Last Comic Standing IV premiers

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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