Dat Phan?? I really don’t think he was very funny.
In contrast to the American Idol voting results, I do trust NBC’s methods. They limited each phone # to three votes each, as well as each email address. Plus, the final results weren’t suspiciously “close.”
Anyway, I thought Corey was the funniest of the remaining five. I thought Ralphie was the funniest of the remaining two. What won it for Dat was that he got the most exposure on a stage over the course of the series.
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I think people voted for Dat because he seemed nice and likeable while some of the other comics may have been funnier but they came off as mean. People were voting on sentiment rather than just pure talent.
This is the biggest injustice since… no its the biggest injustice ever. Rich Vos and Ralphie were 20,000 times better then he ever was. This shows exactly why the American public shouldnt vote for President. 
On the episode when they did they voting, I didn’t find any of them especially funny. I would have voted for Rob Cantrell…but, eh. So, I voted for Dat, just based on his likability.
As for the show itself, what a waste of time. They could have fit it into a single hour easily. Seeing the auditions was nice, especially the rejections, but I’m sure we could have done without all the clips from previous episodes.
Also, I know comics don’t do a different set every night, but still, didn’t Dat Phan have enough material that he had to repeat the kung fu pissing bit? Especially when he knows he’s in front of an audience that has seen the previous episodes.
Allow me to laugh at Rich and Tess. I’d laugh at Dave except I really like his comedy.
Bwahahahahahaha!!! chuckles Teeheehee. Sigh. Does this mean we’ll get “Pick A Color”?
I’d have also voted for Rob.
Did you notice that when Jay Mohr went on Leno the clip he showed fromthe show was the one where Dat was tricked into hiding for x number of minutes. Hmmm, seems like that works in his favor for those internet voters.
They could still vote, right?
My theory: Dat seems to do what I consider to be broad comedy that appeals to young non-sophisticates. I see him as being just a step above slapstick. Anyway, chances are the younger viewers are more likely to have multiple email addresses (I’m basing this on my own kid), and 3 votes per address can add up fast. I expect the younger ones are more likely to spend all the time necessary to stuff the ballot box, as opposed to me who cast my 3 votes, then quit.
I didn’t like either Dat or Ralphie - both were way too broad to my liking. Dave’s my man! He even answered my email, so I now love him forever! 
Actually, last night, I dreamed that Dave and Rich came to my house, and they would up sleeping in the same bed as I cleaned house. I’m sure their bubble bath scene inspired that odd reverie.
I had a sinking feeling Dat Phan was going to win since the first episode. They gave him such a long, weepy piece about his family overcoming hardships and poor little Dat having to translate for his mother so that they could get on welfare. How utterly touching <turns head, pukes>.
The public voted for Dat because they pitied him. They saw how the other comics treated him and felt sorry for him, or they fell for the “I’m going to live my dream!” editing.
The guy isn’t funny! This is the worst reason why he won. Would you watch this guy’s show? The only way his show will be a hit is if they hire Dave Mordal (he should have won) to write it, or if they get a really funny actress to play his mother…BECAUSE THAT IS ALL OF HIS MATERIAL. That, and racism jokes. I’m sure that will go over REAL well with the censors.
Not only is the guy not funny, he’s WEIRD. All these notebooks and graphs, practicing to empty rooms (I guess that’s not so weird), and his overall personality just doesn’t click with me. Maybe some of his weirdness was due to editing, but he even came across as weird during the interviewing segment last night.
I wish anybody but him would have won. Well, not anybody. Sean was HORRIBLE (although the nervous tic he developed in his jaw during the voting was hilarious), Tere was pathetic (cha-cha-cha yourself), Tess (anybody else reminded of Mrs. Klump?) laughed at her own jokes too much, and Geoff was too generic. Rob, Rich, Dave, Cory, and Ralphie all had their own quirky charm.
But one-trick-pony DAT? shrugs, walks away disgusted.
I was still hoping Dave would win.
[sub]What?? Reality TV has pulled weirder things out of their butts.[/sub]
Actually, I voted for Rich.
I bet all the comics were eating crow when then found out that Dhat won! Afterall they all claimed to be funnier then him.
I didn’t think he was funny at all. I echo the sentiment that he was voted out of pity.
Dang, I was gonna start a thread called “At Last Last Last Comic Standing (spoilers)”, but there’s a thread already.
Apparently Dat has a lot of PHans who voted for him. He won it fair and square. No grousing will bring back Dave Mordal. If you want Dave, then invent a time machine so you can tell him not to vote against Dat. Otherwise, he made his bed and it’s back in Minnesota sleeping in it.
Dat didn’t cheat or bend any rules to get his votes. He did it in the most efficient ways available to him. He was smart enough to talk about how comedy is his dream, how he is down and out, and it worked for him. You can’t fault the guy for actually trying to win, can you?
Oh right, the voting must be skewed to favor Dat. Young people voted for him. He got the pity vote. :rolleyes: Why not play the race card and claim Asian people voted for him as all Asian people are into computers and have multiple email accounts, right?
I thought Dat was funny and endearing. I am glad he won and he talked about overcoming stereotypes. It’s not easy for an Asian person to break into the American entertainment business. There’s plenty of whites and blacks already. I hope we can learn to welcome an Asian entertainer.
p.s. Dat will probably have a sitcom that’s not related to the “Pick A Color” idea, maybe with Ralphie as his loud neighbor (“Dat Phan, I know you’ve been peeing in my bushes! I see the steam!”) about how weird Dat is. It will be funnier than Good Morning Miami and most of the other crappy sitcoms on TV today.
Yeah, right. He complains that people assume he does martial arts. But he DOES do martial arts! And if you want stereotypes, look no further than his impression of his mother, which seems to comprise 90 percent of his act. It seems to me that, if anything, he’s reinforcing sterotypes.
I could tell from the sob story about him in the first episode that the fix was in.
Dat Phan was funnier when he was Margaret Cho!
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Did anyone else notice how obviously disappointed Jay Mohr was about the outcome?
Word on Dat doing the “martial arts pissing” bit twice, though it was actually funny the first time.
But what was with Ralphie’s “you go girl” farewell speech? He sounded like Oprah frickin’ Winfrey up there.
Yeah, the first time I saw him do it, I actually laughed out loud-- one of the few times I did during the course of the series.
But seeing him do it again was awkward, yet painful.
Dat phan is not funny. None of them were very funny, but he was far from the funniest.
Further, please explain to me how, when half of Dat Phan's act involves talking in an (unfunny) Chinese voice to impersonate his stereotyped mom, he is somehow working to overcome stereotypes. Thats like claiming Tony Soprano is working to overcome Italian stereotypes. (And please don't hijack the thread...its just an example. I love the Sopranos and will watch faithfully until the end of the series)Just watched Dat Phan on the Tonight Show.
Total material not seen before: Zero.
I can’t imagine how he’s going to fill that special on Comedy Central.
IMO Dave Mordal was the funniest one on the show. I was stunned when Dat Phan got more votes in their head-to-head performance. Of the two last comics Ralphie was far funner than Dat. That said, Dat Phan was by far the most likable in the group. Some of the final ten were pretty mean-spirited.
I’d bet that in the future you’ll see more of Ralphie May than of Dat Phan. Come to think of it, you see more of Ralphie now.
Yeah, that “I’m just kidding, I speak English” joke was a REAL surprise, given that it had been broadcast innumerable times on the promos.