Britain’s Got Talent… but America doesn’t
June 18, 2007 
Amidst the dredges of summer television programming is a mildly amusing reality talent competition called America’s Got Talent. The show features a variety of competitors trying to impress judges Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne, and David Hasselhoff. Oh, and somehow Jerry Springer is the show’s host.
The show, like many others recently, is a British import brought to us by American Idol’s Simon Cowell, who judges the show with Piers and a British actress named Amanda Holden.
Check out this clip from a 6-year-old singer on the British version of the show:
And now here’s a singer from the American version (see if you notice a difference in quality):
Here’s another British contestant, a mobile phone salesman, singing opera:
And back to the American version, with an example of some of the obscure “talent” entries we’ve had to endure so far:
And you thought the ending of the Sopranos finale was bad! Time to turn off my television and go outside…
