Okay, I am boycotting Last Comic Standing since I think it’s rigged. I was reading on wikipedia that ever since the second season this where it all started.
I am sure it has been rigged since the beginning. There are a lot of reasons why I say this.
For one thing, it features people that are already “famous” comedians. I assumed that it was for amateurs, not celebrities.. but anyway.. people who already have a career such as Jimmy Norton or the guy who played Spence on King of Queens shouldn’t have been on there. They aren’t exactly famous, accept for the guy who played Spence, now he’s famous for playing a cartoon rodent on Splatatuouie or whatever that movie is called.
The main reason I say the show is rigged is because of the following, which is from wikipedia.org:
During season two, a panel of four celebrity judges was used to shrink the field of 40 semifinalists to ten finalists. The celebrity judges rated each of the semifinalists as they performed, and cast votes for the 10 top comedians. When the ten finalists were announced they did not seem to correspond with the judges’ votes. In this way it was unintentionally revealed that their votes did not necessarily determine the final contestants. Two of the celebrity judges, comedians Drew Carey and Brett Butler, responded in outrage and stormed away from the judge’s table after the finalists were announced.
The two were shown backstage arguing with producers. Carey and Butler did not understand how the finalists who were announced could be correct, since it did not match their votes. It was revealed that a panel of four producers were also casting votes in the process, assuring that unless all four celebrity judges cast the exact same ten votes, their voting power could be usurped by the four unanimously agreeing producer votes. If for some reason all four celebrity judges did cast the exact same votes, the worst the producers would be faced with is a tie.
Carey became further outraged upon learning this information. He was upset that he had been led to believe he had a vote in the outcome of the show. He reportedly responded, “All you wanted was our faces.”[citation needed] It was also revealed that some of the finalists who advanced were clients of the producers or directors of the show.
Allegedly, some of the competitors in opening rounds were plants hired by the producers to liven up the auditions on television[2]. For example, Buck Star, a comedian who followed talent executives Bob Read and Ross Mark to auditions across the country, is rumored to be a production assistant for NBC.
