A completely random thought exercise. No real meaning to it at all.

Which celebrities in the past world win America's Got Talent, or their equivalent? I was thinking Robin Williams, who would pretty much cruise through it, and Houdini maybe. The Beatles? Elvis? I go back and forth on Mel Blanc, because, and no offense to our pony VAs, he was far and away the best voice actor who ever was, but I don't know what his act world be.

Anyway. Like I said: totally random.

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[Super Trampoline]

Bach writes fugues on the spot.

Oh and the Nicholas Brothers. Absolutely. Fucking legends.

[Herrpface]

[Super Trampoline]

Also there’re so fucking many great jazz pianists I would have loved to have seen. https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/best-jazz-pianists/

[Booster Spice]

Keep your eyes on Deep Fakes. thers been demonstrations of motion builds from just a few static images, and the base phoneme speech can be got from the right sentence.

Think of one Deep Fake taking a single image, and generating a 3D body from it, then the animation Deep Fake taking that and moving it round to whatever body style learnt from TV, Movies, Animation or even yet another Movement DeepFake.

Mel Blanc verses Frank Welker. Goof Off.

[Georg]

The setting matters a great deal in this. One of the absolute greatest comedians of all times was Johnathan Winters, who all of his peers said did not have an off switch. They'd sit around for hours while waiting for their scenes to shoot in movies while Johnathan would riff and vamp to the point where they said they could have broken a rib. Get him up on stage, though, and it could be hit-or-miss. (I'd still pay a rib of my own to have sat in on just one of those sessions)

There are so many stage personalities gone away to pick from: Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Rodney Dangerfield, Tim Conway and Harvey Korman (because they're a pair), Don Rickles "Mr. Warmth" and Sid Caesar... I feel old, suddenly. I'm going to go with John Pinette, who was taken from us far too soon. He's funny, and can act, starred in Hairspray (so he can sing too). He's larger than life. And pretty large in life too.

[Bronzedragon]

Victor Borge and Red Skelton. Two different styles of comedy, both Masters of the craft.

[Scarheart]

All the replies are very good!

I got nuthin'.

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[tyrantnyx]

Tiny Tim

[Flynt Coal]

It would appear that your phone/computer doesn't know that "would" is a real word lol. And I think Bruce Lee would pull out some crazy moves for it

[BronyWriter]

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[Flynt Coal]

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Which celebrities in the past world win America's Got Talent, or their equivalent? I was thinking Robin Williams, who would pretty much cruise through it, and Houdini maybe. The Beatles? Elvis? I go back and forth on Mel Blanc, because, and no offense to our pony VAs, he was far and away the best voice actor who ever was, but I don't know what his act world be.

[destinysWalrus]

I've got no particular opinion on who *would* win America's Got Talent for past celebrities, partly just because I don't watch it much, and my sister and I think that too many singers get on when there's other shows just for singing. But the other part is because we prefer Britain's Got Talent, where the wackier acts tend to last longer than on America's.

My sis and I have the potentially-odd perspective that we don't care so much about if something is objectively good, so long as it entertains us. Which means we tend to favor such acts as the Crumble Lady, and the Tambourine man.

[Herald of Opera]

Abbott and Costello.