#amercia's got talent

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Bun and Roses - Dance Precisions (2014)

Choreographed by Molly Long

[daloy-politsey]

LONG POST AHEAD.

This is about how a show I went to see ended up having a lot of transmisogyny in it.

Several months ago, my family bought tickets to Terry Fator. You may know him as the ventriloquist who won the second season of Amercia’s Got Talent. Well, tonight we got to see the show and the first few segments were enjoyable, but then he brought in this puppet that is one of his own characters (Some of the puppets are based off of real people. Some are his own characters.). This character was a country star, and he sang George Strait’s All My Exes Live in Texas, but he changed the words to “All my exes are both sexes”. Before singing this, he talked about how there’s a lot of “gender confusion”. In this song, he made fun of how trans people don’t know what bathroom to use, and said that he puts his hat over a woman’s crotch area to see “if she is really a he” (so he can see what type of genitals she has, because a vagina doesn’t get a boner that stretches out like an erect penis).

A few segments later we get another one of his characters. This one is a woman. At one point, Terry asks her if she ever got plastic surgery. Then he asks her what she looked like before surgery. Then on the screen there appears a picture of Caitlyn Jenner pre transition with Wheaties. The image has over it the words “Bruce Jenner”.

Now, because I know someone is going to say “OMG. THIS SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR WANTS TO PUT THIS GUY OUT OF WORK”, I’m going to say no. That is not what I want to do, because hopefully he will learn why what he is doing is wrong. Trans people have high rates of suicide, unemployment, homelessness, and poverty. They have people in power making legislation that makes their lives harder. Jokes like these only add to that stigmatization. Performers and artists should be part of the solution to the many problems we face in society, not be part of the problem.

I want this to go viral. Go share this on Facebook. @ Terry Fator on Twitter. Write him a letter, because I did some googling and see that there are only a couple of people who have publicly written about what I said here and neither of them talk about it in detail as much as I have and neither of their writings have gone viral.

Please send a message to all performers that transmisogyny and transphobia are not okay.

[sueboohscorner]

#TheGoodPlace Season 1

It was last season most clever, funniest and well written new show, if you haven't seen the first season of The Good Place, here's a bit of a recap.

The Good Place is when Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell), who awakes and is welcomed to the afterlife by Michael (Ted Danson), she learns that she died when she was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer that was carrying a billoard for erectile dysfunction products. Michael is the faclitator and architect of this new neighborhood in a utopia called "The Good Place."

Michael tells Eleanor she made it into the Good Place for helping clients get off death row and also other international humanitarian work but she realizes that she's been mistaken for someone else whom she later finds out that she has the same name. While in The Good Place, Eleanor learns that when you entered you have a soulamte with whom she or he is matched that's accordingly upon arrival she or he will live for enternity.

Hoping to stay in The Good Place, Eleanor must hide her imperfect behavioral past from everyone and asked her soulmate, Chidi Anagonye (William Jackson Harper), a university ethics professor in life. He agrees to teach Eleanor to become a better person and aviod going to The Bad Place.

Along with that, she interacs wth the people in The Good Place like Tahani Al-Jamil (Jameela Jami), a wealthy philanthripist who decicated her life helping poor people and raise billions just to prove her parents she can do better than her sister. Tahani's soulmate, Jianyu Li (Manny Jacinto), a slient Buddhist monk from Taiwan, but really is another mistaken mishap for someone else, like Eleanor, who happens to be a DJ named Jason Mendoza from Florida.

Throughout the episode, Eleanor, Chidi and Jianyu/Jason tries to keep their serect from Michael but everything from flying shrimp, giant bugs, and massive sinkhole and even Michael quiting his job, just puts the pressue for Eleanor. So she decided to announce that she wasn't the Eleanor they thought they had. So Michael get to the bottom of it, goes through records and then gives Eleanor questions about what good things she has done in the real world, which were none.

