Who's the 'Last Comic Standing'? NBC pulls show before final episode

The network says the winner will be revealed.
WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON -- NBC has yanked the third edition of the competition series "Last Comic Standing" off its Tuesday lineup.
There was only one episode left to air in this edition's eight-episode order -- the episode in which the winner of the competition is announced.
"'Last Comic Standing' is cancelled!!!" host Jay Mohr says on his Web site.
"Amazing. Why would a network cancel a show with only one episode left?" he adds, which is a good question.
NBC has said only that the finale would not air next week but that the winner would be revealed to viewers in some fashion or another.
Unhappy with ratings
NBC had changed its prime-time lineup to include a fall edition of "Last Comic Standing" based on its performance this past summer.
On his site, Mohr says NBC was not happy with the ratings for the third edition and decided to pull the plug. It's true, the ratings were really, really bad. A perfectly adequate summer series -- the second edition averaged about 8 million viewers -- "Comic" opened its "fall" edition in late August with 7.7 million viewers, following a special 90-minute edition of "Fear Factor." It hasn't seen that many viewers since. Most recently, it scored 5.7 million; last week it suffered a series low of 5.5 million.
Even worse, from NBC's point of view, "Last Comic Standing" finished fifth in its time slot last Tuesday among the 18-to-49-year-olds NBC says is the basis of all its ad sales.
NBC will air a 90-minute marathon of "Father of the Pride" from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday.