The seventh season of America’s Got Talent ended its excruciatingly long season by giving $1 million to an act that was not a medicore singer like it has every other season. Instead, it went to a mediocre animal act, Olate Dogs. Truly a shocking ending! The runner-up wasn’t even a singer: it was comedian Tom …
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It feels like it’s week 182 of America’s Got Talent, the show that drags on even longer than its inexplicably long pauses. Last week I timed how long Nick Cannon waited between saying he was going to announce a result and actually doing it: 42 seconds of dead air. This is a show with no …
An NBC executive told America’s Got Talent judge Howard Stern not to talk about Jay Leno, and Howard has predictably responded by saying, “Fuck Jay. Take my job away from me; who cares.” On Monday’s radio show, Howard discussed layoffs at The Tonight Show, and said, among other things, that Jay is a “spineless maggot.” …
America’s Got Talent judge Sharon Osbourne is quitting the NBC reality series over the network’s treatment of her son, Jack, which she says is discriminatory because they rejected him as a contestant on Stars Earn Stripes because of his multiple sclerosis. When Sharon first said she was quitting, she said only that it was because …
This morning, Sharon Osbourne said on Twitter that she is not returning to judge America’s Got Talent for its eighth season, a response to a tweet from the Howard Stern Show saying Howard may not return. Sharon didn’t give a reason other than to say it wasn’t about money, as Howard had suggested. This morning, …
America’s Got Talent‘s fraudulent auditioner has overshadowed Howard Stern’s debut as a judge, but what if the show itself wasn’t exactly honest with us about the nature of the audition process? One act that auditioned for this season claims the process is “rigged,” with results pre-determined and the audience coached to support that outcome. It’s …
America’s Got Talent auditioner Tim Poe, a singer from San Antonio, said he was injured by a grenade in Afghanistan and suffered a brain injury. But the military said there’s no record of him being injured while he was in Afghanistan for a month. On the show, he received a standing ovation and was sent …