Hi everyone I am finally back in Denver after the crazy "Last Comic Standing" ride…All I can say is that my mind is blown by everything. Your support has been incredible and I wouldn’t have won this whole thing if it wasn’t for you. I thank you, I love you, and of course…your support cripples me! I can’t wait to meet all of you at a club or theatre near you….
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy has been cancelled. "Well, we haven’t been asked back for 2007," Queer Eye star Jai Rodriguez has said. "It’s only been three years, but it feels like so much more than that due to the overexposure. I started when I was 23. In that first year, I was on Oprah’s couch. I was on Ellen. People recognized me. JLo is a huge fan of ours." The reality show recently broke their own mold when they made over a transgendered man. "Maybe this is how we are going out with a bang," Rodriguez continued. "Everyone has new projects. I’m working on a TV show and a movie in the fall. We just had a tour of the Philippines. We are huge there. Like Michael Jackson in 1983."
Gabriel Iglesias has visited the Valley many times before. Now the comedian is going to stay. “I will soon be a resident — I just bought a house in Avondale!” he says. While he’s headlined at the Tempe Improv and other comedy clubs around the country for several years, more people than ever know Iglesias this summer because of his appearance on the NBC reality competition “Last Comic Standing.” Easily the most polished comedian among the final contestants, he was disqualified on the July 11 episode for using his Blackberry. “Everybody was doing something sneaky, and I just happened to be the one that got caught,” Iglesias says. “Leave it to the Mexican to get caught!”Not that he was overly disappointed to see his time on the show come to an end. “They put all these rules and regulations on you, and I’m not used to having people tell me what to do,” Iglesias says. “I had to ask to go to the bathroom! I really didn’t like that.” With himself out of the mix, Iglesias believes the winner will be one of two contestants. “It’s going to come down to Josh Blue and Chris Porter,” he says. “I was actually hanging out with Chris Porter last night. I play poker with him.” As an established comedian, Iglesias certainly wasn’t in awe of the prize — $50,000 and a half-hour special on Bravo — for which the upstart comics are still vying.“The only thing I had to gain was the title and a big ego,” Iglesias says. “Comedy Central is already giving me a one-hour special in February, and the money will come. I’m buying houses — the money will come!”He did, however, stand to lose something had he triumphed on the show: A little personal freedom, due to the contractual obligations that come with winning.“Obviously, being disqualified, you’re kind of released from those obligations,” he says slyly.
The One" is done. ABC has pulled the plug on the singing competish, barely one week after it bowed to disastrous Nielsen numbers. Skein’s July 18 premiere goes down as the lowest-rated adults 18-49 debut for a reality show (a 1.1 demo rating/3 share) in modern TV history.The Alphabet nonetheless aired three more episodes of "The One: Making a Superstar" (plus a repeat of the two-hour premiere) in the hope that ratings might improve. Instead, they declined even further — and Thursday morning, ABC execs decided they’d had enough.Cancellation, while expected after last week’s numbers, leaves ABC with a big scheduling hole to fill between now and mid-September, when "The One" was slated to wrap. There’s no word yet on what ABC will air in its place.
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