I once sat at a talent show, where a kid dressed up like bob Ross, but with no hair. Like traditional bob Ross he brought a paint pallette and a easel, with his canvas. He proceeded to yell “what’s up losers, my name is rob boss.” Then took the paint palette and smashed it into the canvas, and started rubbing it around. After he took it off the painting looked like something you would see in a drug trip. He gave us a minute to look at the painting, before saying “now let’s beat the devil out of it” and punched the canvas, knocking over the easel, and then he just beat the crap out of it. Best fucking talent I’d ever seen.
My single most traumatic talent show experience: One girl performed slam poetry about the death of her parents and her brother. No one in the audience knew if they should clap or not. Fifteen years later and I still think about that.
About five years ago in my high school honor’s English class one of my classmates got up and told a serious slam poem (I forgot the subject matter, but I think there were guns involved). When the poem ended and the classroom started cheering, the girl ran out of the classroom crying. Five silent seconds passed, and our teacher said “That poem was very shitty. Who wants to drag [name] back inside?”.
Who would have thought that everyone met a slam poetry girl once? I had a poetry night in middle school. The girl entered not for a recollection of a true story (thankfully), but to flex her creative writing. I entered because I thought it would be funny to sumbit a poem about a guy who slipped on a banana peel. She confronted me after the show to mock it. Needless to say, I don't think she got the joke.
In college, and I loved this one, but a guy in a student org I’m in brought in 15 of his favorite vacuum cleaners and ON STAGE listened to each one at random and could identify it. The director brought his own personal vacuum and he got it right too just from the sound. It was very strange but oddly impressive.
For some reason at my old Christian (important later) school, they put the most talented duo at the beginning of the talent show, and nothing lived up to their performance. That was until the next to last act where one of the band players walked up onto the stage with the band's drum set. He sat down and sighed dramatically, paused, and played the pornhub intro. The entire chapel of 1000+ people erupted instantly into laughs, cheers, and clapping. Obviously none of the teachers said anything but I could tell that at least one of them knew what the tune was based on his reaction. It was awesome.
You just reminded me that someone did that at my high school talent show too. They played a whole song on drums and it was pretty good and then they ended up with the pornhub tune.
My favorite bit is how he kept making noises like an irritated gorilla. If I had any artistic ability I'd animate gorilla Matt trying to put a plastic peg in a hole or something
I felt really bad for the girl at my schools talent show who’s voice cracked incredibly obviously during a song. So many people started laughing and I think I saw her die a little inside
Wasn't a talent show but a christmas show when one kid was playing on violin and failed one note. After peformance she looked very shamed. Nobody luckily laughed
@@SofieArts...My High School choir class made us perform at old age homes during Christmas! 😬... One performance a kid stood up too straight, locked his knees (which fucks with blood flow through your body) and on the way back to the bus after the performance he got sooo dizzy that he passed out on the pavement and we carried him back to the bus and didn't do anything about it after that!
when i was in kindergarten, i wanted to be a ballerina. so i decided for the talent show i was going to go up on stage and do "ballet." i had never taken a single dance class and had no idea how ballet actually worked. i twirled around for thirty seconds straight and toppled into a group of microphones
In third grade, me and two other friends performed a song that was popular in our country, about kisses. When we were presenting, I noticed that everyone in our audience (other third graders and teachers) looked pretty bored. I wanted to fix that, so when the song got to the part where it says “the mommy kisses the baby right on his butt” I brought my hand up and SLAPPED my friend’s butt the hardest I could. She let out a scream and everyone started laughing. She and our other friend liked it, so we continued doing silly things while singing. It turned into a comedy show and was super fun in the end, and our audience loved it lol
This was a cartoon sound effect away from turning into a 3 stooges skit 🤣 Which is funny cause me and a couple friends I made while at a Bible camp once did something similar by volunteering to sing and acted like total buffoons. Unfortunately we were the only ones who found ourselves funny, and like one other girl who just decided hanging out with us was way more entertaining than hanging out with any of the other girls 🤣.
Just casually dropping in “I set myself the challenge of appearing on as many different TV shows as possible” immediately followed by “so I lied to ITV” is adding more weight to the whole Matt Rose is a really weird demigod theory (alongside the reading of the longest number in the world). It also begs the question: where else have you graced our television networks Matt?
I know he talked about another time where he lied to get on a baking show but I can’t remember which one. I think he mentioned in the video about misspelled cakes.
@@unnameablename Oh yes I remember that! He really needs to make a video explaining all his appearances because it would be hilarious and entertaining!
