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Finally, Michael Finney offers a sensible viewpoint on this terrible showcase for magic acts – America’s Got Talent<\/a>.\nI will let him describe it in his own words:
\n(Credited from the most recent newsletter of\u00a0 Alan Watson’s” Magic New Zealand\u00ae<\/a> – Issue Number: #951<\/em>.” Not sure where his comments originally appeared.)<\/p>\n
\u00a0I would like to add my two cents worth on the AGT show, and magicians<\/em> performing, simply stated the show is a joke. Of all the shows like it “The<\/em> Voice”, “Idol”, “Dancing with the\u00a0 Stars” etc, AGT is the worst, How can<\/em> anyone take that show seriously, other than Terry Fator.<\/em><\/p>\n You compete against a potpourri of hit and miss acts, most of which could<\/em> not do a Las Vegas act, period. Little kids and animals competing against<\/em> adults should tell you something. I feel for my friends who have gone on and<\/em> been subjected to judges who are not qualified to judge acts under this<\/em> format.\u00a0 Some will say they got some TV time, which most have already had in<\/em> one way or another. I did Star Search back in the day, at least then you<\/em> were going up against other acts doing what you did. But even then the best<\/em> acts hardly ever won! It’s all about rating’s. It’s all about controversy<\/em> and how rude the judges can be to acts.\u00a0 Many of the acts should never have<\/em> gotten on the show in the first place, that’s what makes AGT a joke from the<\/em> get go!<\/em><\/p>\n Right on Michael! I know so many professional magician friends (who where once on the top of their game with top tv spot time) trying to still cling on to stardom for a bit longer by appearing on the show. But they just end up embarrassing themselves.<\/p>\n Fellow local magician from Orlando, Florida (where I grew up) Dan Stapleton was made a total ass of with the taping of his act on AGT (and he voiced his thoughts about this publicly within the industry after the fact, in fairness to him…).<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KoL2_xSpxL8<\/p>\n Magic is an art and deserves respect to be showcased properly. And AGT isn’t that showcase.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Finally, Michael Finney offers a sensible viewpoint on this terrible showcase for magic acts – America’s Got…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,29],"tags":[33,34,31,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"category-other-magicians","8":"tag-agt","9":"tag-americas-got-talent","10":"tag-other-magicians-2","11":"tag-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}