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August 27, 10:08 AM

IT'S NOT OVER

When I was a child, my grandfather would ask me, "how's that broken arm healing?" - a reference to the fact that I had not written him a letter in a while. This was back in the days when letters were written on paper with pens, and we all wore wind up watches.

That's a little bit how it's been with that blog. Back then my excuse was that I had been busy playing conkers and cricket and taking part in other British pastimes that were popular in the late 20th Century. My excuse here is that we have been making this show more or less in real time - having complete shows with challenges and reality and stand up comedy turned around in about ten days from shooting to finished edit. I don't recommend it. Our editors are all buying Mercedes and second homes with their overtime money, and none of us has had much time for blogging. So apologies for that.

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July 19, 05:27 PM

That's It?!

Last year, my partner and I posted our first blog about the first semi-final of season 4 and were deluged with hate mail and death threats about our choices. This year? 12 posts – many of them complimentary. So we’re off to a better start, or perhaps a more realistic conclusion is that no one, other than the comics on the show, is bothering to read the blog. I hope business picks up.

Apparently one bone of contention – from about three posters – is Debra DiGiovanni or “the cat lady” as she has been dubbed.

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July 12, 11:51 AM

You Asked For It...

First of all, sorry about misquoting Men at Work in the last blog. I can’t believe that the team of NBC.com fact checkers missed that. I kind of like my version better, but Colin Hay is a genius and deserves better than to have his lyrics mangled. I stand by the vegemite sandwich comment.

So I took a couple of weeks off from writing the blog (and we were not on last week – so strictly speaking it was one week). I come back to find that people have started to post in greater numbers, and now that we are 5 hours into the show there are a lot of comments and questions, as well as the simmering vat of angry musings I came to so enjoy last year. So here are some answers to some of your burning questions and concerns.

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June 22, 02:04 PM

WHERE WOMEN BRAWL AND MEN CHUNDER

So this week Last Comic’s global search took us to LA and Sydney, Australia (hence the headline – I could also have thrown in “she just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich” instead of the brawling and chundering thing). More on Australia later.

So after last weeks blog I braced myself for an onslaught of bitter criticism… and then this was the kind of response you gave us:

“I really do think that the show has done a great job of picking very talented comics.”

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June 14, 10:22 AM

We're Back!

Last Comic Standing is back! (As we like to say in our cold opens). Last year in these pages, many people chose to vent and fume about everything they disliked about the show. You’ll be glad to know that we’ve made some changes.

We have a new host. Are there any other reality shows out there that have had 3 different hosts in the space of 5 seasons? I think that may be a record. Bill Bellamy is the best host this show has ever had. He’s funny, energetic, and generous without being soft, a really good guy and a great host. Some of the previous incumbents have not ticked all those boxes.

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June 13, 08:24 PM

Thanks and Goodnight!

I wanna thank everyone for supporting us tonight. Watch every Wednesday night, it's only going to get better. We really look forward to making you guys laugh all summer long!

June 13, 08:23 PM

Cousin Skeeter on DVD

When you can get Cousin Skeeter you'll probably be able to get the Fastlane DVD.