# Last Comic Standing Stink. . .

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-comic-standing-stink/233265>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 9, 2004, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-comic-standing-stink/233265 "2004-03-09T06:38:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-comic-standing-stink/233265/1 "2004-03-09T06:38:21Z")

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I haven’t seen this reported here yet, but for all those who wondered how Dat Phan managed to win the competition, Drew Carey, Brett Butler, and the guy from Yes, Dear have a revelation:

[http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=797&e=3&u=/eo/20040308/en\_tv\_eo/13654](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=797&e=3&u=/eo/20040308/en_tv_eo/13654)

Seems the whole thing is basically rigged and it really isn’t a contest with judges, but rather a producer run event.

I won’t be watching it this time out – partly because of this, and partly because of Dat.

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**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-comic-standing-stink/233265/2 "2004-03-09T12:05:09Z")

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Great, now Rich Vos will bitch about being robbed even **more** than he already does.

I tried to give the first one a shot but got quickly bored. Dat Phan seemed to have a sob story going for him and that was it. I was worried that one of those walrus tusk caps that Vos had in his mouth was going to come loose and break the camera. And Ralphie May, just what the world needed a “white boy hip hop” version of Louie Anderson.

But I am shocked, _shocked_ that TV producers would stoop to rigging a reality show/talent contest/game show. I mean no one in TV has ever fixed a contest before, right?

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**Author:** ![Gumbercules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gumbercules](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gumbercules)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-comic-standing-stink/233265/3 "2004-03-09T18:08:33Z")

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> [@ddgryphon](#):
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> I won’t be watching it this time out – partly because of this, and partly because of Dat.

Good one! 😃