I managed to perform the cringiest performances at my elementary school talent show for two years in a row. You see, up until sixth grade, I was 100% certain I was going to be a nurse when I grew up, so I took that and made it my entire personality for a few years. In third grade, I decided to do a first aid demonstration for the end-of-year talent show, so I enlisted the help of a couple friends (who were definitely questioning all their life decisions while agreeing to this) and proceeded to do a 6-minute first aid demonstration on stage. My friends had to pretend to sprain their ankles, get ghastly cuts, and break their legs, while I ran around and mumbled incoherent instructions as I wrapped their limbs in bandages and towels after rummaging through a duffel bag to try to find those towels. It was... interesting. The next year, I wanted to jump on the bandwagon and sing a song. All the girls I knew were going to sing for the talent show, and, not wanting to be the odd one out, I signed up to sing as well. However, while all the other singing acts were presenting songs the audience knew and loved, I decided to be qUiRkY and choose something a bit more... niche. And by that, I mean the Philippine Red Cross anthem. I memorized the lyrics from an old video probably made with Windows Movie Maker on RU-vid and, on the day of the talent show, I grabbed a mic, got that video projected onto the screen behind me, and sang as loud as I could (mind you, I'm kind of tone deaf and cannot sing on-key to save my life) and practically belted out the whole thing as everyone in the audience just got progressively more and more confused. They all clapped politely at the end, but I could tell the applause was not as enthusiastic as it was for the other kids. If anyone from my elementary school happens to come across this, I just want to say I'm very sorry for potentially scarring you and don't worry, I've matured. I think.
i am second-hand embarrased intrigued entertained and impressed i also used to want to be a medical professional when i grew up (pediatrician) so i get it
Honestly first aid is a riot. There was one time when I was getting certified where someone was pretending to be in shock. Everyone else stood around not doing anything and I went: "WELL? COVER THEM UP!" and threw my coat over them like I was covering up a dead body. Then there was the time I held a choking vest by the tube on the front... And, thanks to the graces of gravity, the vest itself fell away, leaving me with a plastic trachea in my hand and going "Oh. That's not good."
My sophomore year of high school a guy came on repeatedly between talent show acts and log rolled off the edge of the stage (which was probably a good five foot drop). I believe he did it at least five times before the teachers stopped him because they were afraid he’d terribly injure himself. The crowd loved it, it was so incredibly stupid that it came full circle and became brilliant.
For anyone who has ever been embarrassed like this: I just want to assure you it doesn't matter and you're just fine. Matt's ability to not give a fuck is truly an inspiration, too. Shrug it off and go be yourself.
funny thing is when i'm presented with a situation like that I act just like Matt Recently I was is a play with my co-op [I'm homeschooled] and I had totally forgotten to memorize my lines until the last practice, a week before the performance The play was centered around the Christmas story [because my co-op is Catholic] and I was supposed to be an angel in a group that was supposed to be arguing about how to tell the humans that Jesus was to be born. I was supposed to be the lead angel, so my lines basically instigated everyone else's. Now I hadn't memorized my lines all the way, like i mentioned before. So I'm on stage in front of all the parishioners of the church we're performing at, stumbling my way through my lines, hoping I'm speaking loud enough, since we weren't able to get microphones. And I screwed up the dialogue, of course I did. I said a line that was supposed to reply to something someone said that THEY HADN'T SAID YET, and start a new line of conversation. My friends stared blankly at me for a second, then I realized what I'd done. First thought, oh f*ck. Second thought, get pissed at them. I loudly sighed and backtrack, improvising a little to make it seem like I'm mad that they're clueless, then get back on track. Guess what? My screw up got more laughs than the stupid script our group leader had written up.
He does have a talent. It's called confidently performing in front of an audience for the purpose of entertainment. He was confident in his ability to make people smile and laugh. Even if it meant doing something risky but fun!
Not a talent show per se, but I took a creative writing class in college, and we had sessions where people would get up and share what they wrote. This one time a guy got up and delivered a beautiful, rambling epic poem from memory. It was one of those things where everybody was talking about it afterwards. I talked to him later and expressed amazement that was able to memorize that whole thing. And I swear to God this idiot goes, "Oh, I was just making it up as I went along." I aspire to that level of not giving a fuck.
I did a genuine Irish jig. 96% of my dancing was better than ever, but right at the end, I completely ran out of energy. I tried to finish out with one last cool leap, but I just ended up doing a weird jump with both legs bent. Naturally, *that's* when the yearbook photographer decided to take the picture, so the only evidence of my fantastic dance is the stupid yearbook photo where I look visibly confused about doing what appears to be a very bad crane-kick.
Used to help out with yearbook design in middle school, the one thing I vividly remember doing while apart of that is putting all the most embarrassing photos of people I disliked in the most easily seen spot in the yearbook. I don't regret a single thing.
