The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
Canadian stand-up comedian D.J. Demers made his American TV debut a couple of years ago on Conan, and will be filming a one-hour comedy special later this month in Toronto. But Demers has higher aspirations down here in the United States. “I wear hearing aids. I’m from Canada. Two disabilities,” …
What is a Laughter Coach? Tita Begashaw, a 62-year-old from Seattle, is here to fill us in. She went by just her first name, Tita, when she approached the judges on Tuesday night’s second episode of auditions for America’s Got Talent 2016. Does laughter begat more laughter? Is laughter contagious? …
Tape Face — aka The Boy With Tape On His Face — won the Panel Award at Edinburgh Fringe in 2012, and has won multiple awards from Chortle and from the Adelaide Fringe. So it’s about time for him to conquer America, yes? That’s the plan. And it began tonight …
Kids say the darnedest things if they can memorize them. And America’s Got Talent had no shame opening its 2016 season with a 6-year-old kid telling jokes. Meet Nathan Bockstahler. He’s cute. He knows how to interact with the judges — asking for one million Legos instead of $1 million …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
