By: Mary Cavaliere

 

Richard Belzer (Law & Order) and Steve Schirripa (The Sopranos) returned once again as talent scouts for the Las Vegas semi-finals.  Tonight the final sixteen performed at the Paris Las Vegas.  Below I’ve rated the comics with X’s again.  Well, they’re supposed to be smiley faces but you know how technology goes. The smiley faces don’t translate when copied into blog land so we must change them to X’s.  But just know they are meant to represent how much I smiled (or laughed) at each of the comics.

 

Marcus ~ Salt Lake City, UT = x x x x x

 

Dan Cummins ~ Riggins, ID = x

 

Iliza Shlesinger ~ Dallas, TX = x x x

 

Eddie Pepitone ~ Brooklyn, NY = x x x

 

Papa CJ ~ New Delhi, India = x x x x x

 

Stone & Stone ~ New York, NY = x

 

Mary Mack ~ Webster, WI = x

 

Bob Biggerstaff ~ Houston, TX = x

 

Louis Ramey ~ Atlanta, GA = x x x x

 

Sean Cullen ~ Toronto, Ontario = x x x

 

John Evans ~ Minneapolis, MN = x

 

Heath Hyche ~ Birmingham, AL = x

 

Esther Ku ~ Chicago, IL = x x x

 

Jackie Kashian ~ South Milwaukee, WI = x x

 

Pete Lee ~ Janesville, IL = x x

 

Jim Tavare ~ London, England = x x

 

I just don’t get the logic here.  This week seven comics made it through but there was definitely more talented comics on last week’s semi-finals yet they only put through five.  The only ones I really cared about making it through this week were Marcus, Papa CJ, and Louis Ramey.  They are my favorites so congratulations to all three of them that they made it through to the finals!

 

I am glad they finally put through a couple of women and I think Iliza Shlesinger and Esther Ku were definitely the best choices.  But honestly I’m still perturbed that Erin Jackson and Lioz Shem Tov did not make it into the finals as well.  If they put through seven last week and seven this week it would have been more FAIR don’t you think?  These ladies all rock!

 

I’m looking forward to the finals in Hollywood.  Good Luck everyone and Happy 4th of July!

 

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