You know, I think that this is all production house gimmicks. Sony TV which owns "Comedy Circus" must be behind the exceedingly low marks given to Star One "Laughter Challenge" contestants to in order their shows look better. There is no other logic for such biased scores.
Javed Akhtar is a judge for Indian Idol on Sony TV, same for Javed Jaffrey who is a judge on Sony's Boogie Woogie. As for Saroj Khan, her paycheck for this show is given by Sony producers. So, all of them are probably just doing what they were told to do.
Did you notice that in most cases they even wrote the scores before the contestant finished. TOO MUCH!!!!
Rauf Lala was not good ,but the rest were quite good--none of them deserved 2 or 3 at least!!! While, the judges gave consistently better scores to Comedy Circus contestants and gave consistently lower scores to Star One contestants. Such bias!!!!!
See, no wonder shows have public voting! Even though, public votes can be manipulated, but still it is much better than the bias the judges display on such shows.
Mark my words, the the same thing will happen tomorrow with Indian Idol (which is Sony program) and Saregama (Zee TV program).
The judges will give Emon and Amit higher scores than Raja and Mauli, just because they are Sony channel contestants.
It disgusts me to see such network politics, but there is no other explanation for the way the contestants were treated in the Comedy round!