2009 Comedy Central Stand-Up Showdown results

Today is the day for Comedy Central to broadcast a marathon of Comedy Central Presents half-hours (and in one comedian's case, an hourlong special) for the top 20 finishers in its annual Stand-Up Showdown vote. If you'd like to be surprised, stop reading now and come back later…because they have posted the full schedule online.

After the jump, today's Comedy Central schedule, as published online on the network's site:

Comedy Central schedule for Jan. 25, 2009 (all times Eastern)
#20 — 11:30 a.m., Kirk Fox (season 12)
#19 — Noon, Louis CK (season 5)
#18 — 12:30 p.m., Rich Vos (season 12)
#17 — 1 p.m., Bill Burr (season 7)
#16 — 1:30 p.m., Robert Kelly (season 12)
#15 — 2 p.m., Stephen Lynch (season 12)
#14 — 2:30 p.m., Mitch Hedberg (season 1)
#13 — 3 p.m., Jeremy Hotz (season 3)
#12 — 3:30 p.m., Andrew Kennedy (season 11)
#11 — 4 p.m., Dane Cook (season 3)
#10 — 4:30 p.m., Mitch Fatel (season 11)
#9 — 5 p.m., Jo Koy (season 12)
#8 — 5:30 p.m., Loni Love (season 11)
#7 — 6 p.m., Josh Sneed (season 11)
#6 — 6:30 p.m., Lisa Landry (season 11)
#5 — 7 p.m., Tammy Pescatelli (season 10)
#4 — 7:30 p.m., Doug Benson (season 13)
#3 — 8 p.m., Dan Cummins (season 12)
#2 — 8:30 p.m., Jeff Dunham's hour special, "Spark of Insanity"
#1 — 9:30 p.m., Kyle Cease (season 10)

For reference, the 2009 debut airings are part of season 13.

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61 thoughts on “2009 Comedy Central Stand-Up Showdown results

  1. Forget Tammi Pescatelli…wheres Lynn Koplitz..? she was HYSTERICAL. You can debate the rankings, its all so subjective.. but come ON now.

  2. That’s the one you pick on in the whole list? Really? There are lesser known comedians, that absolutely have no credits but Comedy Central. Please… You should have voted like her fans and the rest of the comedians who were on the list did.

  3. Weird how people always pick on the women!!I happen to have voted for Tammy and Loni love,and so did tons of my friends over and over. I think Lynn is funny too, but it wasn’t either Tammy or Lynn.

  4. You obviously never watched this showdown at all. Tammy was in it the whole time…
    Stop being a sore loser and watch her special- it’s hilarious.

  5. Say what you want, Tammy was GREAT, I saw he live 4 times and she was always VERY FUNNY and HOT!

  6. What about Kathleen Madigan? She wasn’t even in top 100? I saw her Live and she was great as well.

  7. How did the contest come down to Lynn or Tammi? There were 19 other people that you could have picked out. Tammy obviously has a lot of fans. Subjective or not.

  8. Yeah i dont want to start a whole Lynn VS Tammy thing at all.
    Theres lots of comedians that couldve made the list, Jimmy Pardo, Patton Oswalt..list goes on. I dont even have a prob with the rankings, not the way id do it, but i can see it all…except for Tammy Hehe im sorry, diff strokes and all that, and i wish i could say i dont get her or something. I just dont see her anywhere near this list..forget top 20…and 5th..? Sorry just my opinion. As for voting, i did once, for Stephen Lynch cause i thought out of the list i saw on CC he was funniest. No i didnt vote 500 times, hell only reason im following this comment board is caused i never closed this tab in my browser and it was easy to refresh.

  9. I think we should still be in awe and reverence that Mitch Hedberg is still remembered and loved enough to be on this list. Now THAT is legendary.

  10. Well, it’s wierd how you only voted for your Favorite comedian once, yet found time to blog twice about a comedian you didn’t like. You should have used you powers for good..

  11. Of all the Female comics, I thought Tammy Pescatelli was The best! I didn’t Finish watching, we are at a commercial, but so far of the males I liked #20 Kirk Fox and Josh Sneed # 7.

  12. Tammy Pescatelli is not a comedian. She doesn’t tell jokes or make people laugh. She is the female Caliendo.

  13. SkinnyfatBobKelly and Pacman,
    The two of you obviously have personal issues with Tammy. If you’re calling out comedians on standup-NOBODY laughed at Lisa Laundry, RObert Kelly hacked EVERBODY & Jeff Dunham has puppets.
    Why don’t you just face that WE Tammy fans are large in number and voted for her and Kyle Cease. People ripped apart Dane Cook for years- now you eat his dust! And Caliendo does impressions of a rich guy at the bank…Maybe your prejudice agains Italians?

