SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV
On "Last Comic Standing" former local comedian Sabrina Matthews did not make it to the next round, despite being one of the funnier comedians of the night. And that's really all there is to say about that. Which brings us to a note to the "Last Comic" producers: The single best moment during any season of "Last Comic Standing" was when all the comics were living together, and one day they convinced Dat Phan they were going to play hide-and-seek. So Dat Phan hid, and the rest of his housemates just went about their day, and didn't actually look for him. He hid for, who knows--an hour or something--finally came out of hiding, saw all his housemates sitting around the living room, and proclaimed, "I am never playing hide-and-seek with you guys again!"
You notice something about that little anecdote, "Last Comic" producers? The best part of your whole stupid show was forcing those comedians to live together, and filming the mayhem. You've taken that away from us. Now all we seem to be getting is two minute performances from the comedians as they are whittled down each week. And you know what that is? It's boring. It's "On the Lot" boring.
Speaking of "On the Lot," Oakland filmmaker Mateen Kemet, submitted another film to the judges, which last week included filmmaker Antoine Fuqua. The theme was "action," and while the movie did include a chase sequence, its attempts to do a twist on a familiar storyline wasn't all that original. You can watch the movie here. Tune in tonight to see if he gets to continue to pretend he's actually living "on the lot" or not.
Since Shauna from Santa Cruz was voted off of "So You Think You Can Dance" last week, we're just going to switch our allegiance to Dominic, who is from Sacramento. Close enough. Not that there's anything to report this week--he remains in the competition, while continuing to disturb us with his resemblance to John Leguizamo.
It's a bad sign when you start to hope that a local gets voted off a show even though she's not unpleasant or an asshole. That's how we feel every week when we turn on "Pirate Master." While we totally hate the show, we have an unhealthy need to see shows to their bitter end once we've watched three or four episodes. (We just need to learn to stop watching after a stinky pilot episode is all.) So, Nessa kissed her Joe Beau good-bye last episode, only to see him miraculously reappear this week as a part of a lame bit where all the cast adrift pirates "returned from the dead." How's she supposed to pine over the dude when he's only been gone for, like, 45 minutes? The treasure hunt pitted the "Ghost Pirates" against the living crew. If the Ghosts won, they'd be able to choose who amongst the living would get the three black spots.
Alas, the Ghosts demonstrated just why they had been cast adrift in the first place as they lost a key--thanks to John, that scientist/exotic dancer who was cast adrift on the first episode--and never even got near the treasure. They then were told to disappear, like the ghosts they are. Back on board, the crew started to mumble about mutiny, wanting to get rid of Captain Fake Accent. Meanwhile, Nessa had the pardon and had to sell it to the highest bidder, meaning she would be vulnerable if she got black spotted. But she wasn't black spotted, and thus wasn't cast adrift. No one had to the balls to mutiny, and Jupiter was put out to sea.