The show is heavily edited. There is a disclaimer at the end.
For all we know, they could be showing the worst minute from Dat’s act, pieced together in a weird, unfunny way. They could have given us Dave’s best minute to compare it to, just to influence our expectations. Judging from the audience reaction, Dat got them rolling in the aisles, just like Ralphie did last week.
I don’t think NBC went out of their way to find an unusual audience of stupid or weird or crazy people. I would presume it is a normal audience of Americans looking to be entertained by a live standup act. All reality shows are influenced by the editing.
I, for one, was entertained by the show. The insecure clique got to whoop it up and pick on Dat all they liked. They ganged up on him and let’s be honest, they were making fun of him for being different.
Dat took it in stride, he took all the insults graciously and without malice, and he even tried to laugh with them. Instead of trying to accept Dat, the others chose to dislike Dat even more and Dat rose above it all.
I’m glad that Dat got his revenge the proper way… by beating Dave’s punk ass in competition and being humble and respectful all the way. What a class act.
I completely agree that they have ignored the more original, and better, comic two weeks in a row. Ralphie is very cliched, and Rob Cantrell’s stuff was completely original and very funny. I think the crowd must be a bunch of college kids who only think that making fun of stereotypes is funny.
It will probably come down to Tess and Ralphie, and we will have to see which one can be fatter and blacker than the other.
Precisely what I think has happened is that rather then having an audience which has seen lots of stand-up and is is fully acquainted with the various varieties of routines what they’ve gotten is a group of people who have been drawn by the allure of being in an audience of a national TV show. People who look forward to trying to see themselves on TV. People for whom comedy comes second in their reason for being their.
Although I totally agree about the editing. Anybody know how long each routine is?
Wow, NBC gives a pretty complete rundown of the show.
What you fail to factor in is the person put on the line can only choose from their challengers, not the whole group. By your strategy, you’d have to anticipate who Dat will actually vote for, which is nigh impossible to do with any accuracy. Imagine if you vote Rich on the line, yet Dat hits up Cory. Oh hell, you just screwed over one of your own.