It’s time for another dose of the summer’s singing contest. With a couple of variety acts mixed in for good measure. We start off the season in LA.
Frank Olivier comes on stage with a unicycle, some torches, and a need to switch to decaf. Either he’s incompetent, trying to scare Howie, or really good. Fearing for his life after fleeing from the stage, Howie buzzes. Piers and Sharon quite enjoyed seeing Howie get tortured.
Ryan Andreas sings Angel by Sarah McLachlan and plays piano. Piers is very impressed. Even more impressive is that he’s never performed for an audience before.
Music teacher John Jacobson plans to… teach music. He teaches the double dream hands dance, which somehow has 3.5 million views on Youtube. At least Nick and Howie are making the most of it, while the audience boos and Sharon and Piers buzz.
Brian Bausch falls on his horse. Stephanie Sanson is in need of an exorcist. Louie is a fart impersonator. Wow.
Since seeing his first magic show at age 7, Landon Swank has been a starving magician. Whatever happens, he’s got the women in the audience on his side. He makes a vase appear, then makes a girl disappear. He’s going to Vegas, where he lives.
The Body Poets impress with their dance routine. Brennan Figari takes his shirt off, then peforms an aerial routine. Olivia Bellafontaine is a burlesque rock dancer, if there is such a thing, who comes out with a whip.
Debbie has a parrot (Danny), which she has raised for 21 years since he hatched. He’s part of her act, Vegas Birds. Piers says that’s the most intelligent animal he’s ever seen, even smarter than Howie. She promises to come back with more parrots that do even more, like painting and reading minds.
Frank Miles will juggle 500,000 volt stun guns. Don’t try this at home. Oh, and then he steps in a container filled with water.
Udi Abagnale sings all around Los Angeles. Not well. The dancing’s so bad that he can’t even sing before the judges axe him. Nick insists that they allow him to make a fool out of himself. The judges agree. Then buzz him again.
Next we head to the south (apparently California is not in the south), Atlanta.
Miami All Stars is a group of 24 dancers. Way too many people. Howie calls that phenomenal, sexy, amazing. Sharon’s happy to see men dance like men. Piers is happy to see women dancing like women.
Scott Alexander is a magician, who makes a woman levitate on water. Preston Weber, 12, is a Samoan fire dancer. The Yellow Designs Stunt Team do some bicycle tricks when their bikes aren’t breaking.
5-7 year old rappers Young Jay, Tobias, and Little Josh (SH’Boss Boys) are guaranteed to get through on cuteness no matter what. Good thing they have the cute factor down.
Primitivo Montoya says he’s singing and dancing. Then he falls off the stage. After buzzing him, Howie would like credit for saving his life.
Forever Young Dancers, age 50-75, are wearing diapers for some unexplained reason. Metatron is, uh, rapping, I think. He falls off the stage, too, except he’s a lawyer.
Nicole & Mike (The Crossed Swords) are a swordfighting couple. After much booing, Piers still refuses to X them. Suddenly, Piers, Howie, and Nick are on stage getting into their own duel.
Team iLuminate combines a dance group with a computer programmer. Piers says that is the single most exciting audition ever.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 6 Episode 2, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.