It's been a year since this comment was posted and I feel like I have to mention when my mom insisted I do an Irish dance for the talent show (the basic jig that all the little ones learn, i was in second grade or first grade I think) But anyway I had to wear my full irish dancing outfit and that horrendous curly wig the size of a basketball. I think I did pretty okay but it was still mortifying
One time when I had a dance recital (I was like three), we were supposed to crawl in a circle like little lions, and we were only supposed to go twice. I went three times and everyone clapped for me. I think they thought it was on purpose. It was the best. Also, might I just add, Matt Rose is the ultimate mad lad.
This might be a wild guess, but you might have gone to the same school as me! I was absent with the flu right before the show :(. My class played the lions/zebras.
I have this male friend, name was Vaughn. He one first freaking place, with a prize of £15 FOR SINGING BARBIE GIRL The best part was that he painted a cardboard box hot pink and sat in it though out the whole song. We all sang along too. Best talent show ever.
Because of the line spacing and the opening sentence, I thought this comment was going to be a limerick or something. "I have this male friend, name was Vaughn. A prize of £15 he won, he gave it a whirl, and sang BARBIE GIRL, and everybody sang along."
I distinctly remember my highschool's talent show. Some were good like our music teacher playing the saxophone. Others less good like a kid singing 'Tequila' and doing a split at the end. The one I remember most of all was this one kid who submitted multiple Hetalia MMDs. Projected onto a giant screen infront of the entire school. I don't know why that was submitted or accepted as a talent. It was wired for someone who knows what Hetalia and MMDs are and I'm sure it was even wired for those who didn't.
The last talent show I can remember in school had a group of friends sing and dance to Lady Marmalade; it was the year Moulin Rouge came out. I just remember sitting there realizing the wondering. if the teachers realize these teenage girls were singing about a prostitute asking a guy to sleep with her. They won the show.
So true…also, two of my great grandmothers in my case. Compared to some, they’re not wild but in two very separate conversations, I learned that one of my great-grandmothers swam in competitions representing the Channel Islands and the other knew writer/poet Dylan Thomas and did not like him at all, so called him ‘cach’ (Welsh for shit), to his face! 🩱💩
When my mom was six years old, she went to the library and checked out a book with instructions on how to build a guillotine, then followed the instructions and built a little fully functional guillotine for her Barbie dolls. She also got kicked out of Girl Scouts for putting a snake in the troop leader’s bed.
“Yeah Kiddo. Swam around the island of Guam when in the military. 80s or summin’. Kept seeing things in our peripheral vision, thought it was nothin’. When we swam to shore, someone asked if we were the kids swimming about. We said yeah, and they were standing there, baffled. Turns out, there were Great Whites in that water, and that’s what we were seeing.” He also told me a story of running into Pirahnas while he was swimming somewhere. Can’t remember much of it since he told me around 8 years ago, but he told me that was the fastest he’s ever swam in his life, lmao
I love that Matt was on BGT that's honestly Iconic. Even if he didn't get through there, he's doing so well now. I couldn't imagine watching myself back like that though 😖
I was basically a mute child and was pressured into entering a talent show in school once. What am I now remembered for instead of being completely forgotten? Singing and dancing to a Simpsons version of Deck The Halls. This was April time.
@@BenSpace Yeah! It was from a Simpsons book I'd been given for Christmas that was supposedly written by Bart. But unfortunately I'm pretty sure you'd only know it was about the Simpsons if you'd been told it. I only remember "decorate your father's belly, while he's sleeping by the telly" from it. I imagine it can't have looked too good for my parents.
This one group of kids decided to recreate the entire mean girls talent show scene at my friend’s school’s talent show. No, no, not the jingle bell rock part, the Damian part. They even got their African American principal to announce it in his best Tim Meadows impression, and they also got a few of them to sit down in the front row in the exact outfits to throw the shoe, and then proceed to get the shoe thrown at them. Also, the Damian kid was perfect. 10/10, still upset it only one 2nd place because of how short it was.
When I tell you my jaw DROPPED when I saw the BGT clips, it really dropped, I could not believe what I was seeing. You took those judges being stupid like a champ, Matt, I don’t think I could have auditioned let alone gone on TV and performed a silly talent like you did. (I love singing and I’ve been in a handful of musicals in the past, but I’ve always loathed auditions, they’re just… scary)
I tried to audition for musicals and always failed, despite giving it all I possibly had without even letting an inch of hesitation or embarrassment stop me. but that’s when I realized that the director just chooses favorites. I was far from said favorite, clearly, and even people who i could never even hear on stage, couldn’t act, and mostly just sat there looking pretty, always got leading roles. do you think I should just try my luck at a different theatre?
