I laughed out loud (and startled the cat) when the magician said “that was absolutely part of the act–I was playing with your mind!” to excuse the extremely obvious flub in his act. What do you want to bet that girl gets fired from the act? Heh. What a doofus. It would have looked a whole lot better for him if he’d have admitted “yeah we had a snag, we’ll polish it up better for next time, we promise” than that weak “I meant to do that!” bullshit. :rolleyes:
What they did last year:
They had four ‘semi-finals’ shows, each with ten acts, with telephone voting. The top two vote getters from each show moved on to the Finals. In addition there were two ‘judges choices’ to make the final show have ten acts.
Then the top vote getter wins.