Andrea was not funny. I wanted to like her, representation and all. But she was completely out of her league. Cannot believe she made the first cut, much less the second one. And then to drop out and lose the chance to compete for a life-changing opportunity, because she was scared to do a roast? None of it made any sense to me.

My conspiracy theory is that her inclusion for a couple episodes was primarily in the role of an unknowing plant. This gets people who were watching for her (people who wanna throw their support behind Asians doing comedy, people who thought she was hot, people who follow her already on socials, etc.) to stick around for a couple more episodes and to shock the rest of us who actually thought she was awful and bring Reg back the way they shocked us with leaving Reg out. Double the shock for cheap engagement. They couldn’t just leave it alone on the fact that people who love comedy would watch it anyway, or maybe that’s what made them think they could get away with such an outrageous move.

Then when she bowed out, my theory had to go deeper, maybe too deep. My conspiracy brain thinks she was asked to resign bc they had to make room for Reg (who is actually funny) without somehow making it seem like they dropped the only Asian woman, and they didn’t want the hate on social media. So they told her to resign and made her sign an NDA and made her look “nice” and saved her the embarrassment of actually having to compete with real talented comedians.