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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
