AGT

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(Does Simon Cowell spend all his time flying from back and forth from London to LA just judging shit?)

The seasons might be staggered to accommodate him. I think he's also still a music producer. Then, he's got his worldwide franchises to manage.

Guess Len did it on DWTS for a few years.

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Simon Cowell Didn’t See This Coming... And It Hit Him | BGT 2026

Swiss acrobats.
The women's costumer is also on mushrooms, nttawwt.

Holy Moley!

New US season.

I'm not a big fan of standup, but this French guy . . .

Kev Adams Has The Judges CRYING Laughing | Auditions | AGT 2026



They move the judges to the side . . . just in case. Millions of $$$ were at stake.

Holland & Sienna's Aerial Performance Has The Judges SCREAMING! | Auditions | AGT 2026



Mel B and Simon, especially, ought to know:

The CommUNITY ATL Choir Delivers Pure JOY With "Lovely Day" by Bill Withers | Auditions | AGT 2026

x a bunch

BRD favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7QEL4IqMfM

I wasn't expecting that. Canadian, too!

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BRD favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7QEL4IqMfM

I wasn't expecting that. Canadian, too!

Always vote for the dogs!

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BRD favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7QEL4IqMfM

I wasn't expecting that. Canadian, too!

Always vote for the dogs!

2018:

The "Misheard Lyrics" Act That Broke the Judges | Britain's Got Talent



He failed to reach the Semi-Finals.

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BRD favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7QEL4IqMfM

I wasn't expecting that. Canadian, too!

Always vote for the dogs!

AGT is shown Tuesday nights with a rerun on Fridays. Sneak preview of tonight's show:

Early Release: Olivia Befus’ Dancing Dogs STEAL The Show! | Auditions | AGT 2026
I'm sure they'll advance. Border collie/whippet mix - was that intentional?

Some that I've enjoyed this season:

Simon Cowell Says "I Love You" After Akira's Wild Audition! | Auditions | AGT 2026


Guy Kelton Jones I' Spoken Word Performance Gets An 11/10 From Simon Cowell! | Auditions | AGT 2026
That's as political as I've ever seen AGT get.

Bay Area, represent!
LaRussell's Crew Brings Pure Joy to the AGT Stage! | Auditions | AGT 2026

Nervous Aussie Singer Performs An INSANE Cover Nobody Expected.. RAYE Would Be PROUD!

Lara D (Lara Dabbagh) from Australia is a 23 year old singer who came to perform one of her favorite songs "Oscar Winning Tears" on America's Got Talent 2026, season 21, and woo.. she took it and made it her own - just listen!

She reminds me of Janis Joplin.

[GoCubsGo]

BRD favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7QEL4IqMfM

I wasn't expecting that. Canadian, too!

Always vote for the dogs!

AGT is shown Tuesday nights with a rerun on Fridays. Sneak preview of tonight's show:

Early Release: Olivia Befus’ Dancing Dogs STEAL The Show! | Auditions | AGT 2026
I'm sure they'll advance. Border collie/whippet mix - was that intentional?

Roni & Rhythm still win.

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Roni & Rhythm still win.

That's like saying Joe DiMaggio was better.

Another year, 2021:

They Told Her She Should QUIT Singing...Then She Did THIS!

2,407,004 views Feb 3, 2026
She Wrote an Original Song Using Only Hate Comments and Sang It On Live TV!

(00:00) Intro
(00:09) Madilyn Bailey - Hate Comments (Original Song) - AGT 2021 S16
(06:06) Semifinals - Red Ribbon (Original Song) - AGT 2021 S16

Did not go further.

Another venue:
The Girl Who Made BGT 2026 Feel Like a Fairy Tale | Niamh Noade
17 years old. 2 performances

Spoiler:

2nd in her semi, did not advance.

She made the final of The Voice Kids UK in 2023.

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Roni & Rhythm still win.

Catching up. Airs Tuesdays, reruns on Fridays.

Ever see these folks live? Chicago, represent!
The Jesse White Tumbling Team Audition | Week 5 | America's Got Talent 2026


Spanish parkour in 'da house!
Golden Buzzer: Rubén Roldán Gets The Moment Of A Lifetime From Simon Cowell | Auditions | AGT 2026


Maria Reveals A Mind-Bending Talent NOBODY Saw Coming! | Auditions | AGT 2026
Body-Bending, too

Golden Buzzer: Veronika Goroshkova’s Aerial Pole STUNS Sofia Vergara | Auditions | AGT 2026

Wow!

Phuket, Thailand, represent!
16-Year-Old Nene Royal Is Shy... Until She Starts Singing "Zombie" | Auditions | AGT


2024:
This Isn't an Audition– It's a FULL BLOWN Concert! Simon Had To Hit the Golden Buzzer


BGT 2026:
NO WAY! Judges Invite Old Man from the AUDIENCE On Stage to Audition (with grandson)!

[GoCubsGo]

Roni & Rhythm still win.

Catching up. Airs Tuesdays, reruns on Fridays.

