Lon, TV Show, America's Got Talent

Zeb Jackson · Post by **Zeb Jackson** » 21 Jun 2006 21:22

ShredOnLawn wrote:They cut me off about 1 minute into the song "Billy Jean" and I told them "Wait, it's a 3 minute audition and I haven't even bust out my big tricks yet!" and then I hit some great tricks and caught it on my neck and then in my hand behind my back.

Dropless
1.5 minutes.

They didn't like it.
I never got a call back.

Bummer.

Good experience though.

he posted this in his other thread about it, in the homework help forum
a long time ago

Kyle Hewitt · Post by **Kyle Hewitt** » 21 Jun 2006 21:25

Way to be a downer =( and Lon rocks everyones socks!

and don't listen to those asshats.... they don't know what talent is!

quadgun · Post by **quadgun** » 21 Jun 2006 21:37

ShredOnLawn wrote:I made it.

They're flying me down for the casting/shooting in Hollywood all next week.

Booyah

so is that out
cuz the other qoute is older

Zeb Jackson · Post by **Zeb Jackson** » 21 Jun 2006 21:40

wow, hmm i should have read on some more...nice find man

and i agree with what kyle says \/

Kyle Hewitt · Post by **Kyle Hewitt** » 21 Jun 2006 21:42

Kyle Hewitt wrote: I know what happens already but, I'll let Lon tell you.

smokefree · Post by **smokefree** » 21 Jun 2006 21:56

Just arrived home to see a rapping grandma on tv.... no lon???? wtf?

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 21 Jun 2006 22:01

Newbs...Lon was the rapping grandma!

smokefree · Post by **smokefree** » 21 Jun 2006 22:04

Maybe we should all register on the nbc AGT message boards and say we would of watched if they would of had a footbagger on there. (even though some did watch)

Kyle Hewitt · Post by **Kyle Hewitt** » 21 Jun 2006 22:17

and what would that do?

quadgun · Post by **quadgun** » 21 Jun 2006 22:37

it would increase our post count!

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 22 Jun 2006 05:52

Yay, 2 hours for glimpses of Lon in the crowd.

is anyone else bothered that the juggler that bitched and wasn't very good got chosen over the guy that was tearing it up with 5 ball?

ShredOnLawn · Post by **ShredOnLawn** » 22 Jun 2006 06:49

Well that was real let down.

I'm surprised at how little yall enjoyed the TV Show!

So, There were 60 Acts in this set of "auditions".

I met most of them. I hung out with the Horn Guy and Bernie the Striper and a little bit with Team Acrodunk.

There are 120 acts total.

26 aired last night.

I think there will be 7 more Wednesdays of "auditions" which may air me but probably not.

In order of appearance

1-Bobby Badfingers(Finger Snapist)

2-Horn Guy

3-Blue Velvet(Lounge Music)

4-Atlast(Hip Hopapella)

5-Sid the Kid

6-Kenny Shelton(Crappy Juggler)

7-Shadow Dancers

8-Bernie Mac(65 Year Old Stripper)

9-Alexis Jordan(14 Year Old Singer)

10-Eddie Haskell(Violin with a Saw)

11-Kevin Johnson(Ventriloquist)

12-Kathy Kavannah(Angelic Singer with Harp)

13-Eric Mol(Worst Impressionist)

14-Vladimir(Hand Balancing)

15-Team Acrodunk

16-Jay(Nose Flutist)

17-Betty Victor(76 Year Old Singer)

18-The Boofant Sisters(Goofy Remixed Soft Rock Duo)

19-Nathan Burton(World Class Juggler)

20-Holy Cow(Breakdancing in a cow suit)

21-Michael Speaks(Gospel Singer)

22-Vladic Miagslkdgose(Shirtless Juggler)

23-Wild Life Wendy(Talking Parot)

24-JR Jones(Dog Trainer)

25-"S" Frank Stringham(Baloon Twisting Singer Comedian)

26-Rappin Granny

Each Wednesday they will show more. I doubt I will have any air time.

I thuroughly enjoyed watching the show NOT LIVE.

