While I was watching "America's Got Talent" last night, a hopeful contestant vying for a ticket to Las Vegas stopped me cold in my tracks. It's not because the aspiring comedian's "talent" -- fairly entertaining impersonations of Freddy Kruger and Al Pacino -- was hilarious, or by any means worthy of the $1 million prize. It's because of the terribly unfunny thing judge Howie Mandel said in response to the contestant, a 52-year-old Asian man named Mark Ofuji.
By way of backstory, Ofuji describes himself as a "massage therapist" and comedian, telling the cameras before his audition, "When I do impersonations of celebrities, people are amazed." His stand-up routine was kind of crazy and rambling, and instantly received two Xs from judges Howard Stern and Sharon Osbourne. But Mandel, a comedian himself, was intrigued.
"It was Al Pacino. It was uncanny, because it was amazing," Mandel said, while the other judges deliberated.
By way of backstory, Ofuji describes himself as a "massage therapist" and comedian, telling the cameras before his audition, "When I do impersonations of celebrities, people are amazed." His stand-up routine was kind of crazy and rambling, and instantly received two Xs from judges Howard Stern and Sharon Osbourne. But Mandel, a comedian himself, was intrigued.
"It was Al Pacino. It was uncanny, because it was amazing," Mandel said, while the other judges deliberated.
- 6/25/2012
- by Youyoung Lee
- Aol TV.
It's almost time to head off to Las Vegas for, you know, the actual competition part of America's Got Talent, but first, more auditions, and with the exception of closing act Mary Joyner, there was very little to write home about.
The Montage of Horror
Smoochie the Pig got things started with a painfully boring routine that Sharon Osbourne overwhelmingly loved for reasons that remain entirely unclear to me. Smooch just didn't seem to be all that excited about honking the horns. She sure loved Nick Cannon's popcorn though.
Let's seen, during the segment of unnamed horrors, there was a terrible dance troupe, an awkward ballerina, Nick Cannon in a tutu, and a female rapper who claimed to rap about "female empowerment" but basically just encouraged attractive women to become prostitutes. I briefly entertained the thought that maybe the unnamed Mc's song about using your body to get all...
The Montage of Horror
Smoochie the Pig got things started with a painfully boring routine that Sharon Osbourne overwhelmingly loved for reasons that remain entirely unclear to me. Smooch just didn't seem to be all that excited about honking the horns. She sure loved Nick Cannon's popcorn though.
Let's seen, during the segment of unnamed horrors, there was a terrible dance troupe, an awkward ballerina, Nick Cannon in a tutu, and a female rapper who claimed to rap about "female empowerment" but basically just encouraged attractive women to become prostitutes. I briefly entertained the thought that maybe the unnamed Mc's song about using your body to get all...
- 6/19/2012
- by MaryAnn Sleasman
- Aol TV.
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