Ever see these folks live? Chicago, represent!
The Jesse White Tumbling Team Audition | Week 5 | America's Got Talent 2026

Every person in Chicagoland has seen them live at one point or another.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_White_Tumbling_Team

The tumblers have appeared in the movies Heaven is a Playground, Ferris Bueller's Day Off,[4] and The Meteor Man. They have performed at the half time for every NBA team with the exception of the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Charlotte Hornets. They have also appeared in two presidential inaugural parades, for President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama.

The Jesse White Tumbling Team makes over 1,500 appearances each year, in state and out of state. They have gone to U.S. states as far as Hawaii, and have even made international performances. They have gone to Canada 17 times, Tokyo, Japan to appear on television, China for the Chinese New Year, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and Croatia.

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Every person in Chicagoland has seen them live at one point or another.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_White_Tumbling_Team

The tumblers have appeared in the movies Heaven is a Playground, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and The Meteor Man. They have performed at the half time for every NBA team with the exception of the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Charlotte Hornets. They have also appeared in two presidential inaugural parades, for President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama.

The Jesse White Tumbling Team makes over 1,500 appearances each year, in state and out of state. They have gone to U.S. states as far as Hawaii, and have even made international performances. They have gone to Canada 17 times, Tokyo, Japan to appear on television, China for the Chinese New Year, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and Croatia.

Sad news:

(Chicago's) Jesse White Tumbling Team Brings the HEAT With 92-Year-Old Jesse White | Quarterfinals | AGT 2026
Eliminated, even with Jesse as a prop.

Nene Royal CRUSHES "Hysteria" by Muse | Judges' Callbacks | AGT 2026

Nene Royal delivers serious rockstar energy with her cover of "Hysteria" by Muse! The sixteen-year-old from Phuket, Thailand wowed guest judge Nikki Glaser.

Howie advances her to the live quarterfinals.



Olivia Befus IMPRESSES Lele Pons With Her Dog Act! | Judges' Callbacks | AGT 2026
Sofia advances her to the quarterfinals.

Border Collie!

Olivia Befus And Her Dogs Light Up The Stage To “Runaway Baby” | Quarterfinals | AGT 2026
Live show, the home audience advances her to the semifinals.

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Every person in Chicagoland has seen them live at one point or another.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_White_Tumbling_Team

The tumblers have appeared in the movies Heaven is a Playground, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and The Meteor Man. They have performed at the half time for every NBA team with the exception of the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Charlotte Hornets. They have also appeared in two presidential inaugural parades, for President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama.

The Jesse White Tumbling Team makes over 1,500 appearances each year, in state and out of state. They have gone to U.S. states as far as Hawaii, and have even made international performances. They have gone to Canada 17 times, Tokyo, Japan to appear on television, China for the Chinese New Year, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and Croatia.

Sad news:

(Chicago's) Jesse White Tumbling Team Brings the HEAT With 92-Year-Old Jesse White | Quarterfinals | AGT 2026
Eliminated, even with Jesse as a prop.

Nene Royal CRUSHES "Hysteria" by Muse | Judges' Callbacks | AGT 2026

Nene Royal delivers serious rockstar energy with her cover of "Hysteria" by Muse! The sixteen-year-old from Phuket, Thailand wowed guest judge Nikki Glaser.

Howie advances her to the live quarterfinals.



Olivia Befus IMPRESSES Lele Pons With Her Dog Act! | Judges' Callbacks | AGT 2026
Sofia advances her to the quarterfinals.

Border Collie!

Olivia Befus And Her Dogs Light Up The Stage To “Runaway Baby” | Quarterfinals | AGT 2026
Live show, the home audience advances her to the semifinals.

I question the math about the tumbling team. Over 1500 appearances in a year is an average of over 4 a day. I doubt it.

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I question the math about the tumbling team. Over 1500 appearances in a year is an average of over 4 a day. I doubt it.

They're big, they have more than one troop and they can make multiple appearances in a day.

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They're big, they have more than one troop and they can make multiple appearances in a day.

I imagine you mean that each troop can make multiple appearances in a day. It's not like a 5 minute set during a halftime show will exhaust them. They could also perform at area schools, semi-pro games, carnivals, etc.

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They're big, they have more than one troop and they can make multiple appearances in a day.

I imagine you mean that each troop can make multiple appearances in a day. It's not like a 5 minute set during a halftime show will exhaust them. They could also perform at area schools, semi-pro games, carnivals, etc.

Correct, and they do.

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They're big, they have more than one troop and they can make multiple appearances in a day.

I imagine you mean that each troop can make multiple appearances in a day. It's not like a 5 minute set during a halftime show will exhaust them. They could also perform at area schools, semi-pro games, carnivals, etc.

Correct, and they do.

"question the math," SoupySales? Fine, but I question your showbiz knowledge and logic skills.



Veronika Goroshkova Delivers DAZZLING Aerial To “The Fate of Ophelia” | Quarterfinals | AGT 2026
Live show, the home audience advances her to the semifinals.



Nene Royal ROCKS OUT To "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden | Quarterfinals | AGT 2026
Advanced to Finals
She would have been 6 when the 26 December 2004 tsunami devastated her Phuket, perhaps too young to remember much. I'm happy she survived, as is the world.


