Last Comic Standing season 4
On May 30, 2006, competitive
Auditions
In the opening rounds, Buck Star once again showed up to audition in each city only to be turned down repeatedly. As in season two, he was finally allowed to perform in the last city, where he didn't impress the audience and was cut.
Numerous established comedians auditioned for Last Comic Standing this season. They included:
- Doug Benson (Best Week Ever)
- Marc Price (Family Ties)
- Bob & Tom Show)
- Jimmy Pardo
- Video On Trial and Comedy Network's Buzz)
- Kyle Cease (Comedy Central Presents)
- Tig Notaro (Comedy Central Presents)
Some of the finalists have also appeared elsewhere:
- Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias (All That, Comedy Central Presents various stand-up specials)
- Battlebots, I've Got a Secret, Extreme Dodgeball)
- Josh Blue (Mind of Mencia, America's Got Talent)
Last Comic Downloaded
In a new
Week | Winning Comic | Catch phrase |
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Week 1 | Kaitlin Colombo | Ever wonder what kind of comedy a gay man's 19-year-old daughter would perform? |
Week 2 | Willy Parsons | Don't worry, he's only been in jail once. |
Week 3 | Nikki Payne | Duct-taping her problems away. |
Week 4 | Josh Wolf | Your guide to dispelling marital myths. |
Week 5 | Theo Von | His father was 70 when he was born. |
Season 4 Results
Comics | Head-to-head | Public elimination | |||||
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Ep 5 | Ep 6 | Ep 7 | Ep 8 | Ep 9 | Ep 10 | Ep 11 | |
Josh Blue | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN | LCS |
Ty Barnett | IN | IN | WIN | IN | IN | IN | OUT |
Chris Porter | SAFE | WIN | IN | IN | LOW | OUT | |
Michele Balan | WIN | WIN | IN | LOW | OUT | ||
Roz | SAFE | IN | IN | OUT | |||
Rebecca Corry | IN | SAFE | OUT | ||||
Kristin Key | IN | IN | OUT | ||||
Gabriel Iglesias | IN | IN | DQ | ||||
Bil Dwyer | IN | OUT | |||||
Joey Gay | IN | OUT | |||||
April Macie | OUT | ||||||
Stella Stopler | OUT |
- LCS means the comic was the last comic standing
- SAFE means the comic won the immunitychallenge
- WIN means the comic participated and won the head-to-head showdown
- LOW means the comic was shown as receiving the second-lowest viewer vote total
- OUT means the comic lost in the head-to-head showdown or by viewer voting and was eliminated
- DQ means the comic was disqualified for breaking the show's rules
Episode guide
Episodes 1-4
Episodes 1-4 consisted of the early auditions and the selection of the finalists.
Episode 5
The contestants moved into the Queen Mary Hotel where they would stay for the remainder of the competition.
Immunity challenge: Heckling
The contestants were paired up. One performed on stage while the other sat in the audience heckling them about their jokes. They then switched roles. The best heckler and the best performer would be rewarded with immunity. Contestant Joey Gay didn't heckle fellow comic April Macie at all, saying it was common courtesy. The winner for performing was Chris Porter, and the winner for heckling was Roz.
The pairs for this challenge were:
- Chris Porter and Josh Blue
- Kristin Key and Michele Balan
- Bil Dwyer and Gabriel Iglesias
- Ty Barnett and Stella Stopler
- Rebecca Corry and Roz
- Joey Gay and April Macie
Head to Head
Stella and Michele tied in vote count. They were allowed to discuss whom they should face in the head to head. They chose April Macie. After the performances, Michele Balan received 83% of the vote, eliminating Stella and April from the competition.
Episode 6
Immunity challenge: Magazine topic
The comics were awakened at 3 a.m. to drive in their minibus to
Head to Head
This episode's head to head voting was the first four-way tie on Last Comic Standing. The tie was between Joey Gay, Michele Balan, Bil Dwyer, and Chris Porter. Each of them was forced to perform after receiving two votes (one of Porter's votes was from Gabriel Iglesias, whose strategy is to pick names out of a hat). Kristin Key and Iglesias received one vote each.
Because there were four comedians in the head to head, two would go home and two would stay. After the four comedians performed and the audience voted for their favorite, it was revealed that Bil Dwyer got the lowest percentage of the votes. Chris Porter won the Capital One Audience Pick, with the highest percentage of the votes. Joey Gay was also eliminated, and Michele Balan survived her second head to head in a row to stay in the competition.
Episode 7
Challenge: Roast
The contestants each got to vote on which comic to roast at the Friars Club of Beverly Hills. Gabriel Iglesias received the most votes. The judges at the roast were Gilbert Gottfried, Phyllis Diller, and the winner of Last Comic Standing Season 3, Alonzo Bodden. At the roast, Kristen Key was arguably the worst, with her jokes about Gabriel getting complete silence. Chris Porter won the challenge, but did not receive immunity because that would have automatically put him into the final five. He instead was rewarded with a one-year membership to the Friars of Beverly Hills.
Post-challenge drama
After the challenge, a producer caught
Head to Head
Rebecca Corry, Ty Barnett, and Kristen Key were chosen to compete in the head to head after having each received two votes. After their performances in the Last Comic Theatre, it was revealed that Corry received the fewest votes and would be eliminated from the competition. Key received the second-fewest votes and was also eliminated. With 69 percent of the votes, Barnett became the final person in the final five comics along with remaining comedians Josh Blue, Roz, Chris Porter, and Michele Balan.
Episode 8
The final five performed in front of a live audience for five minutes each. After all five had performed, the phone lines opened to let home viewers vote for their favorite comic. The one with the fewest votes would be eliminated. Each comic had a short bio before their performance. After the phone lines opened, the current lowest two vote-getters, Roz and Josh Blue, were displayed on the screen, albeit to only half of the audience.
Episode 9
Gary Gulman from season two performed. Michele Balan and Roz were announced as the bottom two from last week, then Roz was eliminated. The remaining contestants performed another stand-up routine for five minutes. After the phone lines opened, Anthony Clark explained that on the previous week's show, there were some problems that resulted in half the country not seeing who were the bottom two. There were no technical difficulties this time, as the screen showed that Michele Balan and Chris Porter were in the bottom two so far.
Episode 10
Michele received the fewest votes and was subsequently the first of the final four to leave the competition.
Episode 11
Josh Wolf and Theo Von performed their acts in trying to become the "Last Comic Downloaded." Next, Paul Rodriguez made a guest performance. Afterward, Chris Porter was eliminated from the competition as he received the fewest votes. Josh and Ty performed their acts in anticipation of the following week's final episode.
Episode 12
Theo Von won the majority of votes to become the "Last Comic Downloaded." Previous Last Comic Standing winners Dat Phan, John Heffron, and Alonzo Bodden performed next. The host of the past seasons of Last Comic Standing, Jay Mohr, also made an appearance. The remaining finalists, Ty Barnett and Josh Blue, performed their acts for the audience one last time, and at the end of the show Josh Blue was declared the winner of Last Comic Standing season 4.
References
- ^ Opie With Jim Norton 7-24-2014 Guests:Tom Papa, Gabriel Iglesias, Chris D'elia, Kurt Metzger PART1. YouTube. Archived from the original on December 11, 2021.