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Could John Wing join Taylor Williamson and make for two stand-up comedians in the finals for the 2013 season of America’s Got Talent? For his live semifinal performance Tuesday night on NBC, Wing focused his performance on his wife and the power dynamic she exerts over him — and by …
Heidi Klum didn’t much care for Taylor Williamson’s quarterfinal performance this month on America’s Got Talent. But Williamson squeaked through to the semis, anyhow, based on votes from the audience at home. That’s you, Taylords! So for this round, the stand-up comedian said he would tailor his performance for Klum …
Angela Hoover took on celebrity moms in her semifinal performance on last night’s live episode of America’s Got Talent on NBC. If celebrities are just like us, as the tabloid magazines suggest, why then are they getting so much praise for acting like us? That’s the premise for Hoover’s routine, …
Stand-up comedian Tom Cotter returned last night to America’s Got Talent for an encore performance. Cotter had finished runner-up in the summer 2012 season on NBC. “If you didn’t watch the show last year, let me give you a brief synopsis. I lost to a dog act in front of …
John Wing may have made some dumb decisions earlier in his life, but he made a very smart one last night on live primetime network television. With only a couple of minutes to impress the judges and live audiences in Radio City Music Hall (and everywhere watching on NBC), Wing …
Unlike other performers on America’s Got Talent, stand-up comedian Taylor Williamson didn’t try to pull at anyone’s heartstrings with his background video, nor did he ramp up his routine with bells and whistles to make it anything more than it is. Williamson just wanted to make you laugh. Of course. …
For his quarterfinal appearance/performance on America’s Got Talent, Jim Meskimen took a page out of 2012 runner up Tom Cotter’s playbook and invited the judges and the audience into his act — asking them to help decide which jokes he’d tell. In Meskimen’s case, as a celebrity impersonator, he put …
The host of NBC’s America’s Got Talent, Nick Cannon, performs stand-up comedy. One of the show’s judges, Howie Mandel, got his big break in show business as a stand-up comedian. But could a comedian ever win AGT? Before you say Terry Fator, remember this: Fator, listed among the biggest-earning comedians …
For her quarterfinal performance last night on America’s Got Talent, Angela Hoover decided to use her 90 seconds of stage time to poke fun at the judges — impersonating both Mel B. and Heidi Klum — a tactic which served her well with those two. Howard Stern, on the other …
Kevin Downey Jr. was the first of the six comedians to perform in the quarterfinals of 2013’s edition of America’s Got Talent. A pre-taped package on Downey showed him at home with a Howie Mandel record (!), and him saying: “You play it safe and no one’s ever going to …
