Interview · moment 18 of 20
Losing Last Comic Standing and the Heartbreak of Being Left Out
from Bert Kreischer · #137
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
3 minGuest
Bert recounts the devastation of losing on Last Comic Standing 2 in 2004, not making the finalist house, and being excluded from a celebratory lunch by friends, plus reflecting on how winning too early would have ruined him.
- 56:16Tim was kicked off Last Comic Standing while pregnant and asked Bonnie McFarland, Gary Goldman, and Todd Glass to join them for lunch, but they declined because they didn't want to celebrate victories in front of a loser.
- 56:55The comedians told Tim they wanted to talk about good things going on but couldn't do it in front of him.
- 57:12Barry Katz was in the hotel gift shop with contracts for Tim to sign for a Shorties appearance, which Katz called a nice consolation prize.
- 57:27When Tim felt down, Barry Katz tried to cheer him up by saying he was having a kid, which Tim felt didn't help because he considered himself a loser.
- 57:46Tim claims he wouldn't have had the material to back up a Last Comic Standing win anyway, with only twenty minutes of comedy.
- 57:57Had Tim won, he would have become another forgotten winner people can't remember, unlike Gary Goldman, John Efron, Josh Blue, Amy Schumer, and Doug Benson.
- 58:16One obscure Last Comic Standing winner now works at SeaWorld and teaches comedy, which Tim finds hilarious even if unintentionally.
- 58:40Another past winner had cancer and Tim thought he'd wish he had that guy's career instead.