# Belated pit for the first season of Last Comic Standing **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 25, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belated-pit-for-the-first-season-of-last-comic-standing/544501 "2010-06-25T16:30:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belated-pit-for-the-first-season-of-last-comic-standing/544501/41 "2010-06-29T12:42:29Z")
Has the impression of his mother gotten any funnier? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belated-pit-for-the-first-season-of-last-comic-standing/544501/42 "2010-06-29T16:35:35Z")
Rich Vos was a complete asshole on that show. To me it was quite ironic that he was lording it over and trying to school everyone else on how to live a comic’s life, because I’ve never seen him actually being funny, especially on Colin Quinn’s trainwreck of a show. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belated-pit-for-the-first-season-of-last-comic-standing/544501/43 "2010-06-29T16:38:03Z")
> [@Crawlspace](#): > > You seriously misunderstood the hate for Dat Phan. The older comics disliked Dat for a number of reasons, none of which had to do with him being new. They got along with Rob Cantrell just fine and I believe he was even newer to comedy than Dat. But they disliked Dat because: And those were pretty much bullshit reasons. > [@](#): > > He also just didn’t seem to get it. He at least once said, “I don’t have to prove I’m funny to anyone.” Mordal just stared at him blankly and said, “Your in a fucking comedy competition.” It was Mordal that didn’t get it. In a comedy competition, what counts is pleasing the _audience_, not your fellow comedians. ---
**Author:** ![Crawlspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Crawlspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crawlspace)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belated-pit-for-the-first-season-of-last-comic-standing/544501/44 "2010-06-29T17:17:50Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > If Vos and the rest of those bitter donkey fuckers can disrespect a guy because he doesn’t like comedy for comedy’s sake, then I can disrespect them for acting like shit-eating pus bags at a guy who obviously worked hard to get to where he was at. > [@acsenray](#): > > And those were pretty much bullshit reasons. Suit yourselves, but Dat made himself a target with his OCD tendencies. It’s not their fault he wasn’t talented enough to return the fire and was too much of a big gay baby to have a sense of humor about himself. > [@acsenray](#): > > It was Mordal that didn’t get it. In a comedy competition, what counts is pleasing the audience, not your fellow comedians. ## Wrong. For a comedian on a reality TV show what counts is getting air time. Mordal and Vos understood this and got time by ripping on each other and the other comics, playing up a faux homoerotic relationship, and going on a rat hunt. Dat did it by practicing his comedy routine (complete with laugh breaks and audience interaction) alone on a tennis court. Most people are laughing with the former and at the latter. Best joke from last night: the guy describing how he wound up sitting at the back of the traffic jam he had created. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/belated-pit-for-the-first-season-of-last-comic-standing/544501.md?page=2)