@@Pixelat1on Oh, 100%. Theatre is hard work, and you will have to work at it, but there’s nothing you can do about crappy directors. You just have to keep looking - the good directors, who are out there, I promise, will cast you if you can show them you’ll kill that role. Keep confidence and do your best and you’ll find something eventually. I can’t promise you that you’ll find a leading role right away - I’ve been in the ensemble for years of musicals. But I love being in shows even if I don’t get the spotlight, and the directors I’m under now seem impressed with the development I’ve made from last year. I can’t say for sure that I’ll get a big role in the next show even with that, but I want to try, and perseverance is half the battle. If theatre is something you really love, don’t give up on it (: You never know what might happen if you stick with it
I remember when I was 11, I went up on stage, did a few flexibility tricks, solved a Rubik's cube in about a minute, then proceeded to recite the entire periodic table. Looking back, I don't know how I ever had the bravery (social ineptitude) to do something that ridiculous, and I look back at half embarrassed and half impressed.
I'm in the process of being able to do the last two things. I happen to have enough common sense not to do them in front of anyone other than the niche types of nerd that will understand though.
@@chickenmaster3879 The thing is at that time, I was homeschooled and at a christian youth camp, so there were quite a few of those niche types of nerd in attendance😆
In second grade there was a talent show and everyone's talent was drawing. So every kid drew a picture on the whiteboard and we'd all clap. It got to a point where the teachers asked everyone to have a talent other than drawing. My talent was singing except at that age I didn't really know any songs, but I still wanted to participate and I suck at drawing. My solution? I went up on stage and made up an entire song and then left.
I preformed the 1st violin part of a piece I'd been playing in orchestra, there were two bars of rest before the end. EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE AUDIENCE started clapping during the rests. I *very loud and determinedly* finished the last measure of the music, bowed and walked off stage. I still remember what the piece was... For context I think I was in 4th grade, and I'd been playing violin for about a year. Even my old conductors would tell the audience to not clap before they put down their conducting stick, turn around and bow. PEOPLE STILL FRICKING CLAP! I know this seems nitpicky. But it's kinda like telling a joke to who ever you're talking to and they start laughing before the punch line. They don't hear the end, you don't finish your joke.
it's not nitpicky, i get this so much as someone who performs in an ensemble. we've played three movement pieces before and they have to BEG the audience not to clap until all three movements have concluded. it's truly exasperating and it feels disrespectful, like they aren't really paying attention to your performance.
@@bloosy1771 couldn't remember the name if my life depended on it! I just know the tune. I only been playing for a year so it was really basic I think the tune was something like d d-d e a(half note) d d-d c d(half note) d d-d a-b-a-b c b a
You awakened a memory with this one. I spectated a talent show in elementary school that one time that included: - a dance routine by two girls that was nicknamed "the battle of the ponytails" because of how much hair flipping was involved - a kid going out on stage with an easel and literally just drawing, sadly their talent was not drawing really fast so at some point they got pushed off to the side while others kept performing. I don't even remember getting to see the finished work - another kid singing a song parody about tomato soup, the song was kind of a big meme in Poland at the time so the whole audience sang along and it was easily the best received act
I sang the song “Satisfied” from Hamilton at my school’s talent show. I used sock puppets to represent Alexander and Eliza. I look back on this as one of the high points of my life, since the audience and I were on the same page about how seriously to take my performance. I didn’t win. Didn’t have to.
I still remember this one girl who unironically sang a five minute song containing a total of three different lyrics. On stage. In front of everyone. Only her.
Mentioning the Onceler during an improv troupe performance was my talent show cringe moment. For more context, I never even saw the Lorax movie and only knew the Onceler because of the weird Tumblr thing going around him at the time.
So I looked up Matt's performance on Britain's got Talent (because I was curious) And I must honestly say: That even tho he failed, he took it like an absolute champ The videos he does today are incredibly well done And he's seriously a great comedian Another thing I noticed was The way the judges were blatantly being insulting like middle schoolers, trying to get a reaction out of Matt was more cringe than anything he could've done A lot of arrogance and lack of professionalism behind that judge table But then again That's what talent shows are really Rich successful people making fun of normal people (or not normal) And due to many of these shows being scripted Some people enter not knowing that the sole reason they got in Was to make fun of them But aaaanyways If anyone read this comment Have a nice day! Thanks Matt for this great video :D cheers
I used to never, EVER do talent shows due to social anxiety. But I always wanted to- I just didn’t really have any onstage talent I could showcase. In junior year I decided “fuck it, this my last chance” and dragged one of my friends into learning the words to Ex-wives from six the musical with one day to prepare. We came up with choreo and really awful costumes in like five hours and did the whole thing that night, it went so badly (I would just to emphasize the fact that not only were our costumes literally just sweatshirts, there were only two of us performing three parts each, there was only one mic, and I cannot sing). It was the best damn day of my life, we had to keep taking turns changing into the different costumes backstage while the other person tried to keep a straight face, and that worked until my friend started laughing so hard she couldn’t even talk anymore and I had to yell her part from backstage while struggling to put on a blue shirt. It could very easily have been the worst social disaster of my entire school career but we just went with the chaos and people got really into it. During intermission a bunch of people came up to us and told us we killed it and that was hilarious. Obviously we didn’t win, but it’s still one of my favorite memories. The key is confidence! Just have fun with it and everything’s going to be fine. Why live with regrets?
