Ha-ha!
OK, so Durst, Santorelli and Cotter were all eliminated in the semifinals of Last Comic Standing, while Norton and Sue Costello, who had a short-lived Fox sitcom about six years ago, advanced. But for the most part, it seemed like there was a lot of fresh if somewhat experienced blood that advanced to the finals. It did seem like the first group of semifinalists was full of very experienced folks, while many of the more interesting characters (but not necessarily talented or experienced) were in the second group. At this point, a lot of the folks run together, which may or may not be a good thing. Besides Durst and Santorelli, we're without the stripper, the Siamese Dream-era Billy Corgan lookalike and a really funny, young East Asian kid (although the Iranian kid who passed up med school for comedy did advance).

The credits mentioned it briefly, but I wonder how they really dealt with the fact that two of the judges, Colin Quinn and Rich Vos, know a few of the folks from Tough Crowd. We probably won't have as much of the familiarity of the contestants in the next round, but there are already rumblings that Brett Butler and Drew Carey were upset with the eventual choices to join the house and that their input was largely ignored.