I was shocked at how many of the stupid acts they showed.

They didn't even show the Tap Dancing Twins or the 8 year old Pianist or the Cigarette Magician or the Footbagger!!!

They can fit about 15 acts into each 1 hour show.
Over summer they may choose to show most of the 120 acts.

They never would explain how the show works because they didn't know until they finished making the first episode. I should be able to call and find out Friday.

I was glad to see so much excitement about this. Thanks for all the posts and all the support. Sorry I said I'd be on and I wasn't. My bad.

I like the show and will watch each episode. I'm excited to see what else is out there.

Yeah, don't blame me if you were NOT practicing footbag or studying for tests while you were watching. C'Mon people. Atleast stretch while you watch.

Peace

Oh yeah, Thanks for the picture. Whoever did that is clever.

sniper4life · Post by **sniper4life** » 22 Jun 2006 07:01

I personally thought the show was very funny. That cow man was great. Ventriloquist guy with the godzilla stuff was freakin amazing. I was wondering how this show works because at the beginning they said this was the one from California. Does that mean they go through major cities or is it just continued there?

shredzilla · Post by **shredzilla** » 22 Jun 2006 07:24

Eh, the show blew ass. It's just another lame ass reality show, except in this one a lot of the people actually DO have talent. And they're judged by Moesha, Baywatch dude, and some wanna be Simon Cowl(sp).

After seeing how bad it was, I'm almost kinda glad I didn't see Lon up there getting dissed by people who don't have any talent except for reading lines from a page.

david · Post by **david** » 22 Jun 2006 08:07

Moesha was the best thing on television from 1996-2001. All 127 episodes are little morsels of TV history that an idiot like you would know nothing about. If I ever hear you say that girl doesn't have talent again there will be a problem.

TwistedTorque · Post by **TwistedTorque** » 22 Jun 2006 08:28

Ya, I was very dissapointed after watching all 2 hours. I had moments of entertainment, but was let down that footbag didn't event get presented, but they put out 3 jugglers. I probably won't watch any future episodes (this was my first time watching TV in about 6 months-year) I would like it if someone would post if he does get on, I would like to see it.
Thanks for the screen shot of Lon sitting in the background.

quadgun · Post by **quadgun** » 22 Jun 2006 08:55

david wrote:Moesha was the best thing on television from 1996-2001. All 127 episodes are little morsels of TV history that an idiot like you would know nothing about. If I ever hear you say that girl doesn't have talent again there will be a problem.

holla!

Jorden · Post by **Jorden** » 22 Jun 2006 12:30

Sporatical_Distractions wrote:is anyone else bothered that the juggler that bitched and wasn't very good got chosen over the guy that was tearing it up with 5 ball?

No.

Actually, the world class juggler was Ivan Pecel. He's a pretty huge name in juggling. Either a current or recent world champion at bounce juggling. Definitely influenced me as a player. Seriously, check out some of his vids -- he's siiiick.

http://www.jugglingdb.com/videos/index. ... Ivan+Pecel

It's true he might've played it a bit too safe. This guy does deserve more respect than he was given though.

I think the whole premise of the show is flawed by its very nature. America's Got Talent show really be called America's Got Entertainment

If someone went on the show with a computer and typed 2000 words a minute while rapidly reciting digits of pi, that would be the most talented person ever in my books. Do you think the audience would even give a shit? Would that person last 3 seconds on "America's Got Talent"?

Yep -- flawed.

I've completely lost faith in North American TV.

Also, some acts simply require more time to engage and immerse the audience. 30 seconds or so is nothing, really. I really question if they could even BEGIN to perceive Lon's ability.

Guess we'll find out next time.

I did enjoy some of the acts. It's just the majority of people (including celebs) are too ignorant to understand what's hard and what isn't.

GO LON!!

Kyle Hewitt · Post by **Kyle Hewitt** » 22 Jun 2006 12:49

Nice speech Jordan!

Lazytowner · Post by **Lazytowner** » 22 Jun 2006 16:22

I gave up reality television years ago. I'll stick to my Scrubs and The Office.