Ahh! That's so great! I wanted to do my talent show too just to get out of my shell and say "fuk you" to my own social anxiety. I thought I had just the right amount of confidence, but then kids at my school were being pretty mean spirited about it. They made fun of almost everyone in the show that were posting their acts to their social medias. I silently dropped out, but no one knew I was even in it to begin with. I don't think I could've ever lived with the shame and I feel bad for everyone that was in it. I just wanted to have fun, but they killed it for me.
my schools talent show was pretty recent. the worst i’ve seen was this year’s, where a girl played a fnaf song and crawled around on the floor as Mangle. i applaud her bravery
When I was a little kid, I chose to do a drumming act for a mini talent show our class did. Only problem was, I didn't know how to play drums...and I didn't own any drums. So my "act" was basically me just sitting on the floor and "drumming" whatever I made up on the spot. Literally just slapping the carpet. Not so bad because of how young I was, but that's not a great memory
Back in 2013/14, I remember my primary school has a talent show and I remember nothing from it except that every single girl had gotten in by singing Let It Go. Literally every single one.
This makes me feel so much better about the time I was in middle school during lunch , and I just walked up to the microphone at the front of the cafeteria, picked up the mic, coughed, put it back down, and went back to my seat.
Honestly, Matt's performance was great. It takes some guts to stand on stage, being recorded for TV, and doing some absolute garbage, knowing you'll fail, while thousands of people are watching...
This was at a CYF youth getaway at a college campus during the summer. The last day held the talent show. I always *hated* the idea of performing in front of a crowd, but that night I finally got scraped together the confidence. I requested to perform a Three Days Grace song that I knew by heart. Knowing the song or not, extreme stage anxiety helps nobody. Not to mention I requested the performance during the show, and I wasn't told until AFTER they announced me that I was the *LAST PERFORMANCE.* So, I'm up there, telling people how bad I'm about to sound, and a damn good thing I did. The song starts, I immediately begin singing off-key and am extremely startled by the fact that one's voice sounds different to others: I could have ignored this except for the LOUD speakers on either side of the stage. I stutter, go silent, get encouragement from the audience, try to sing before signaling to the operator to kill the music. I then apologize to the audience and walk offstage back to the dorm before anyone else even starts to leave. This was luckily a very supportive group, but I hope they've forgotten, otherwise I don't ever want to see them again.
Back in twelfth grade, one of my classmates chugged an entire gallon of whole milk. No music, no buildup, he just got on stage and drank his milk. He lost that talent show and I think that's a shame
i was literally just reminiscing about my talent show experience today... i was 13, and my summer camp had a program where each cabin had to do a performance in front of the entire camp. most people either did some kind of skit or danced to a song, so we decided on dancing to ice ice baby, but we had a problem: i had a knee injury. so, what i had to do was get a basketball rack onto the stage, stand in the background, and awkwardly act like i was djing while my cabinmates performed. a clip of me wearing sunglasses and a backwards cap, standing there depressed made it into our official session recap video, which was also played in front of the entire camp. i believe it's on their website. it keeps me up at night.
when i was 15 my friend and I performed all star by smash mouth on kazoos at camp, the crowd went literally feral when they realized what we were doing. It was amazing.
that sounds like something the boys at my middle school would’ve done circa 2016-2017. you changed many lives that day and i commend you for your confidence
A friend and I decided to sing "Shut up and Dance" by Walk the Moon for our 5th-grade talent show. However, I had broken my leg two weeks prior so I was on crutches and the secretary lady who was supposed to be handling the technical stuff for each act, could and would not play the song on the speaker and was making a giant fuss about it. So, the end result was two thoroughly embarrassed ten-year-olds sitting next to each other, singing very quietly, staring at the floor, with "Shut up and Dance" playing faintly from an Ipod. I still hate that song to this day.
I had the opposite experience. I always made myself out to be a really bad singer and would always sing just slightly out of tune and not at all well. Then I signed up for the school talent show when I was 17- in my final year (Year 13). I won by singing 'On the Street Where You Live'.
I was at an overnight in La Jolla, CA with my summer camp. The counselors had the most amazing idea to make us have a talent show, but there would actually be a winner who had all the treats and snacks they could want. Me, being me, had the most brilliant idea to do the worm in my sleeping bag. On the dirty, burr filled ground. Needless to say, I could not sleep that night because of the burrs in my sleeping bag and because of all of the bulling I got after that ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE depiction of talent.
