The Definitive Guide to Comedy
When you hear the words Tape Face, what do you picture? Sam Wills began his comedy career in his native New Zealand as a teenage clown in training, complete with a diploma from a circus school in Christchurch. But after an initial foray into stand-up comedy, his friends challenged him …
Josh Blue is a former Last Comic Standing champion who finished third when he competed on America’s Got Talent in 2021. How’d he do on AGT: All-Stars? Not as well. Not that that stopped him from getting a standing ovation.
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!
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!
Jackie Fabulous made it to the semifinals of AGT Season 14, and that earned her an invite back this January for AGT All-Stars. She didn’t advance this time, though so far, no comedy acts have garnered enough audience votes. But a primetime network TV stand-up appearance still is worth plenty …
He’s only 13, but Jamie Leahey already made the finals of Britain’s Got Talent last year and got invited to AGT: All-Stars. Jamie says he decided to teach himself ventriloquism during lockdown. And you made banana bread…?
Lioz Shem Tov has gotten around. Since performing on Season 13 of AGT, the comedy mentalist has gone on to compete in the Got Talent universe formats for Australia, Britain, France and Israel. And now he’s back for AGT All-Stars, though he will not win this time, either.
NBC kicked off 2023 with an all-star competition edition of America’s Got Talent, and AGT season 2 winner Terry Fator — who has made major bank headlining Vegas casinos since his win in 2007 — performed on the debut episode. Fator didn’t advance to the next round this time, but …
Viewers voted to save ventriloquist Celia Munoz a spot in the finals for America’s Got Talent in 2022. She had a few tricks still up her sleeves for this performance, set in a seance. Munoz won Spain’s Got Talent last year. Could she go 2-for-2 here?
