Originally Posted By Rsey103 Can you imagine what might have come out of Wanda's mouth when those two fools fell off the stage?
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 What a great idea, Rsey103! Wanda would be wonderful in that role! (I have to say, though, that while I can do without his "bad-guy" schtick, I do appreciate Piers' candor.) After watching only the first episode of this season, I already think the guy who sang the Sarah Maclaughlin song is going to be the winner this year. That "light-up" group was cool, too. Amazing technology! Darn those Stanley Cup Finals for preventing us from watching/DVR'ing tonight's episode!
Originally Posted By magic0214 I hate how the winner is always a singer. This is a talent competition, so it should be for other acts too. Persoanlly, I love the parrot lady and I truely feel bad for Double Dream Hands guy. He is my favorite and shouldn't of been booed!
Originally Posted By Labuda "I hate how the winner is always a singer." Didn't Jeff Dunham come from that show, I thought? Like season 1 wayyyyyy back when?
Originally Posted By tashajilek I agree about the singers, thats what American idol is for. I would love to see an interesting act for Vegas this year.
Originally Posted By Labuda Ok, wait... my bad, the ventroliquist winner was season 2, and not Jeff Dunham, but a dude from Texas.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 Now that you mention it -- and especially given the new presence of "The Voice" -- AGI might be a whole lot more interesting if it didn't include singers!
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Impressed, but not sure how it translates to a Vegas show (i.e. how many times could he do that?! How do you make a feature-length show out of that?) I've thought for the last couple of years that some of the more compelling-yet-limited acts like that should BAND TOGETHER and create their own Vegas show and call it "The Best of AGT" or something like that. You couldn't watch a guy belly flop for 90 minutes, but you could watch him AND THEN the bike stunt guys AND THEN the knife throwers... you get the idea.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 What do we know about the "Headlining a show in Las Vegas" prize, anyhow? Does the winner get an hour-and-fifteen-minutes stage show all to him/her/them self? Or is the AGT winner just the featured performer in a multi-act review? For how long does this show run? Six weeks? or all year until the next AGT performer is named? or what? Dabob, if this isn't already being done, I think you're on to something... Why not take the top ten (or eight or whatever) acts and make them the resident performers of a one-year "America's Got Talent!" stage show rotation in Vegas? Kind of like the Idol's summer tour. Except this one would have more variety. And an overall higher level of talent. And it wouldn't tour -- people would come to IT.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. I don't think they do that now; they just give the winner a show in LV (and the ventriloquist winner from a few seasons back still has his show running in LV AFAIK), and then they're sort of on their own. They can try to stay in Vegas, go elsewhere, whatever. I just remember wondering last year if some of the acts that got to the top 10 or top 20, say, might think to hook up and get a steady gig together that they couldn't get on their own specifically because some of them really couldn't do a 90 minute show by themselves; but as part of a variety show it would be very entertaining.
Originally Posted By tashajilek The Belly flop guy was ok, but yea what else is there to see? HAHHA the guy who blew up hot water bottles, whats up with that lol.
Originally Posted By LadyKluck I agree mostly about not having so many dang singers on the show. I mean there's Idol & now The Voice, and some other shows for the pop/country singer wannabe folks, but I can see how AGT would be a good spring board for the opera singers, like the guy that one 2 seasons ago & the gal with the blonde braids that sang last week (I think). She was awesome & would never have a shot on something like Idol because of the type of music she sings.