Watch Melissa Villasenor’s audition for NBC’s America’s Got Talent 2011

Melissa_villasenor_americasgottalentMelissa 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:


 

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