Wasn’t the Winner of the First Last Comic Standing promised a Sitcom? Where is it? I never saw anything on it.
Then again, I guess he would need more than just 60 minutes worth of material. :eek:
IIRC, he was just supposed to get a special on Comedy Central, which he got.
Of course that was a couple years ago.
By the way, I just want to mention that I picked both him and John Heffron to win their respective seasons and I was right both times.
Maybe I should be a comedy agent.
The “disapproving, traditional-values Asian mom” theme was once thought to be the future of comedy, until someone at the networks realized that Margaret Cho already existed.
I think there might have been the promise of a sitcom pilot – no guarantee that any network would buy it, of course.
I only recall the Comedy Central special being offered.
I think one of the challenges was to pitch a sitcom – maybe we’re thinking of that?
That was in the second season, but yes it was one of the challenges.
Tammy Pescatelli won mostly on the basis of her being hot.
Well at least the men in the focus group seemed to think so.
I didn’t see that episode, but let me take a wild guess; her sitcom was going to be about a “hot” Italian chick and her Italian family of swarthy, vaguely menacing but ultimately lovable goombahs. One character would be an old Uncle who’s always implied to have been mobbed up who’s misinterpret every innocuous thing Tammy says as being about organized crime.
How close am I?
Close, but IIRC, the family was involved with the mob. I just remember the guys in the test group saying things like, I dont care if it’s funny, if she’s in it, I’ll watch.
Not to mention when she was up against Todd Glass, she wore skin tight jeans and a low cut blouse and barely beat him. I figured it was the T&A factor at work.
As I recall, a “CBS Development Deal” was part of the prize package.
I also remember a show where Dat and the rest of the first season gang pitched a show to a test audience. Dat’s was called “Pick a Color” and was about a vietnamese family who owned a nail salon.