  14. Yes dago wops are not funny…unless they are named Nick DiPalo.
    I hope Tammy’s uterus falls out on stage during one of her inevitable bouts of awkward silence.

  15. petey has problems and horrible taste in comedy… it’s okay, petey boy… you’re just like the rest of the masses

  16. Petey probably thinks Dat Phan is a comedic genius.
    Tammy is not remotely close to a top 100 comic and certainly not top 25 unless a clown is raping her.

  17. Robert Kelly? Is that a-hole who cursed on the TWITTER message board every chance he had,as for a comic?I disagree with the neighborhoodpetey, atleast some hacks have talent, this guy is one of Dane Cooks flunkys who completly Flunked! zero talent!!!!!!!!

  18. Still doesn’t change the fact that Tammy Pescatelli act smells like a homeless gentleman’s ball bag post mortem.

  19. Too bad you weren’t that funny on stage Robert. Who did you steal that one from? Or did you get an O and A writer to write it for you…
    Why are you pissed at her- Loni Love beat you too and she just does the same act every other fat black female comedian does.
    I am a gay man, but the sight of you may turn me straight!

  20. I thought Tammy pescatelli was Great, she’s the pretty girl that was on Last Comic Standing, she got like 17 million votes so I could see her winning.

  21. Hey ass, do you actually think I am Bob Kelly? Apparently all that semen and inability to marry has gone to your brain. That milky substance might be what is clouding your ability to understand what is funny.

  22. Keep saying the bad stuff about her- you just are propelling her fans to push her career higher and keeping her name in the spotlight. “No publicity is bad!”

  23. By pretty girl I think you mean middle aged woman that has never made a funny.
    Dr. Melfi has more chops on stage than this stereotype.
    Maybe she should join those Sopranos mooks over on Sirius and talk about capacolla all day.

  24. LOL, funny that I would motivate her fans to lie even more to the rest of the world to convince people she is funny. I hope Steve Schirripa fingers her with those big sausage digits of his.

  25. You sure are a sassy Pescatelli fan…you showed me.
    Perhaps you should go watch her special again and crank one out to her hacky italian schtick.

  26. Umm Daniel Tosh?
    I would definitely have Kyle Cease in my top 5, but I’m not sure i would put him over tosh. It really depends on what I’m in the mood for.
    “Well, it’s wierd how you only voted for your Favorite comedian once, yet found time to blog twice about a comedian you didn’t like. You should have used you powers for good..”
    Well instead of it being a competition of what fans can spend the most time on the computer he treated it as a 1 vote 1 person so instead of forcing his opinion into others faces by voting like crazy he put in his 2 cents.

  27. Im really sad Chelsea Handler didn’t make the top 20, I voted for her ever day and thought she would defiantly make it. she’s hilarious. At least Tammy made it, every time i watch her i laugh really hard.

  28. Im really sad Chelsea Handler didn’t make the top 20, I voted for her ever day and thought she would defiantly make it. she’s hilarious. At least Tammy made it, every time i watch her i laugh really hard.

  29. Bonnie is so much more talented than half of that shitty list. Pescatelli couldn’t carry Bonnie’s used tampons…not talented enough. On the bright side for you Tammy fans she has corners the market on the female italian goomba humor market. Fuck her in her middle aged funny bone.

  30. Common consensus on WackBag.com:
    Kyle Cease sucks! Bill Hicks could rape Kyle Cease on a stage.

  31. Perhaps, since we are honoring Hedbergs hilarious corpse maybe we should consider ALL of the dead comedians in the world…ALL of which are funnier than that Pescatelli cunt.

  32. Where the fuck is George Carlin? Where the fuck is Richard Pryor? Don’t get me wrong, Jeff Dunham has the potential to be truly amusing, but he can’t hold an unfunny candle to the likes of a Chris Rock or a Louis CK.

  33. Jeff Dunham is the leukemia of comedy. He should be face raped with one of his dollies.

  34. That contest was so obviously rigged. By the way, fuck Dane Cook. If it wasn’t for Louis CK, Dane wouldn’t have any material.

  35. Louis Ck??? That guy only has multiple HBO specials and movie credits on top of having had his own show. Who is he? Now this twat Pescatelli…she is a real talent…she was on a game show.

  36. What a great day it will when Kyle Cease has a coke-induced heart attack and falls face-first on the cock of the underage transexual prostitute he’s with.