There was a kid not too long ago in a talent show who performed a song (I can’t recall which one) with a partner. He loudly yelled, “THE MUSIC IS OFF BEAT” After he couldn’t get the rhythm right, then ran off stage crying, pulled the fire alarm so hard the handle broke off, then ran out the back door and headed to his house. We haven’t had a talent show since. We were in 4th grade.
I got up on stage and said “So… ya like jazz?” somebody’s grandma stood up and calmly said “Yes I do!” and I had to just calmly hold back a laugh and say “Thank you for answering ma’am, but my question was rhetorical.”. Just straight up left after that.
I once went to a talent show and shared that I could do 50 somersaults in a row. I did 2, hurt my back on the hardwood church floor, and was escorted off the stage bawling my eyes out. I didn't even get any applause, everyone else at least got some as courtesy.
I won 1st place at an improv/talent/short film contest at a local film festival two years ago because I sang Snow Miser’s theme from The Year Without a Santa Claus by myself, without any backup music in front of the 200+ member audience. I won a trophy and $300. I got the privilege to be a contestant in the show again this year (I submitted an experimental short film I made for a college class), but the person who won 1st was a gross drunk girl in a black Adidas tracksuit who drank a whole bottle of pure white vinegar without stopping or gagging. She won $500… Edit: grammar and specific details
While I'm sure you're very talented, chugging white vinegar is a massively impressive feat, when was the last time you even had more than a few drops on your fish and chips yknow?
Church camp talent show glory: Someone's "talent" was opening the stage as an open mic roast. it was absolutely glorious, some real mean girls shit. Someone got on stage and made guacamole. the entire process of making guacamole. Then the lights went out suddenly and suddenly revealed he was wearing LED shoes Also the cringe time I put down 2 fake names to pad the list and encourage other people to sign up. I had to explain it live when they called the fake names
I did some jokes for my high school talent show with my best friend at the time. Told some meh ones and told ones that had the crowd laughing hard. In fact one of the judges laughed so hard that she fell out of her seat which just made everyone roar even more. We had the most energetic reaction out of the entire crowd and I could even hear my mom laughing from the back which was rare because she’s so used to my jokes that they don’t phase her all that much. We didn’t even place third. I guess joke writing wasn’t considered as good as making props like the musical numbers did.
@@starling1226 It's easier with crowds, actually. The trick isn't so much making people laugh, but leaving room for people to laugh without feeling silly. In a crowd, the hardest part about making someone laugh is making sure that they're not laughing alone. If there's only one or two people in the crowd that are laughing, everyone will feel awkward... but, if you leave space open for everyone to laugh, you can tell bad jokes and get big reactions. It's why sitcoms play laugh tracks, too. The laughter coming from the show is what actually prompts the feeling to laugh, rather than the show itself. The idea is that you don't want to stand out, so you react by laughing... it makes something that's not particularly funny into something worth a chuckle or two. All you need to do as a comedian is hit the right vibe in your delivery; it's really not even about the jokes you tell.
So my dad was my elementary school music teacher, and was the main person in charge of the talent showcase. My 4th grade year, there were two little girls who were singing "Dark Horse" by Katy Perry. When they auditioned, he told them they were in, if they cut the rap, which was too inappropriate for an elementary school talent showcase. The night of the talent show came, and the girls still sang the rap, causing my dad to get in trouble. The next year, it seemed like every little girl who auditioned was singing "Let It Go" from Frozen. None of them wanted to change their acts, none of them wanted to blend acts. With the fiasco the year before, my dad didn't want to push changing songs too much, since the kids were singing appropriate songs and he didn't want a repeat of last year. So, in my 5th grade talent showcase, we had about 12 occurrences of "Let It Go". To this day, hearing that stupid piano intro makes me want to scream.
I went and looked up the lyrics to the rap from Dark Horse and now i’m absolutely wheezing picturing two little girls rapping “her love is a drug, i was tryna hit it and quit it, but lil mama so dope i messed around and got addicted” among other things
We had a talent show once, but it was a small school, so we performed in our own classes. It was surprisingly nice; a lot of the kids were simply cheering each other on even if their acts were silly in hindsight. I fear for people that had to preform on some massive stage. That sounds like a nightmare!
In elementary school, I had the brilliant idea to read an awful joke book I owned in a talent show. I didn't practice or anything. Fortunately, I got sick the day of, and couldn't go, at which point I realized that was the worst idea I'd ever had so I gladly took my small cold and had fun at home.
