Day: June 7, 2011

Melissa Villasenor, a "new face" in Montreal last summer who also has auditioned for Saturday Night Live, got a chance to showcase several of her celebrity impersonations on another NBC series, America's Got Talent. Here is Villasenor on tonight's episode from the Seattle auditions, in which she calmly breaks out her best Barbara Walters, Natalie Portman, Miley Cyrus, Kathy Griffin, Christina Aguilera. She did done good! The crowd and the judges loved her. "I don't think that you will be working in retail much longer," judge Sharon Osbourne said. Roll the clip.   Villasenor is one of a half-dozen comedians who reportedly made it through to the Las Vegas rounds this season on the televised talent search. Here is the official NBC.com highlight reel:...

Plenty of comedians have performed on game shows, and plenty of comedians have married other comedians, but few are the comedy couples who have appeared on TV game shows together. Count Abbi Crutchfield and Luke Thayer as one of those couples. They taped an episode of The Newlywed Game for GSN last week. While they cannot say how they did, nor when the episode will air, Crutchfield did share a few behind-the-scenes details and a pic she took with host Sherri Shepherd. Crutchfield writes: About a month ago a comedian friend of ours who works in the casting department for the show told us we should audition before the season ended. On the day of the shoot we sat in the green room and met a handful of other couples who didn't know anything about what would happen on the show. Most everyone kept to themselves but after several hours in a room with strangers you experience Crowded Sitcom Elevator syndrome, where you all start bonding not knowing when you'll be called to stop. Then someone has a baby. We went on with two of the couples from the green room. There was a warm-up comic keeping the crowd energized. They applauded for us and we took turns answering questions. Sherri Shepherd was a great host, and although she had been shooting all day, she stayed late to take pics...