AERIAL ROLLER SKATE Duo Stardust score Simon Cowell's GOLDEN BUZZER | Auditions | BGT 2024


Duo Stardust dangle BRUNO over SWORDS and FLAMES | Semi-Finals | BGT 2024
"Do not try this at home."
Eliminated in the Semi-Finals, Simon scorched them.
Trivia
Duo Stardust became the first act to receive five Golden Buzzers from the various Got Talent franchises in which they appeared (Lithuania, Britain, France, Czechoslovakia and USA).
Eliminated in the Quarterfinals of AGT.

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That's some dangerous roller skating stuff.

The first woman has a future with Cirque du Soleil.

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That's some dangerous roller skating stuff.

The first woman has a future with Cirque du Soleil.

She has a past and a present with Cirque du Soleil.

Veronika Goroshkova is originally from Mariupol, Ukraine, however she currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. Veronika Goroshkova specializes in aerial pole performance and she is currently a member of Cirque Du Soleil's Mad Apple production....

Mariupol, scene of some of the bloodiest war fighting.

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Shoulda known.

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This is pretty cool:

She Got The Crowd Singing In Unison! | Pub Choir | AGT

Instead of performing solo, Astrid Jorgensen conducts the whole AGT audience! Watch as the judges and audience sing along to "Africa" by Toto in perfect harmony.

... On August 5, 2025, it was announced that she would be part of the AGT live shows, in which she was scheduled to perform in quarterfinal week 4. However, on 25 August 2025, it was revealed that Jorgensen had dropped out of the competition for unknown reasons ...

Not a one hit wonder by a long shot, she created a new mode of mass entertainment.
How Astrid Jorgensen turned a suburban pub choir into a worldwide musical phenomenon

Astrid Jorgensen OAM (born 22 April 1990) is an Australian vocalist, conductor, composer and author. She is the founder and director of Pub Choir....

Pub Choir

In 2017 Jorgensen founded Pub Choir in West End, Brisbane. At each Pub Choir event, Jorgensen arranges a popular song and teaches it to a non-trained audience in three-part harmony, concluding with a performance which is filmed and shared on social media. Jorgensen utilises a unique form of musical notation incorporating colour-coded contoured text and comedic visual cues to teach at Pub Choir, so that musical literacy is not required for audience participation. Each show is improvised, with Jorgensen responding to the audience's progress in real-time. Pub Choir gained international attention in November 2017 when their rendition of "Zombie" by The Cranberries went viral online.

I can't find that version, but there's this memorial tribute to lead singer Dolores O'Riordan a few months later:

ZOMBIE (the Cranberries) - Pub Choir

361,388 views Feb 12, 2018
500 strangers gathered at the Elephant Hotel in Brisbane to say thanks and farewell to Dolores O'Riordan.

Pub Choir is a gathering of total strangers who learn a song by ear in 90 minutes in 3 part harmony. There is beer involved!

Filmed by Sleep Mountain Films (Paris Owen & Jacob Sosnowski)

Arranged and taught by Astrid Jorgensen and videoed with permission.

"There is beer involved!"

Couch Choir

In March 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent cancellation of planned Pub Choir events, Jorgensen launched "Couch Choir".... attracting tens of thousands of participants from over 50 countries.

I love these.
Chicago, etc:
Pub Choir - I Wanna Dance with Somebody

Well that was freaking cool…

So good to know these 80s songs will never die!

How do you manage to get the most wonderful, skilled, beautiful people at once?? Visually stunning, every person I had seen in each shot. Overwhelming love in the crowd.

I get chills every time I watch this video. Every time!

Many more comments.

We Belong (Pat Benatar) - sung by Pub Choir and 12,000+ strangers

Biggest ever live choir sings ‘Love Is In The Air’ (John Paul Young) in Brisbane

Kate Bush Heaps Praise On Australian Pub Choir After Their Incredible Cover Of Hit Song
Pub Choir sings 'Running Up That Hill' (Kate Bush)


Countless more Pub Choir vids online. I respect the diversity in song choices.

GoAstridGo!

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2025:
Loco Pop FamiliaDancing catsAmerica's Got Talent
They're so cute!
America's Got Talent Loco Pop FamiliaQuarterfinalDancing cats
Eliminated in the Quarterfinals. Purrrloined vote.

Simon STOPS (formerly) Homeless Singer Charity Lockhart But Second Song Earns GOLDEN BUZZER On AGT 2025!
The Beatles to the rescue!
Eliminated in the Quarterfinals. No Charity from the voters.

I generally don't like magic on TV, but . . .
The Judges LOSE IT When Mastermind Combines AI And Magic To Hack Howie Mandel's Phone! | AGT 2025

Quarterfinals: Mastermind Blends Technology & Mind-Blowing Magic For An Unbelievable Performance | AGT 2025
Mastermind advanced to the Semifinals, but had to withdraw from the competition for personal reasons. Shame, he might have won.

I generally don't like rap, but . . .
Mama Duke's Song "Feels So Good To Be You" Has The Judges On Their Feet! | AGT 2025

Mama Duke’s Finale Anthem “Open Your Eyes” Will Leave You SHOOK! | Finals | AGT 2025
Finalist, did not win