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Sunday, June 27, 2004 » thought

Today I happened to catch a few minutes of Comedy Central's reality show, Last Comic Standing. It's pretty much like any Survivor-type show in that the contestants compete to stay on the show. Each show ends, appropriately, with two stand-up comedians performing in front of an audience who then votes one of them out. In this episode, over 90% of the audience voted in favor of one comic.

That got me thinking. While shows like Survivor and Fear Factor are mostly just series of outlandish games, is it really a good idea to go on a reality show where the game is what you want to do for your career? Now the only thing I'll think of if I ever see that comic again is, oh, she was the one who almost the entire audience didn't like.

Then again, it is just a reality TV show, on Comedy Central, on Saturday. Maybe no one will notice.