LCS Slam Just For Laughs Insists Houston

Comic Sharon Houston popped up on The Special Thing Comedy Boards to explain her intentions behind the Fahrenheit: LCS2 video she made. She seems genuinely shocked that it’s gotten the attention it has. From her description, the screed wasn’t so much a rant against reality TV editing as much as an opportunity to tell a few jokes at LCS’s expense. Though this is comedian defense #1 when a joke of yours ends up having more backlash than you expected, she doesn’t seem to have any axes to grind. (The host of the video, cringehumor.net does. It revels in exposing flaws in LCS and particularly Dat Phan.) In fact, she’s quite willing again to admit her own faults.

She openly embraces producing another video where two version of her act appear, one the NBC-edited version and the other a full version (as I suggested here). She’s also refreshingly honest about why her bit did fail, citing “rookie” mistakes like: doing a long difficult-to-edit bit, using material even she was tired of and the perennial nerves. I agree with another point in her posts, if she hadn’t said anything negative herself, NBC probably wouldn’t have edited her bit to reflect that. It would have just glossed past without being a highlight (or lowlight) at all.