I went this family summer camp for the visually impaired (my brother is legally blind), and there was a mandatory group talent show. I had a friend who was younger than me and to be in a group with her I had to join the younger kids group. I was planning on just going along with whatever they chose to do but being the oldest I guess they all assumed I would take the lead. The group counsellor and I ended up writing a parody of the intro song from Phineas and Ferb, and the counsellor came up with the genius idea to write the lyrics on a piece of paper so that the kids who couldn’t memorize them could read off of it. What we forgot to keep in mind was that THE KIDS WERE FUCKING BLIND AND OBVIOUSLY COULDNT READ. We go up to preform and I’m the only one who knows the lyrics but my 13 year old self is too embarrassed to sing on my own. We all just kinda stood there in silence. One kid started crying. The worst part is the announcer guy hyped us up a bunch first, and a guy even volunteered to play ukulele for us as we sang. It’s all on video too, just silence, ukulele, and a poor little blind kid crying.
Was one of the technicians for a talent show. Girl sang 7 years by lukas graham. Completely failed during recitals so qe suggested ahe doesn't do it to avoid embarassing herself. Couple of days later the teacher told us "she had practiced non stop and mastered it" so we let her do it. She started with "it was an is big world but we were think we bigger" followed by some awkward humming and her starting the chorous while half of the verse was still missing. All while playback music was on. Seeing how she was near breaking down we shut down lights and sound immediately, pretending to have technical difficulties to allow her to get off stage. It was thankfully followed jy an amazing dance performance so that trainwreck was forgotten. This was 4 years ago. Girl should be 16 now. Probably still wakes up in a cold sweat now and then.
@@andramarquardt As someone who actually *has* solved a Rubik's cube in a talent show, that must have been a pretty small stage if you could actually tell that the cube wasn't solved from the audience.
Our highschool had a dinner theater, I'm pretty sure back then band participated, too, because I remember my mom telling me my brother sang "Desperado," but forgot the lyrics halfway through, and just kept going "la la la" in place and I just think of that some times.
One time when I was in Egypt on vacation I made friends with a girl my age (maybe 6/7 at the time?) and we randomly decided to get on stage in the hotel restaurant full of people and perform a tap dancing routine. I remember genuinely thinking that we were insanely good at it, despite having no idea how to actually tap dance properly (we just moved our feet kinda fast with no coordination, very impressive stuff). There wasn't even a talent show or anything, I don't even know if we were allowed on the stage, but when we started dancing we were so amazed with our abilities, or I guess raw tap dancing talent, that we just had to share that incredible performance with everyone. For some unknown reason people weren't that impressed, but it was still really fun. I never saw that girl again after our vacation, I hope she's doing well these days.
It wasn't a talent show, but an audition for a school play when I was in first grade. We were told to improvise a scene by ourselves. When it was my turn, I had absolutely no idea what to do, so I ended up crawling around on the floor and pretending to be a cat, pausing every few seconds to look around and meow. Everyone sat in silence for what felt like forever, but was probably a minute or two, until they gently told me to stop. I made it into the play. I think I'll perform an encore at my next job interview.
Never participated in any school talent shows, but I have done camp ones. Cringiest was when 12 year old me tried to perform campfire songs on my instrument for my boys camp. But I played the baritone (a concert baritone at that, looks like a tuba), and the only songs I knew from memory were school pep music. Only the counselors applauded to be polite. Best for me is a tie between two college contests. For the first, I rapped from memory Cameo’s “Word Up”. Got a name for myself from that. Second, I also rapped from memory “Baby Got Back”. I won that competition and got a nice homemade baseball cap that says 1-900-Mix-A-Lot.
I...I won 3 straight high school talent shows playing anime music on piano... I was too embarrassed to say it was from a cartoon so i just named the Japanese composers. I personally don't think I outperformed the dude who walked onto stage barefoot and played a song on a sitar. That kid should've won.
To get out of performing a talent on stage, I took part as one of the Masters of Ceremonies. I had to read the absolute stupidest jokes about all the kids who were performing, and one third grade girl cried because of the pun made using her name. I only remember two things from that night, the crying girl, and this exchange between me and my co-host (FYI, we were the whitest guys in a school where half the population was either Mexican or Samoan): Me: "Oooh, ¡muy caliente¡ Up next we'll be getting senoritas X and Y with some SALSA!" Co-host: "Mmmm! I love tortilla chips!" Me: "Not _salsa,_ Salsa _Dahncing!_ You'll understand once the music starts!" I keep thinking about it every time I go to a Mexican restaurant and making myself cringe.
Not sure if I'd call this cringe, but here's a fun story: At my high school, there was something akin to a talent show, the only real difference was that the performers were mostly theater kids. For the finale of the show I was in, these two people did an act called "Clown Seminar." When they were finished with the main lessons, all the other performers (including me) came onstage and started to wildly dance. For the final part of the act, the drama teacher came onstage to stop the bit of chaos happening, we agreed to mess with her a bit, started walking up to her West Side Story style, and ended with the teacher getting pied in the face.
On the topic of a “never gonna give you up” act, a kid at my school was able to play it on piano. Later at the end of the show, they decided to make him play it again except everyone would sing along (this was probably an idea they had before it happened), Nobody sung along. Some people joined in at the chorus, but there was dead silence other than the piano during the verses. The announcers had to keep telling us to sing along, but no one did 💀
We didn’t have talent shows, but we had Acrogym demos. Here’s a few of the best moments Kids on a beach theme, grade 3: « WE WOULD HAVE LIKED TO PLAY THE SONG SIX ON THE BEACH INSTEAD OF THIS ONE BUT WE WERE ONLY 5 » Kids with a theme called « Funny Fail videos » in which they purposefully failed every single move, grade 5: « I wasn’t faking it » Teacher to a group of guys with the soccer theme, playing the song Rockstar, grade 4: « Well I would’ve given you a good grade but you have to go and put your funeral music, how pathetic. » Group of girls with the animal theme, grade 4: « TEACHER, BEFORE WE START I HAVE TO TELL YOU, DON’T WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR ANIMAL BY MAROON 5. IT’S OUR SONG BUT YOU’LL BE VERY SCARED IF YOU WATCH THE VIDEO. JUST PUT THE LYRICS. » Girls with the Pokemon theme, grade 5: Walking on all fours, and one of them fell off the stage Guy with the beach party theme, grade 6: Takes his shirt and pants off Girl during another group’s performance of the Circus theme, grade 4: Runs to the stage to eat the popcorn the performers threw on the floor, followed by one of the performer’s « Noooooo! They’re expired! »
one time at my school talent show there was a young girl that performed a dance to the song Shatter Me by Lindsey Sterling. It was genuinely good choreography but a lot of the audience (mainly teenage boys) was laughing at her and I think she left while crying. I felt really bad, but also it was literally a tiktok dance based talent show so imagine how much more embarrassing everybody else was 💀
@@chillcreep4926 she was really brave! I used to do dance classes with her but we lost contact, so idk how she's doing now that we're in different schools. It was such a small performance though, so I don't think it'll stick to her forever haha
I remember a talent show where a bunch of students got up on the stage, stared expressionlessly into the middle distance, and ran out of the room. They didn’t have stage fright or anything - I actually heard them planning it beforehand. One of the teachers gave them a 10 because it was the first time he’d seen students running out of school or smth.
When I was in year 7, I played the Star Wars theme tune on bagpipes witch went well and everyone was somewhat impressed. I then proceeded to play it over everyone else’s act. The worst point is I had just started my bagpipe debut and could not play Star Wars. It was a recording.
At my 3rd grade talent show the nerdy girl showed up to school in a cardboard box with the Declaration of Independence on it and little cut outs for the limbs and head. Not only did she rap the Declaration of Independence in front of the whole school, she also tripped over her own costume and fell off the stage (she was fine). You know what was even worse? She was me
i remember someone in the fifth grade talent show setting up a table full of papers and we were all so curious because it was randomly set up in between kids running around with dinosaur masks and girls singing fight song with a whole ribbon routine. the kid walked on stage, and in his very strong indian accent said ‘i’m going to show you all something amazing’, then cued the teacher to start playing a violin cover of get your head in the game from high school musical, and started lifting up the papers on the table. it was literally all the art projects we had done that year, and he walked along the stage so proud holding them up. he bowed at the end as the only people clapping were his mother and the teachers, and to top it all off, he got called into the principals office right after he bowed. idk what for, but it was really funny
My dude was proudly showing off all the talent your class has, that's kinda wholesome in a way. But poor kid having only his teachers and mom clapping for him. That's embarrassing
I forgot that I was in a talent show at the library when I was a kid, I sang a song and even had a nice dress for it. I wish this video didn’t bring that memory back because the song I choose was a warrior cats fan song. Luckily the lyrics didn’t make it very obvious it was about warrior cats so it just sounded like a normal nice song to anyone who hadn’t heard it before. This is going to haunt me forever now thanks.
I decided to play Rush E. Took very long to learn. It was my last year. The last talent show they had a whole ceremony for the winners. I won. there was no ceremony. I got the award in a small ziplock bag. I still remember it to this day.
When I was in 1st grade I did "breakdancing" to some Disney song (IDK anymore). However, I had no idea how to breakdance, and the entire act consisted of me rolling around on the stage. Everyone thought I was the coolest. My best friend admitted YEARS LATER that she was super jealous, just afraid to admit it
last summer, i took part in a silly talent show hosted by the village i was staying in. it was a trip w/ my friends and some other kids without any parents, and all of them told me to join, so i did. now, apparently i was so anxious that one of the judges told me i had a “pretty deep voice for a lady”. i am, in fact, a guy. i cried that night
