Comedy competition sucks. I was recently just in the Finals of LA's funniest comedian contest and now I want to punch someone in the face! Dont get me wrong, there is nothing wrong or corrupted about the contest, in fact it was a great networking tool and good stage time. It is started by comedian Dante and he puts together some very cool judges that can actually take you places. Good deal there. But here's my story.
So there are 11 contestants in the finals. It was a packed house at the Lovitz club in Burbank. We're each only given 4 minutes of time. So there I go, jumboed up some of my most solid materials into a 4 minute set. I rocked the house sooooooo hard (sorry if I sound blowhardy) the audience loved me! But here's the catch, the audience isn't the one putting in the votes, the 20 judges have 100% of the votes. At the end of the night, it came to annoucing the top 3 finishers. They announced #3 and #2, and here I was standing there preparing my acceptance speech....then the host announced "And in first place..." As several of the audience members yelled out "Jimmy Ouyang!" The host continued "the winner of the LA's funniest comedian contest! D.C. Ervin!" I almost pulled a Kanye West on that stage. Not to take anythiing away from the super funny DC, but WTF!!! I should have won that contest by a mile!! I destroyed the house!!! In my very confused state I talked to one of the judges and he candidly told me "dude you were funny, but you only did racial material, that's too easy...." and I also followed another asian comedian, so I guess that was some kind of Asian Tsunami overload for the judges. I respect the judges very much but if you were there, you would be shocked that I didnt even place!
I just needed to vent. I know I should be glad I made it to the finals, but that's like the Lakers making the playoffs, odds are pretty good, that's all Im saying. There is only one person who is not pissed off at a contest. As Nelly said in his song, "2 is not a winner and 3 nobody remembers." Contests can suck my balls.
PS: Video of my set from the contest will be posted soon.
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