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LOL: Last One Laughing Philippines

LOL: Last One Laughing Philippines is a Philippine comedy reality competition series on Prime Video in which ten comedians spend six hours together trying to make each other laugh while suppressing their own laughter; the last contestant to keep a straight face wins ₱1,000,000. It is the Philippine adaptation of the Japanese format Documental, created by comedian Hitoshi Matsumoto, and is hosted by Vice Ganda.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Format	Ten comedians locked together for six hours; laughing, smirking, or visibly reacting brings a warning, and a second offense eliminates the player³
Prize	₱1,000,000 cash and the LOL Philippines Trophy³
Host	Vice Ganda, who also issues the warning and elimination cards from an observation room¹
Season 1	Premiered July 4, 2024; six episodes of about 30 minutes; won by Chad Kinis on July 18, 2024⁴^•⁵
Season 2	Premieres October 30, 2026 on Prime Video, in the Philippines and in more than 240 countries and territories⁶^•¹
Origin	Local adaptation of the Japanese Amazon Original HITOSHI MATSUMOTO Presents Documental¹
Audience rating	6.1/10 on IMDb from 69 votes⁷

Spoilers

Season 1 (2024)

The first season premiered on July 4, 2024, with two episodes released that day and subsequent pairs on July 11 and July 18, for six episodes of roughly 30 minutes each.⁴^•⁹ The contestants were Chad Kinis, Jerald Napoles, Rufa Mae Quinto, Empoy Marquez, Pepe Herrera, Tuesday Vargas, Jayson Gainza, Kim Molina, Negi, and Victor Anastacio.⁵

The season's comedy ranged from prepared character sets to improvised stunts. Rufa Mae Quinto was regarded by the other contestants as the biggest threat, delivering punchlines in her signature speaking voice; Pepe Herrera performed a series of wacky characters, including a person possessed by poop, alugbati, and plastic; Empoy Marquez played a grieving superhero whose pet fish had died; and Chad Kinis did a beauty-pageant comedy bit.⁵^•⁹ In the finale, the last two contestants survived the returning eliminated players and head-to-head games, and Chad Kinis was proclaimed the first champion, winning the ₱1,000,000 prize after his tricks made Empoy and Rufa Mae break the no-laughing rule.⁵

Following its premiere, the series became Prime Video's number one reality competition show and trended across social media networks, and short clips from the episodes circulated widely.¹⁰

Season 2 (2026)

Prime Video announced a second season in 2026, with Vice Ganda returning as host and director Randolph Longjas returning behind the camera. The new cast spans generations of Filipino comedy: Ethel Booba, Long Mejia, Epy Quizon, Pooh, Candy Pangilinan, Esnyr, Donna Cariaga, Chariz Solomon, James Caraan, and Charuth.¹^•⁶ The season is set in a new location introduced in the trailer as "LOL Terminal," and premieres on October 30, 2026, exclusively on Prime Video in the Philippines and in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.¹¹^•¹

Longjas said the contrast between the younger and older contestants, and their different approaches to the games and performances, was what he most looked forward to, and he credited the Filipino audience's appreciation of comedy for his confidence in the season.¹ Speaking at a Prime Video slate event in April 2026, he said "Season two will be crazier" and that the cast would represent "comedy from different platforms across all generations."¹⁰

Format and rules

The show places ten well-known Filipino comedians in a living-room style studio, referred to in press coverage as the "Bahay ni Lola," with hidden cameras. For about six hours each must try to make the others laugh by any means while remaining expressionless themselves. A contestant who laughs, smirks, or visibly reacts receives a yellow card as a warning; a second offense brings a red card and elimination, and large infractions can draw an automatic red card. Comedians can also be eliminated for being insufficiently active.³^•⁸Eliminated players join Vice Ganda in the observation room but may return as external challengers to attack the remaining contestants, and in the season finale all the eliminated comedians re-enter the house for a final attempt to break the last two. The only link to the outside is a telephone controlled by the host.⁹

Production and context

The series is produced for Prime Video by Amazon MGM Studios with Philippine production companies Unitel and Straight Shooters, and runs about 30 minutes per episode in Tagalog, with English subtitles.⁴^•⁹ Season 1 was directed by Jay Klio Bermudez, Butch Burac, and Marika Daphne Esplana, with Randolph Longjas among the producers; Longjas directed the second season.¹²^•¹⁰

The Philippine edition belongs to an international LOL: Last One Laughing franchise with editions in Australia, Canada, and European countries, all following the Documental format of ten comedians in a closed-door battle of laughter.¹³ BusinessWorld reported that the series leads Prime Video's Filipino content slate and, in Longjas's words, showed that Filipino storytelling "can become global," with the series having reached other countries.¹⁰

References

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 21, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026