The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Three times, ventriloquists have won America’s Got Talent. Could Michael Paul be the fourth? It certainly helped that the Philly vent opened his act with a bit of a misdirect, telling the judges and audience he was actually an exotic bird trainer.
Kevin Schwartz, a 49-year-old agoraphobe, finally got out of his home in Madison, Wisc., when his therapist encouraged him to visit the comedy club a few blocks down the road. Now here Schwartz is telling one-liners on America’s Got Talent. What a country.
If at first you don’t succeed, Sethward failed failed again. This performance artist comedian flashed the audience last summer as a caterpillar turning into a butterfly. This summer, America’s Got Talent let him back onstage. Not once, but twice. First, he tried performing as a giraffe. And later as a …
“When I was growing up, there was nobody that looked like me on television, so I kind of want to be the first one that’s doing all that. I want people to be able to look at what I’m doing.” That’s what stand-up comedian Ryan Niemiller told Simon Cowell at …
Greg Morton was a rookie in the NFL when Star Wars first came out in 1977. All these years later, Morton still remembers all the voices, and performed impersonations for his audition on America’s Got Talent. Roll the clip!
America’s Got Talent has returned for another summer on NBC, this time with two new judges in Gabrielle Union and Julianne Hough joining Howie Mandel and Simon Cowell. How will this affect the comedians auditioning in 2019? So far, so good for Jackie Fabulous, who quit her job as a …
In the years since the last edition of Last Comic Standing, comedians have gotten their biggest breaks on NBC via America’s Got Talent. But on AGT, they’ve had to compete with all sorts of entertainers, and aside from ventriloquists, no comedian has ever won AGT. Now they’ll have a new …
This week, we saw the return of two former finalists and one former champ of America’s Got Talent on NBC’s all-star season. None of them made it to the all-star finals. But still, some prime primetime screen time for Tape Face, Paul Zerdin and Drew Lynch. Roll the clips!
Round one of AGT: The Champions aired Monday night on NBC, and if everything else proceeds as this did, we’ll see 10 all-stars perform each week, with one receiving a “golden buzzer” from the judges, one advancing thanks to votes from the audience, and the rest enjoying their brief time …
American TV audiences will finally get to hear Susan Boyle sing in primetime. Boyle is one of 50 acts from the Got Talent franchise worldwide, and the first phenomenon from it, to participate in the first-ever all-star edition for NBC, called America’s Got Talent: The Champions. The lineup also includes …
