The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Tape Face, aka The Boy With Tape On His Face, aka 38-year-old Sam Wills from New Zealand, rode his unique wave of prop comedy, mime and street performance all the way to the stage for the finale of America’s Got Talent 2016 on Tuesday night. To the sounds of “The …
Tape Face, aka The Boy with Tape on His Face, is scheduled to launch a European tour next week. But somewhere over the course of the summer, this comedian with the style, charm and antics of a street performer — who delivered the welcoming address to performers this August at …
There will not be a stand-up comedian in the finals of the 2016 season of NBC’s America’s Got Talent. Teenager Lori Mae Hernandez came up just short, so to speak, this week. Voted out after this week’s semifinal round, in which she joked about how another Laurie Hernandez became much …
America’s Got Talent returned to NBC following the two-week break for the Summer Olympics, with the final live quarterfinal performances — which included stand-up comedian Julia Scotti. Scotti joked about how she’s getting older, her prospects for finding a man are not only getting less optimistic, but also getting more …
For Tape Face‘s first performance as one of the final 36 contestants on the live editions of America’s Got Talent 2016, the British mime managed to convince both judge Heidi Klum and host Nick Cannon to join him onstage within a four-minute performance that included two main gags. Both tied …
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 …
