Celebrity Apprentice Recap: Then There Were Two

After a quick recap showing Teresa Giudice and Lisa Lampanelli getting their walking papers last week, we joined Donald Trump (with his pink tie back on) in the boardroom, where he resumed whittling down the Celebrity Apprentices. He questioned Clay Aiken, Aubrey O’Day and Arsenio Hall as to why they thought they ought to be in the Final Two and get the chance to be this year’s Celebrity Apprentice.

Clay claimed he’s been considered the strongest player on whatever team he was on most of the time and he was on the winning team 70% of the time.

Aubrey thought Trump should choose her over Arsenio or Clay because she has made the most and done the most in all of the tasks.

Arsenio’s lapse in judgment in calling Aubrey horrible names came back up and Trump related how much he hates when politicians say crappy things and then make public apologies. Arsenio pointed out that he’s not a politician and did not apologize for getting angry but for his choice of some very inappropriate language when reacting to it. He said he’s a tireless worker and if he got the Donald Trump stamp of approval, he would spend the rest of his life validating that.

Trump went straight for Aubrey’s jugular, telling her how Marlee Matlin and John Rich were unimpressed with her greatness and one of them said she was transparent, something he agreed with. Trump asked her if she understood that he has to listen to his advisors. Aubrey said he should listen to himself. He did and fired her ass.

Whoever called me transparent, bleep them ~ Aubrey O’Day

Aubrey blew Amanda a kiss on her way down the elevator and Amanda blew one back.

Now that Lisa and Aubrey are gone we don’t have to think of this as the Season of the Witches anymore.

Then at Lincoln Center, they’re back! LOL!!! Aubrey O’Day and Lisa Lampanelli are back to help with the last task, as well as Penn Jillette, Dee Snider, Paul Teutel Sr., Adam Corrolla, Debbie Gibson and Teresa Giudice. MIA (as predicted by Lisa) were Lou Ferrigno, Tia Carrere and Dayana Mendoza. George Takei was also absent.

The last task is to produce, host and sell tickets to a celebrity charity event, plus create a 30 second charity ad and produce a variety show to entertain the guests.

Since Arsenio won both his tasks, he got first choice and he chose Adam. Clay then chose Penn and Arsenio took Lisa. Clay took Debbie and we were down to Aubrey and Teresa. Arsenio picked Teresa and pretty much said he didn’t want Aubrey ruining his enjoyment of his last task.

I wanted to have a pleasant couple days so I took the person who was nice to be around. ~ Arsenio Hall

Ouch! Clay said he wasn’t upset to get stuck with Aubrey, who vowed to step up and overcompensate to really prove that she should have been picked first. Poor Clay! But it was his intent to put on an awesome music show. Aubrey came up with a carnival theme and threw her full support behind Clay because

Arsenio’s dirt. ~ Aubrey O’Day

Arsenio knew what Clay was up to and said it could turn out to be the “choir from hell.” He planned on a comedy event. They planned to get an ad spot from Magic Johnson himself. Arsenio thought that would be a home run for him. Arsenio was going to use comedy as a flare to get everyone’s attention.

I have gotten a laugh at a funeral ~ Arsenio Hall

Dee Snider, you may know, already has some experience because he was part of John Rich’s presentation in Retro Rumble last year. But Clay’s team runs into snafu after snafu. Aubrey loses interest in Clay winning when he dares to try to rein in her creativity. This is reminding us big-time of last year when it looked like John Rich was going to lose for sure and then he won. But the main thing that Clay’s team is neglecting to focus on is raising money and when they do get around to it, they don’t appear to be doing too hot on that either — at first. Later, Lisa Lampanelli calls up, using puppet aliases, and asks Clay to reserve a ticket in her name. She is going to bring a donation. This is the same Lisa who called Lou Ferrigno Benedict Arnold for betraying his team, isn’t it? Aubrey, meantime, gets a friend to commit to a donation she believes will be at least $10,000. That earns her a kiss from Clay.

Oh my God! Clay Aiken kissed me! I’m a Clay-Mate. ~ Aubrey O’Day

Then Clay runs into friction with Debbie. He disagrees with her on several fronts. He interferes with her musical process. He refuses to trust Debbie’s relative who has cancelled work engagements to come over and paint a mural on their wall unless he can see a drawing. Clay is adamant. No drawing. No mural. Debbie is ready to throw in the towel.

Team Arsenio runs into problems of its own when they get the Magic Johnson footage and it’s all been shot from the wrong angle! Adam Corolla neglected to tell Arsenio that his team was more of an audio podcast type of team and he’s not exactly the Einstein of camera directions either.

The coming attractions promise that Dayana, Lou and Lisa will have to share the same stage. What fun! Lou thinks so too. Earlier this week, he tweeted: