Category: america’s got talent

The road to the top 48 began in America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 11. Tonight Vegas week continues.

The magic category starts first. Eric Dittelman reads Sharon’s mind of her first crush, the name of whom she just made up. Taylor Reed makes a helicopter appear. Escape artist Spencer Horseman makes his way out of a locked tank of water.

Next singing category, vocal groups. Eric & Olivia still aren’t in love. I’m still not sure what purpose he serves, but she has an interesting voice. Maurice & Shanice Hayes stumble, as again she outperforms her partner. Jorge & Alexa Narvaez seem to be pretty much guaranteed a spot since she’s 7, though Howard says it sounds like a dress rehearsal.

Comedians are the next group, well aware they are facing an uphill battle. Jacob Williams, Sammy Obeid, Dave Burleigh, Kellen Erskine, Tom Cotter, and Frank Roche are in this group. Tom seems to have the most success. Frank can’t even get through his act, and he’s gone.

Next we move on to the kids. Sebastien “El Charro de Oro” returns with his mariachi band. Issac Brown is still primarily carried by his charisma. Piano player Edon and dance crew The Untouchables round out the musical stylings. Amazing Elizabeth is a 6 year old who does an aerial act. Now that’s something I haven’t seen before.

From musical kids, we move to male singers. Because there hasn’t been enough music yet. Ulysses remains a theme song singer. Daniel Park gets skipped past quickly. Jake Wesley Rogers has Sharon on his side. Tim Poe, who has been accused of making up his military injury, follows. Tim Hockenberry is the bright spot of the category.

Jorge & Alexa have been eliminated. Tom and Jacob are the comedians to make it. Loyalty Dance Team is out. Amazing Elizabeth and Issac are as well, but The Untouchables, Edon, Sebastien advance. Tim Poe and Ken get cut while 787 Crew make it. Tim Hockenberry, Jake, and even Ulysses are going to New York. Both the duos with noticeably weaker components make it through. Spencer does, too, as does painter Joe Castillo. Ben Blaque joins the lucky list. Apparently stupidity is a talent because Horse is not left behind. Simply Sergio and Luiz Meneghin are eliminated. Andrew de Leon, who looked like he was going to win this whole thing at first, faces perhaps the most shocking elimination of the lot.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 13, which airs Wednesday at 9/8c on NBC.

787 Crew came from Puerto Rico to dance, and daughter of Olympic gold medalists Mary Joyner sang in America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 10. Tonight we head to Vegas to start narrowing it down to the top 48.

They have divided them into two groups: the favorites and the stand bys. The favorites will perform first, then the stand bys will perform and compete for any remaining spots. Anyone not in either group is going home right away.

Among those going home are William Close, Olate Dogs, Bandbaz Brothers, David “The Bullet” Smith, Charlie C, and Ivy Rose. Or are they? Half of them are just being Punk’d. William Close, Olate Dogs, and David Smith have a pass straight to the live shows.

All Wheel Sports return with a lot of new stuff. Too much. American BMX Stunt Team face a wipeout. New Guard America is a drill team in which a bunch of men throw guns around a hot chick. Cristin Sandu performs a balancing act that has everyone afraid. Ben Blaque botches his rehearsal but doesn’t kill his assistant with an arrow in the performance despite being blindfolded.

From danger we move to singing. Mary Joyner disappoints. Roxy Doll, Brianna Price, and Cecilia Detwiler get put into a montage that does not impress the judges. Luna crashes and burns and is immediately sent packing. Nikki Jensen moved to America because apparently they don’t have singers (or Australia’s Got Talent) where she’s from. Her voice is interesting, if different.

Moving on to dance. Funk Beyond Control and All That! are just okay. Loyalty Dance Team are one of the top crews, but the judges don’t seem too happy. 787 Crew brings it… until they make a noticeable mistake.

Novelty is up next. Horse is the king of nut shots. Is stupidity really a talent? All Beef Patty is a terrible drag queen. Joe Castillo does some more great painting. Todd Oliver & Irving are a mildly funny ventriloquist act. Light Wire Theater and Aurora Light Painters have the competition shaking.

We finish the night with what’s likely just one of eight singing categories, classical singing. Simply Sergio was a disaster in his audition, and tonight he tells us his voice is only about 30%. Wouldn’t know based on the fact that he’s humming and lying about why. Luiz Meneghin still has a great voice, though he acknowledges he could have done a lot better. Andrew de Leon is at the front of the pack after his first performance, but he, too, falls apart in the middle of his song.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 12, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on NBC.

The Miami All Stars returned with junior dance group The Untouchables in America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 9, and we also saw a couple of other good acts, American BMX Stunt Team and Lindsey Norton. Tonight the auditions continue somewhere presumably in the US.

Thia has brought with her Smooch Piggy. The pig mostly just wants to take a nap.

Liliana Rose Silva (Lil Starr) is a 6 year old tap dancer. That’s about all we need to know to find out she’s going to Vegas, despite Howard telling her no. Ogreish, but honest and right.

Jacob Williams would like to be a stand up comedian. Or do someone’s taxes. Though he seems very awkward at first and is greeted by not the friendliest of audiences, he turns out to be funny.

787 Crew is a dance crew from Puerto Rico. Buying plane tickets to the States pays off, as it looks like they’ll be one of the top dance acts this season.

Trish Paytas has squeezed herself into a pink outfit about 6 sizes too small so that she can hit on Howard. She admits she’s not talented, as long as he’ll give her a hug.

Mark Ofuji is a comedian who claims to do impressions. His thick accent makes it clear none of these will be remotely recognizeable, and it doesn’t help that he does Al Pacino as James Bond.

Mary Joyner is a singer whose parents are Olympic medalists Al Joyner and Florence Griffith-Joyner. Her emotional performance shows her as a talented singer.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 11, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on NBC.

Andrew de Leon topped off America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 8 with a surprising opera performance. Tonight we return back to Tampa.

The Miami All Stars made the top 10 last year, and this year they bring with them child dancing group The Untouchables. Most of the kid groups get through on being cute, but these guys have the talent to back it up. Howard warns them puberty is the enemy.

Puppet on Hand have worms on sticks and kazoos. Standing ovation from Howie, who’s apparently auditioning to be an American Idol judge.

The judges ask for some pirates, which they receive. Captain Dan & The Scurvy Crew are a pirate rap crew. So many things wrong with this.

Louann Bess has a water skiing squirrel named Twiggy who pees on Nick. Entertaining to see one time, but not enough for the judges to let him show off his other water talents.

American BMX Stunt Team is a group of guys on bikes plus a guy on a scooter and another one on inline skates. Even with just the one ramp, still worth watching.

Lindsey Norton is an acrobatic dancer and a bit of a contortionist. Most dancers save their tricks, but most of her routine is tricks, combining with her (even if some might be annoyed by it) perky personality to create a fun performance.

Big Barry is a 4’10” singer. But not a good one. Is this really how we’re ending the show? It’s not even comically bad. Just ordinary run of the mill bad. But Howie and Howard are letting him go to Vegas anyway.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 10, which airs Monday at 8/7c on NBC.

Austin proved to be a breath of fresh air in America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 7. I don’t think we saw the season’s winning act, but for a change there was a lot of challenge to choose from. Tonight the auditions continue in Austin.

Aurora Light Painters make pictures using lights. Interesting enough I suppose, but not as much as Joe Castillo from day 1.

The Doppelganger Circus Sideshow are freaks in love. Howard promptly buzzes them before seeing anything. The guy puts an apple in his girlfriend’s mouth, then gets out a chainsaw to carve the letter H in the apple. She doesn’t get injured from the saw, but her mouth is dislocated because the apple is too big.

Eric and Olivia are a musical duo (she sings and he plays guitar) from the University of Texas. Everybody wants them to be a couple. She’s a decent singer… but I don’t know what purpose he serves other than to secretly have a crush on her. Howie thinks it’s too loungie, but the other two love them.

Richard Grossman is a terrible opera singer. He can appreciate that people don’t like him, but he doesn’t appreciate people being rude to him by telling him he sucks.

Eric Dittleman is a mind reader. He has the judges draw something while he’s blindfolded. I don’t think anyone’s buying that he can read minds, but he does correctly identify the drawings.

Andrew de Leon feels like an outsider because he’s a vampire. Though at first glance he looks like he will be singing death punk rock, he surprises the audience with some opera. Nobody’s ever heard him sing before, but he has managed to teach himself really well.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 9, which airs Monday at 8/7c on NBC.

Escape artist Spencer Horsman was a rare bright spot in America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 6. Tonight the auditions head to Austin.

Sebastien de la Cruz is the 10 year old singer for mariachi band Sebastien “El Charro de Oro”. He’s focusing on his music, rather than worrying about the ladies. The sacrifice has paid off.

Bandaz Brothers are acrobats from Iran, who have been doing circus work since childhood. One of them balances on a pole in the other’s mouth. Then he does a headstand on his brother’s head, all the while looking frighteningly shaky.

Timothy Michael Poe was hit by a grenade in Afghanistan, which has left him with a brain injury and a resulting stutter, but that won’t stop him from singing and playing his guitar. His speech pathologist suggested he sing in the shower, which led him to find out that he doesn’t stutter when he sings, and he turned out to be a good country singer.

Lulu is a morbidly obese pole dancer who walks out on stage in a bikini. There have been some very good and/or hot pole dancers on this show. She is neither, but Howie lets her continue after the other two buzz her. So of course this is my opportunity to fast forward Nick acting like an idiot.

Joe Castillo uses light and sand to tell stories to music. His patriotic art strikes a chord with the crowd.

David “The Bullet” Smith, Jr. is a human cannonball. He’s still scared every time, 15 years later. Interesting to watch (in spite of the edit pretending he’s injured) but… what do you do for the quarterfinals?

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 8, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

More lackluster acts greeted us in America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 5. Moving on to St. Louis.

Tom Bonham is a puppeteer. Nick’s sock puppets are better. Still, Howie is a fan.

Isaac Brown is a 6 year old singer and dancer. It doesn’t matter what his performance is, though, as his personality quickly wins over the audience.

Spencer Horsman is the world’s youngest escape artist. Tonight, rather than being tied up by Howard, he’s tied up by Nick. He has a minute and 20 seconds to escape from his straight jacket before being caught by a human sized rat trap.

Lin Doak is known as Little Ozzy. His terrible performance gets him booed by everybody in the audience other than Sharon.

The Cut Throat Freak Show & Eric Odditorium is a sideshow act with broken beer bottles. One of them jumps on the glass, then does a handstand on it. Then the other one lifts a chair using his eyelids. They finish with some sword swallowing.

Ron Christopher Porter, Jr. has a dream. He wants to do movie trailer voiceovers. Howard is confused how this is an act. He also cannot announce the acts that are going to be coming on stage because that’s what Nick does. Oh. So that’s what Nick does?

Curtis Cutts Bey will round out the night with stupid singing and bad dancing. Now we see what else Nick does. Prolong the worst acts and beat them into the ground.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 7, which airs Monday at 8/7c on NBC.

A couple of good acts greeted us in America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 4, as we saw comedian Tom Cotter and aerial act Donovan & Rebecca. Tonight the auditions head to Tampa.

Inspire the Fire is a singing and dancing troupe that hopes to reach out to the youths in the streets. Their story’s a lot better than their performance, but they’re strong enough as singers and/or dancers that the crowd loves them.

NC Bikini Bombshells walk out on stage and immediately get a standing ovation. They should have just stood there and looked cute because their attempt to dance blows it.

All That is a clogging group. They grew up competing in clogging competitions. I’ll take their word that’s a real thing. Cool for what it is.

Michael Griffin is an escape artist, a skill he learned when his brother would tie him up. He’s the only human to survive a hanging. His trick for today is to have Howard tie 35 feet of rope around him any way he likes. The unimpressed judges buzz him.

The Distinguished Men of Brass is a brass marching band. They lost their jobs at an amusement park, so they decided to form a band and make a living that way. Howie has fun, and Sharon adores them.

Ulysses makes sure his Don King hair is good to go before he comes out on stage and sings the theme from Loveboat. Howard buzzes because it’s fun but not a million dollar act. Neither Green Acres nor The Addams Family are enough for Howard, but the other judges are sending him to Vegas.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 6, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.