  37. Louis CK, Rich Vos, Bill Burr, Robert “Bob” Kelly, Stephen Lynch, and Mitch Hedberg are the only good comics on this list.

  38. Hey guys and gals,
    Thanks for weighing in with such a, eh, vigorous debate. For those of you who missed it, I already mentioned how silly this “online contest” was on Friday. A contest automatically is silly if some of the contestants don’t know or care that they’re in it, while others aren’t included only because they didn’t have a Comedy Central half-hour special.
    For my O&A fans/readers, that means Jim Norton wasn’t even part of this shindig. Patrice likely didn’t know/care, nor did Louis CK and Bill Burr. They’ve got better things to do than try to get people to vote for them over and over again. Rich Vos and Robert Kelly had a friendly bragging rights battle going on, which explains their presence near each other on the list.
    For any other big name in comedy you didn’t see in the top 20, know that they simply didn’t bother to participate. So the whole list skews toward the few who did rally their fans throughout the month of voting. They wanted to prove something to Comedy Central that they have a fan base willing to turn out for them, buy tickets, CDs and DVDs for them, and maybe they’ll get rewarded by the network.
    I’m going to write something on Monday proposing a completely different kind of contest for Comedy Central to run next year.

  39. no wonder most of the comments were totally void of appreciation of good comedy… they’re O&A fans
    bababooey you bunch of tards

  40. Louis CK should be #1 without a doubt his stand up is hilarious and every example he gve in his “Comedy Central Presents” is true and hilarious. Kyle Cease isn’t even funny he is just hyper.

  41. Robert Kelly is a theif and a HACK, he;s so far up Dane Cooks ASS, they gotta pipe light to him!!

  42. Lets be honest, this whole list stinks! The bottom half of the list is much funnier than the top half! No female comedian is funnier than the great Louis CK! Stephen Lynch should also be in the top as well as Mitch Fatel. And where the fuck is Jim Norton? What a phoney piece of shit list with no talent comics! The only female comic that can stand up with the big boys is Lisa Lampanelli!

  43. Battling over comedians like this is quite juvenile. There is not 1 comedian alive that EVERYONE finds funny.
    I wish there had been some Pablo Francisco 🙁
    Wether or not you found Tammy funny or any comedian on the list or not. A great amount did, that’s how they earned their spots.
    Grow up people, stop hating on these comedians, they are just trying to make a living too.

  44. Battling over comedians like this is quite juvenile. There is not 1 comedian alive that EVERYONE finds funny.
    I wish there had been some Pablo Francisco 🙁
    Wether or not you found Tammy funny or any comedian on the list or not. A great amount did, that’s how they earned their spots.
    Grow up people, stop hating on these comedians, they are just trying to make a living too.

  45. Mitch Hedberg might be gone from this earth, but his jokes will keep me laughing until the day I die. Miss you, Mitch!

  46. The reason we (the antagonists of this thread) are arguing over comedians is because
    A) ruining this thread is fun
    and
    B) we’re passionate about stand-up.
    As I’ve said before, Louis CK, Mitch Hedberg, Stephen Lynch, Rich Vos, Bob Kelly, and Bill Burr are the only good comics on this list. The other comics were chosen because they do safe material. They’re not edgy, they don’t challenge the audience, and they don’t make you think.
    Comedians with real talent were passed over. That’s why we’re pissed.

  47. I can’t believe we live in a world where Tammy Pescatelli gets more votes than Louis CK.

  48. The only thing this list proves is that the voting is rigged to draw female demos and boost the ego of the dumb female comics. None of those stupid SLITS could ever sell out 2 shows 4 nights in a row at a huge club or theatre! Which ones could? Jim Norton, Louis CK, Jim Gaffigan, Stephen Lynch, Mitch Fatel, Bill Burr. Hell drag Hedburg or Kinison’s caskets on stage and they sell more tickets than these dumb TWATS!

  49. who cares about shitting on tammy pescatelli – i want to vomit every time i fucking hear bout jeff dunham! he’s like larry the cable guy with puppets. it’s lamer than watching vlogs on youtube.

  50. here’s my question. where the fuck is doug stanhope on this list? Other than hedberg, louis CK, bob kelly, stephen lynch, and patrice, nobody holds a candle to stanhope.
    also, let’s get something out of the way, Jeff Dunham is not a fucking comic. he’s a goddamn ventriloquist who does jokes out of a bad 80’s joke book. There’s only been one decent puppet act and that was otto and george

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