Who are these two clowns? They’re Les Beaux Frères, aka a French-Canadian duo act who have worked with Cirque du Soleil and Machine de Cirque. Yohann Trépanier and Raphaël Dubé performed on France’s Got Talent in 2014, and now they’re…
Continue ReadingIf you’re not hip to Keith Apicary, you probably will be this summer. That’s because he finally debuted in primetime on NBC via America’s Got Talent. “Keith Apicary” is a character created by Nathan Barnatt. Barnatt, 40, o…
Continue ReadingIf you’re not hip to Keith Apicary, you probably will be this summer. That’s because he finally debuted in primetime on NBC via America’s Got Talent. “Keith Apicary” is a character created by Nathan Barnatt. Barnatt, 40, o…
Continue ReadingStand-up comedian Gerald Kelly has waited his whole life for the opportunity to compete on America’s Got Talent. So has Kelly’s 7-year-old son, Little Hunter Kelly. Gerald has toured with his kids in the past, so maybe NBC’s AGT is ju…
Continue ReadingAlex Hooper peels back the curtain on his two runs through America’s Got Talent, the summer competition series broadcast in primetime by NBC, in a new essay, “Playing the Game on Hard Mode.” Going on TV can be a nerve-wracking experie…
Continue ReadingAlex Hooper roasted the judges on America’s Got Talent both when he first auditioned a few years ago, and again this year, and wasn’t going to let that stop him once he became the last comedian standing in the competition’s final quar…
Continue Reading2020 has been a rough year for live stand-up comedy, and equally rough for this year’s stand-ups competing on America’s Got Talent. Usama Siddiquee performed in this week’s quarterfinals, and did not make it to the semis. Here’s…
Continue ReadingThe live episodes of America’s Got Talent 2020 began on Tuesday without a live audience, per se, although NBC had judges and a crew on hand in addition to the virtual audience who Zoomed in to watch the first night of the quarterfinals, which fea…
Continue ReadingThis is a first: America’s Got Talent isn’t waiting for you to watch any more episodes on NBC before revealing who are the 44 acts remaining that will compete in the live shows this August. Among them: comedians Alex Hooper, Usama Siddiquee…
Continue ReadingFor the first week of “Judge Cuts” on the 2020 season of America’s Got Talent, the contestants performed separately from the show’s four judges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That meant that most of them also could do something u…
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