Last Comic Standing 3: What to Expect? The Official Word

As many readers know by know from our report last week, NBC has been so happy with the ratings – not to mention an Emmy nomination – for LCS2, that they have asked for a new season of the series to be apart of their fall schedule.

Sounds great, but it means that a third season of the show is set to premiere on August 31, only two and a half weeks after the end of the current season. This naturally brings up the question for fans: How the heck are they going to put together a new season for the show in that short of time when it had taken five months or more to put together each of the previous two? While there has been some speculation on the internet about this, there had been no official word about what to expect.

Until now.

We were able to contact Jay Mohr this weekend and he gave us the okay to announce some of the plans being worked on for the next season. Keep in mind that the show is still in development at this time, so some aspects of the show could still change in the following weeks. Nevertheless, here is what we can tell you right now:

One thing that is a solid about the show is that the object of the “contest” will be, as Jay told us, “last year’s house versus this year’s house.” This means that the comics of the first season will be competing against the comics of the second season in a series of comedy head-to-heads each episode. This will no doubt make fans of some of the many comics that filled up the house in LCS1 happy, but also give the fans of LCS2 a chance to see their favorites be given a second chance as well.

That’s a big change in the format of the show, but that’s not the most exciting transformation to occur on the program. One of the comments that fans have had about both LCS1 & LCS2 is feeling a bit frustrated in not being able to vote for the comics until the end of the series when only a few remain – especially when a favorite got voted out before reaching the final head-to-head. That will not be a problem LCS3, however, as Jay sprung the news that “America votes every episode” for their favorites.

And what about immunity challenges? There won’t be any this time. Nor will there be a lot of time spent showing the comics living together. Why? Because it’ll be just pure stand-up – no challenges, no schemes, no backbiting. No place to hide this time; everyone is going up for the head-to-heads in the weeks to come, and the home-viewers will get the final say each week on who they believe is the funniest comics of each episode, and ultimate who of the many comics from both season they believe is the LAST COMIC STANDING.

Sounds like it’s going to be a thrilling match-up to watch and I’m sure fans of either and/or both series are going to look forward to it. Stay tuned to LCS2 to see who might make it to LCS3, and keep checking back to us here at RNO for more details about the new show as they come available!

Special thanks to Jay Mohr for his help here!

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