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Chips Cooney’s got talent

Another comic appeared on NBC’s America’s Got Talent Tuesday night. This time, it was Chips Cooney, from Edgewater, NJ. SPOILER ALERT: He makes it through to Vegas.

We’re quite puzzled that Piers Morgan didn’t know that Cooney was “going for terrible,” as Mandel described it. Of course he was “trying to be terrible!” That’s the whole joke!

We gotta hand it to Cooney, though– all through the pre-interview, he played it straight and maintained that he was “an illusionist.” (We’re quite certain that the PA’s knew he was an intentionally bad magician, but we’re not so sure that the judges were alerted ahead of time. And we’re glad to see that the ignoramuses in the audience were essentially fooled into rooting for a comedians. Which is something they’ve been trained not to do… inexplicably.)