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Patton Oswalt writes:

Help a great show get on the air!

The Sci Fi Network is going to air THE AMAZING SCREW-ON HEAD on July 27th. It’s an animated pilot based on the genius, one issue comic by Mike Mignola. It features the voices of Paul Giamatti, David Hyde Pierce, Molly Shannon, and me.
Bryan Fuller broke his ass to bring it to life, and he stayed super-faithful to the vision of the comic.
It’s about a robot superhero who fights zombies for President Abraham Lincoln.
But they’re doing an early preview of SCREW-ON HEAD at www.scifi.com/amazingscrewonhead/ on July 13th. Go there, watch the pilot, and vote for it to become a series.
I had a lot of fun doing the pilot, and Bryan’s told me more of the stories he has planned. They’re really cool. I want to do them. Paul wants to do them. So do David and Molly. You can help it happen.
Check out AMAZING SCREW-ON HEAD at www.scifi.com/amazingscrewonhead/ and vote!
Thanks.

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Last Comic Standing, Season IV: The Quest For A Sitcom Star premiered last night and the the reviews are trickling in:
From the wonderful SHECKYmagazine:
Why this desire to promote this thing as a yahoo amateur contest? We’re not clear as to why this can’t be a clash of seasoned professionals who are all good at what they do. Instead of a dicey sideshow where a part-time student might take all the marbles. Have they not learned their lesson from Season I’s Mr. Phan?!
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From TVsquad:
What struck me about the audition phase this year is how they decided to not show as many bad comedians as they had in the past, instead concentrating on maybe a half-dozen good comedians who happened to have nice back stories to tell.
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From the Boston Herald:
“None of them are open-mikers. They’ve all done it for four or five years, going through the comedy-club circuit all over America. But no one in the final five is a household name by any means. But they’re really, really funny.”
One could ask, if they’re so funny, why aren’t they already successful? Clark doesn’t have an answer. “For some reason, a lot of these comics get passed over,” he said. “I think it’s the luck of the draw sometimes.”
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From the Gannett news service:
If this show works so well, why did it disappear for 20 months from NBC’s ratings-challenged, fourth-place lineup?
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From “Canada Anne”:
I received an entire eight seconds on the Last Comic Standing show last night. The funny part is that they “bleeped” out two of my words: “bitches and ass”. I didn’t know those were expletives and “bleep-able”words! I thought NBC has come further then that..
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The Chicago Tribune has an interesting write-up about Conan O’Brien’s time in Chicago in the late 80’s (with Bob Odenkirk, Robert Smigel & them) in anticipation of his upcoming week of shows there:

There were a lot of funny people around that summer — O’Brien had landed in the middle of a sketch-comedy mafia that would go on to infiltrate every corner of television over the next two decades — but even then, the gawky Harvard grad stood out.

Read the entire column at the Chicago Tribune.
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