The season premiere is tonight (and I’ll miss it, dammit – will Piers’s intro now prominently mention that he’s the winner of the first Celebrity Apprentice?). I’m psyched for a couple of months of all manner of odd entertainment – who else is in?
I’ll be there.
I hope to watch, but we may have to go to the in-laws. If it’s like last year, it will be on several times on Bravo.
BTW, that group of guys in drag who are singing in the promos? They are the the Kinsey Sicks and they did a show here in Las Vegas that was both hysterical and really, really good musically!
They ought to knock the audience out of their seats!
Oh, and here is a direct link to Kinsey Sicks on You Tube.
I like America’s Got Talent…they aren’t afraid to throw in some really odd acts that make it fun to watch…and last year’s winner now has a multi-million dollar contract to star in his own show in Mirage here in Las Vegas - taking over Danny Gans theater when Gans moves over to the new Wynn hotel, Encore.
That is good news. He’s an immensely talented guy, and Vegas seems like the perfect venue for him.
I only saw the last half hour. The Britney impersonator was a better Britney than Britney is right now but all he really has is the look, dancing and lip synching which really isn’t all that talented. The opera singing guy that they saved for last was good but was he really that good or were they just hyping him for the drama because he cried everytime he talked about his mom? It’s nice to see an audience appreciate a good singer no matter the genre but because of all the screaming and applauding I really didn’t get to hear that much of his performance.
The winner of the British version won last year with Nessun Dorma. This guy was good but not great. Maybe the finals, maybe not.
Here is the important question for the Dopers - would you have passed the 4 year old girl on to Las Vegas?
America’s Got Talent. Just not as much as I would have assumed.
Why do they try to make this show so maudlin? The baton twirler whose peers berated him. Boo hoo. The opera singer who loves his mother. Boo hoo hoo. The slow-motion footage and the syrupy female vocals playing under the interview segments. Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo. It’s fuckin’ awful! I wouldn’t need all the phoney drama if there was more real talent on display.
Anyway, the 4-year-old singer was the best, so just give her the million and put something good in the time slot for the rest of the summer.
The opera singer needs to work on his intonation and on hitting the notes more precisely. [Sarcastically: but other than that, he was great!]
I liked the teenage boy in the sequinned vest with the fire baton dancing/juggling act (“now, that’s flaming!”), but then I’m a major fag hag.
The best baton twirler I ever saw was a guy who performed at halftime of Long Beach State games in the 1980’s
No way.
She was adorable, but no, I wouldn’t have passed her to Vegas.
Nope.
Oh, and I was terribly frightened the whole time the 80 y.o. woman was tap dancing - not that she’d fall off the front of the stage like Springer seemed to think, but that her skirt would fly up.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s fantastic that she’s still able to tap dance at her age - I can’t tap dance at all - but skirt a little longer would have made me cringe less.
This is the kind of thing that chaps my ass with all these shows. (Note: I’m a talentless loser who still watches it all from the sidelines, but I can call crap when I see it.) We ALL know or have cute kids. Doesn’t mean I want to spend ten minutes watching some total stranger’s kids sing/whisper though a song that’s been sung a hundred times better by hundreds of others just because these kids can’t pronounce their R’s. Would anyone actually pay $25/ticket to see an hour-long show of that in Vegas? Then, why in the hell would you pass her though? Go to any local music/dance recital and you can fidget and yawn through three hours of it for FREE!
Personally, no.
However - anybody ever hear of Shirley Temple?
From Wikipedia: “Temple’s popularity earned her both public adulation and the approval of peers. At the age of five, the hallmark of her acting work was her professionalism: she always had her lines memorized and dance steps prepared when shooting began. After rising to fame at the age of six with her breakthrough performance in Bright Eyes in 1934, she starred in a series of highly successful films which won her widespread public adulation and saw her become the top grossing star at the American box-office during the height of the Depression. She went on to star in films as a young adult in the 1940s. In later life, she became a United States ambassador and diplomat.”
So who knows - this little pipsqueak has just as much chance of having a career as a singing ventriloquist.
I think that the most impressive thing about the four year old was that she knew all the words and stuck (mostly) to the melody. Some of the words weren’t exactly right because she probably learned from hearing it, but she still knew what she was singing and managed to do it in front of a 2,000 person audience. That is really impressive for a four year old. That being said, I probably would have told her to come back in a few years.
I thought the British guy was better.
I’m no fan of Paul Potts, but he could sing circles around this guy with one vocal cord tied behind his back (which sounds really painful now that I think about it).
This year, a teenage dancer ( George Sampson ) won Britain’s Got Talent.
Piers Morgan was fired from his job as a newspaper editor and has no knowledge of show business. His speciality is being rude to children and families. :smack: :rolleyes: