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Ana-Maria Mărgean is only 13, and yet she already has won over the judges and viewers of Romania’s Got Talent, and after this performance, she finds herself in the finals of AGT: All-Stars! That Terry Fator Bump in effect!
Axel Blake won Britain’s Got Talent last year, something no stand-up comedian in America can say about AGT. Despite getting the Golden Buzzer from Simon Cowell on BGT, Blake didn’t find the same level of success this week performing on AGT: All-Stars. They cannot take away his BGT title, though!
The film unit that does post-production editing for Saturday Night Live formed a union in the fall, but is still operating without a contract from NBCUniversal. Might they go on strike? They just might! More on that, news you can use if you perform at the newly revived Upright Citizens …
Cathy Ladman celebrated her 10th performance on The Tonight Show, and joked Friday night about how old age has changed her, and her relationships with men and with medications. At least she still knows that jingle about the Erie Canal, though!
Katie Hannigan joked on The Late Late Show about moving in with her boyfriend, and how they fight over what to watch on the TV, as well as some other jokes at his expense.
Sam Morrison and his glucose monitor performed on Late Night with Seth Meyers. Morrison is currently running his one-man show Off-Broadway at SoHo Playhouse in NYC, billed as “an outrageous journey of love, loss, diabetes, seagull attacks, and a few extraordinary coincidences.”
So many Santos impersonations, Craig Ferguson is coming back to late-night?, #RIP Michael Lehrer, last week’s roundup of new comedy specials and late-night sets, and a shameless plug! All in this week’s dispatch From The Comic’s Comic, delivered straight to your email inbox if you subscribe to my Substack, Piffany.
Fabrizio Copano made his late-night TV debut last night on The Late Late Show, and he joked about how an actual friend of his has just become the president of Chile. Copano wasn’t doing so bad for himself in Chile, either, before coming to America. Millennials, am I right?!
Fahim Anwar made his Tonight Show debut last night, and implores airline passengers to wait even just a couple of seconds after landing before leaping out of their seats. Anwar has more observations about air travel, as well as how to behave on the dance floor. Here’s a link to …
Mike E. Winfield made the finals last summer in Season 17 of America’s Got Talent, and Simon Cowell wanted to make sure we saw Winfield in the finals of AGT: All-Stars, so Cowell gave the comedian his first-ever “Golden Buzzer” EZ-Pass straight to the grand finale! Congrats Mike!
