it's like going up against Borat. I thought A-Hunt was the better comic but somehow GP won. Craptastic.
Sean Cullen vs. Jim Tavare: Sean throws a lot of words around--trying to eat up time, I guess--but they don't make any sense. Jim throws down a "You're such a hack, you make Carrot Top seem fresh", a line so brilliant I'd like to embroider it on a pillow. Or on my back. Obviously, Jim wins.
For the final matchup, J-Tav vs. G-Pot, it's the "Anything Goes" round. One of the pieces of pottery tells Jim he's "dumber than a ding dong in a ho ho factory" while the other taunts him with the Revolutionary War. Jim responds by insulting their lineage and their intelligence, all while using that delightful accent. He also seems to have a devil tattooed on his other arm. Symbolism is neat.
Jim is the winner which means that no matter what he cannot be eliminated this week. Everyone is loaded back onto the over-capacity bus and taken to a graveyard, because nothing is more chuckleworthy than sitting on concrete slabs atop decomposing corpses. Bill tells them that they're in the cemetery because "either you kill or you die onstage" so he thought it would be a great idea to do the voting there. It may not seem as swell to the family of the late Mrs. Ida Grogan whose grave they're all dancing on.
They're directed to the mausoleum and told to vote for someone they'd like to vote off, someone they think they are funnier than. To their surprise--but not to anyone who has ever watched any reality show--the footage is then immediately shown to the group. Jim, Louis, Adam, Iliza, God's Pottery, and Marcus all vote Esther. Paul and Papa CJ both want to boot Iliza. Sean and Jeff call each other out, Ron shoots hates votes God's Pottery (of course), and finally, Esther casts her lot for Louis.
Since Esther got the most votes, she gets to choose the comics she'll face off against. Of the three performers in that show, two will be eliminated and the winner gets to stay at Casa de Comedy for another week, using a washing machine that works and eating dairy products that haven't expired. Esther selects God's Pottery and--BURN!--Iliza.
In their taped interviews, Esther calls Iliza "lame and judgemental" while Iliza just destroys Esther, finishing her by saying that "she thinks in purple hearts and rainbows and anime". Confidental to Iliza: I love you.
On to the head to head to head (and additional head for the other Pottery Guy) showdown. Esther takes the stage first, dressed like a violent collision between Get In Shape Girl and Suzy Wong. She repeats her opener from the semi-final set and then rolls out her usual Asian-flavored shtick. She talks about how Asian girls go out with everyone but Asian guys, references chopsticks, gets in a dig about Mexicans taking Americans' jobs (which got a roar from the LA crowd) but other than that one joke, the biggest ovation for her was when she walked off the stage.
God's Pottery is (are?) next. Half of the audience seems to dig it but the other half looks confused because obviously they thought they came to see comedians, not spend the evening at Vacation Bible School. They do get props for getting the majority of the crowd to repeatedly yell "I love Jesus more than anyone does!".
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Comments (1)
The three most annoying people were eliminated. It doesn't get better than that! (And, for a bonus, Eliza, we are giving you your own private room!)
Now, if she could just get rid of the Indian guy and the little Brit...
1 of 1 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on July 18, 2008 2:59 PM