America’s Got Talent July 8, 2008 Recap
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America’s Got Talent July 8, 2008 Recap
Once again on a Tuesday night in the summer, we sit down and turn on our local NBC affiliate network to tune into America’s Got Talent. We see Judges Sharon Osbourne, Piers Morgan and David Hasselhoff critic and banter with the contestants.
This week on America’s Got Talent is the 4th episode of the season in which we attempt to answer that simple question. Does American Got Talent? Sometimes YES and most often times NO!
The show starts off as the America’s Got Talent Crew is filming from back Atlanta, Georgia. First to be introduced the Billy Dodson a 29-year-old health inspector. Billy Dodson’s performing talent is singing opera in which his High Pitched VOICE results in 3 X’s and boo’s from the audience. The Got Talent judges suggested Billy Dodson sing like a man.
Alexandra Pauls is 10-years-old and has a dad with crazy facial hair named Dean. They do a fast paced fight routine with Alex screaming and round housing her dad in the face and doing back flips everywhere. It’s like an ‘80s action movie starring a preteen. Piers doesn’t think her talent would make a good act, but Sharon and Hasselhoff say yes.
19-year-old waitress Sarah Lenore has been singing since she was four-years-old. She plays guitar while singing Carrie Underwood’s “Before He Cheats” and is absolutely fantastic. The Atlanta audience cheers and she is on her way to Vegas.
Also on to Vegas is Flambeaux, who lights the stage aflame before breathing and eating and even wearing fire. Joining him on the trip is pole-dancing Nichole and a group of dancers doing an African routine.
SQ Entertainment is a group of like a dozen or more cousins who do a high energy, hip-hop dancing and tumbling routine. The whole family is on to the next round.
At this point we are shown auditions from New York. The James Gang are a quartet of guys dressed in newsies outfits, and they come out to perform first. They do an entertaining and creative hip-hop routine that’s reminiscent a little of Outkast with the way it combines an old fashioned style of song and dance with a modern sensibility. They are on their way to Vegas.
11-year-old Victoria Jacoby tells us that she was adopted from China, and her very proud mother tells us that her talent absolutely astounds the rest of her family. Her talent is contortion and the audience and judges are impressed by her amazing flexibility. She even drinks from a glass held by her feet while bending over backward. The judges deem her fantastic and send her on to Vegas.
Delivery driver Matt Bonowitz and his wife Elaine claim to be the number one polka dancers in the world. They call their act Polka Today and proceed to do a poor routine that gets them three buzzes from the judges within seconds. After the judges ridicule them, Polka Today are sent on their way.
Other bad acts include a nerdy looking older gentleman who sings and bounces around, a ventriloquist who doesn’t close his mouth, a bad opera singer dressed like Velma Kelly from Chicago, and a girl who jumps on glass while rapping. One woman sings “Dancing in the Street” even after being completely buzzed off, until Hasselhoff goes on stage and dances her off.
Harlem’s own, Kyle Rifkin, a 36-year-old R&B singer who lets us know that music saved his life. He sings “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” by the Temptations which brings the audience to its feet, clapping and singing along. Kyle Rifkin is on his way to Las Vegas.
So Who has Talent on America’s Got Talent? Who did you like, who did you hate. Comment Below!!