Micheal calls Trevor, the man from The Bad Place, about this situation and that they have the other Eleanor over there. As Travor brings other Eleanor, the real Eleanor after watching how Chidi and the other Eleanor work well together decides to go, but a change of mind comes from Michael and hoping for some kind of an agreement. That lead for Sean to come, Sean is the Eternal Judge of The Good Place, but as he comes, both Eleanor, Jianyu/Jason and Janet, the Good Place version of Siri, steals the train and heads to the Middle Place.

Trevor hears Michael, Chidi and Tahani's plea to keep Eleanor in The Good Place, but they must do it without showing any emotion for else Trevor goes into a coccoon. After hearing from them, he puts a warning out to Eleanor if they don't come back two of her friends will take their place, for which Eleanor returns but misses the deadline. 

She makes a plea to go but Trevor wants another person too. After everyone argues who's going and who's staying it turned into a one big torture until Eleanor probably figured out the greatest, most shocking moment in this television season. She figures out something and calls Trevor and Michael out and tells them that her and Chidi will go and for the moment Michael and Trevor were stun for a moment, until Eleanor tells the gang that this isn't The Good Place but The Bad Place and with Michael's face turning from shock to a weaselly grin, he finaly admits it. And tells all how he came up with the idea and how everything was all staged from the beginning. 

Soon, Michael and Trevor went out and talked about redoing it all over again and fixing the mixup. Before Michael came back, Eleanor tries to write a message for herself and place it in Janet's mouth. As Michael comes back in, Eleanor tells him to do his worst but she will and by that time Michael snaps his fingers and we are back to square one with Eleanor meeting Michael again this time different. But soon after going through all the introductions of The Good Place, meeting her home and soulmate, she gets a visit from Janet with her message that she left for herself to tell her to find Chidi, but first she needs to know what's a Chidi. 

This was literally one of the best new shows of last season. The writing and the performances from this cast was beyond amazing. There's so much chemistry with this cast it can't be denied that they are irresistible. With what I was proceed with what the episodes were going, I literally didn't see that final moment in the season finale to be what it turly would be. Shocked to the core yelling "What the fork!" many times during and after it aired. 

I can't wait for the season two to begin to see where these characters will go. It may seem the same but the game has changed. 

If you haven't seen The Good Place, you can catch the first season on Netflix now or the NBC App. You can catch the special one hour season premiere Wednesday, Sept. 20th at 10/9c after Amercia's Got Talent Season Finale and catch them on it's regular night and time Thursday, Sept. 28th at 8:30/7:30c on NBC.

[robin674]

TheHelloBaden Show Entertainment News

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Here are some of my favorite evening Comedy shows . Will & Grace, The Good Place, Supper Store, and Great News. they all four get a 20+ from me. My favorite are This Is US, The Black List, and Blind Spot. all three of those gets a 20+ from me. My other favorite Shows are Amercia’s Got Talent , The Voice, World Of Dance. these three all recive a30+ from me. Now for my favorite Late Night T.V Shows…

[ccandydolls]

update: its 11pm and im sitting in the living room watching amercias got talent

[unfruchtbar-blog]

Imagine Jensen and Jared doing this

[skynohoshi]

すごい！

[waterfish5678901]

FAITH IN HUMANITY RESTORED

THEY WENT HOME. NO MORE BOOTY SONG. THANK GOD. THANK YOU HUMANITY.

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[demographickadmin]

THE BETTER BE WINNERS OF AMERICA'S GOT TALENT 2011!

[lizzielucia]

Stealing the show!

America's got talent highlighting why shows like this can make my day. 3 little boys bring a smile to everyone's face!

[waterfish5678901]

Why is the Booty song on AGT so popular?

The song is stupid, it isn't catchy or "cool" it's a song about butts. And the "singer" is obnoxious and a creep, the song is offending to everyone and should not have made it this far on America's Got Talent. Hoping they get eliminated, 1/3 chance they go through, 2/3 they go home. Hope it's the latter.