The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The 2016 season of America’s Got Talent began its live show elimination competitions on Tuesday night, and two of the three remaining comedy acts among the final 36 performed tonight. Lori Mae Hernandez, all of 13, came out of the gates, and after acknowledging she was on the stage in …
In case you forgot, this 11th season of America’s Got Talent on NBC features a 6-year-old stand-up comedian in California kid Nathan Bockstahler. For his callback audition during the “Judge Cuts” round on Wednesday night’s episode, Bockstahler certainly didn’t forget his 70 seconds of hot jokes about his parents lying …
Tape Face returned to impress the judges on America’s Got Talent, and even get one of them — Howie Mandel — into the act. You’ll be seeing but not hearing more of Tape Face later this summer in the live episodes coming to NBC. Roll the clip! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_9MZ59igWA
All of the judges (including guest judge George Lopez) loved Sam Morril’s callback audition as seen on Tuesday’s “Judge Cuts” episode of America’s Got Talent, and yet, they cut him nevertheless at the end of the night when they had to pick only seven of 20 acts to move on …
Julia Scotti joked about how she’s still in stand-up comedy at 63 because she needs the burial money, but America’s Got Talent judge Howie Mandel made sure to ask her if she also jokes about “the thing.” That she’s transgendered. The audience loved her, and Scotti’s going through to the …
Adam Grabowski received four yes votes from the America’s Got Talent judges during his 2016 audition as just shown last week, but during tonight’s Judges Cut round, Grabowski claimed they didn’t even air his full bit that he does performing at college campuses. Roll the clips. This was from Grabowski’s …
Lori Mae Hernandez’s feel-good story and her plucky stage presence may have won over the judges even more than her stand-up material, as America’s Got Talent 2016 moved the 13-year-old through to the live shows later this summer. But then, everyone loves a feel good story, right? Roll the clip. …
Julia Scotti is a 63-year-old stand-up comedian who impressed the judges Tuesday night during her audition on America’s Got Talent, then wowed them even more when she explained that she had tried to make a go of a career in comedy for 20 years, then quit, took an 11-year-break, and …
Step away from your TV screen for a minute and you may have missed the successful auditions that aired this week for comedians Al Ducharme and Josh Waldron on the 2016 season of America’s Got Talent. Perhaps NBC is holding back so they can show these guys off in the …
Lori Mae Hernandez told the America’s Got Talent judges that she had been doing stand-up comedy for three years prior to her audition on Tuesday night’s episode. Of course, Lori Mae still is only 13. So she doesn’t have much life experience to draw upon for her comedy. But she …
