Where to begin? Some of you may be familiar with Last Comic Standing, the NBC show where various comics compete for audience votes, until only one remains. Then he gets some money and universal acclaim as the Last Comic Standing…at least until the next season starts. For season 3, the format was a competition between the ten comics from seasons 1 and 2. (Actually, Bonnie McFarlane, one of my favorites from season 2, declined to show up for season 3, since she was the first comic kicked off of season 2 (with something like 10% of the votes), and she was the first comic kicked off when they brought back some previous comics as audience favorites.) The format of season 3 was almost none of the reality stuff, and all stand-up competition between the various comics.
Now to the personal part of the story. The season finale is airing next week on October 12th. The weekly shows are taped that day, and air the same night. Being the forward-thinking woman that she is, my wife looked online and found that we could get tickets to the final episode in L.A.! So we signed up, got tickets for us and a few of our friends, booked plane tickets, and were planning to make a quick 24-hour turnaround trip to L.A. to see the finale.
Then the bottom fell out. Here is the email I received from the organization handling the tickets:
Sadly, NBC’s The Last Comic Standing has been cancelled and the October 12th taping has been cancelled as well. We are extremely sorry for this inconvenience and would like to offer you VIP tickets to another taping. ALF’s Hit Talk Show will be taping six episodes on October 8th–11th with co-host Ed McMahon and a slew of celebrity guests including Doris Roberts, Tom Green, Kevin Nealan, Lance Burton and more!!Disaster! All our plans gang aft agley. I will acknowledge that the show might have had flagging ratings, but cancelling just the finale episode? It seems completely illogical. Oh, but as a consolation, we get free passes to Alf’s new talk show! I can’t believe we’d be so lucky! I figured all the tickets would be sold out long before now!
So in the end, we’re left with insult added to injury. If anyone is in the Southern California area, they also have tickets to The Late Late Show available, so if you want to go, I can give you our VIP passes and you’ll go straight to the front of the line. Let me know if you’re interested. But meanwhile, we’ll just be sitting at home, miserable.
