Oh, America’s Got Talent, how I tire of you! I commit four weeks (a whopping eight hours) of my life to your semifinals, watching you pare the field from close to 60 contestants down to eight, and how do you repay me? You perpetrate the unspeakable: trotting out 10 also-rans for a ”wild-card” episode. If ”that ain’t right” ever scores a Webster’s entry, here’s hoping your photo accompanies it. In fact, in response to the crap-travaganza you presented last night, here’s a list of three new rules I think you should be forced to follow:
1. No more contestants under the age of 10, if only to prevent potential prodigies like 8-year-old Natasha Le (pictured) from spouting beyond-her-years bon mots like ”I’m not actually just a cute girl in a pink dress — I can really play the piano!” Back to the local recital circuit with ya, precious!
2. Stop praising painfully bad acts, like vocal trio N’Versity. I’ll wager my lunch money that America would rather listen to me pureeing nails in a blender than be subjected to their huffing, off-key rendition of ”My Prerogative.” And I don’t know what Brandy was talking about when she said the girls listened to her advice on adopting more age-appropriate attire; the lead singer’s denim skirt was so short, I could almost see her hoo-hoo.
3. Cut the performance episodes to one hour. Amusing as it was to see Leonid the Magnificent spin a hula hoop off his bum-bum (clad in chartreuse tiger-stripe hot pants, no less) the overly long repartee between the misguided Eastern European and the judges was far less amusing than the show’s producers probably thought it was.
All that aside (pun intended), if underrated magician Nathan Burton loses the audience vote tonight, I promise you’ll get an According to Jim mini-Watch in next week’s blog. Am I totally right, or do you see someone else advancing to the finals tonight?
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While Nathan Burton was definitely in the top two, I am SO hoping that All That win the audience vote. So talented and that’s no trick!
‘So You Think You Can Dance’ dominates this show (sometimes in ratings, always in entertainment) every day of the week. Maybe NIGEL is the real brains behind American Idol… Not Mr. Cowell?
Please have been bluffing about the According to Jim mini watch. I agree that Nathan should have won the night, but don’t punish us for the audience’s poor taste!
Is that the same Nathan Burton who has a show in Las Vegas? Isn’t that kind of cheating?
All That got the judges vote in.
Nathan Burton was in the top two with the quick change act and was totally robbed. He is so good and deserved to be in the finale. These quick change people, while good, just plain suck and only got on because of the sympathy vote thanks to Piers Morgan calling them dumb and stupid, which in my opinion, they are.
Nathan Burton was also on the show “The Entertainer” on E (you know, the Wayne Newton show). Has anyone else caught that?
The Quick Change Artists deserved to go through. I am glad they won. They were my favorite act, if only because I have no idea how they do it. As for Burton, he is entertaining, but some of his dialogue is a little cheesy. Plus, there was the sympathy vote for Quick Change Artists. If Piers Morgan had kept his mouth shut instead of going on that rant against them, they would not have gotten as many sympathy votes.
You are only allowed 10 votes per house and I put all 10 votes to Quick Change Artists this week. I like them and I felt they got the “short end of the stick” with Piers.
Replace Piers Morgan! I hate him and do not respect his critiques. (Which is saying a lot being on the same panel as Brandy and David H.!)
Ratings show Americas Got Talent beats Dance in the ratings every week.
So You Think You Can Dance is the superior show however.
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