'Is he alive?': The outrageous 'AGT: All-Stars' act that Simon Cowell couldn't bear to watch - USA TODAY

The conflict of the brightest connected "America's Got Talent: All-Stars" stars rages on. 

Top acts from the planetary "Got Talent" franchise proceed to propulsion down on NBC's super-competition (Mondays, 8 EST/PST) with their sights acceptable connected the finals. Among the show's judges – Simon Cowell, Heidi Klum and Howie Mandel – lone Cowell had the quality to hit the Golden Buzzer Monday, securing an act's spot successful the finals. (The 2nd spot successful the finals would beryllium decided by a voting sheet of "superfans," while eight different hopefuls faced elimination erstwhile more.)

Here's however the evening unfolded:

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Mike E. Winfield, a comic from Season 17 of "AGT," returned to ace up the judges. He joked astir his stepson, whom helium refers to "stepman" owed to their akin ages, staying retired excessively late. "I drove astir the country to prime him up (from a party), I came location 3 hours later," Winfield said. His woman said, "'Michael, you been' drinkin'?' I'm like, 'We got immoderate of the aforesaid friends. Everybody was there. He's inactive there. I'mma spell get him again."

"You are that ray of sunshine, and I emotion you," Klum raved. "You are hilarious."

Cowell predicted if Winfield had performed the evening's regular previously, "it might've been a wholly antithetic story, due to the fact that you've travel backmost funnier, much confident. I can adjacent spot it successful your eyes however overmuch this means to you close now."

"It means everything," said Winfield. "This is what I've been wanting forever. I wanted 'AGT.' I've been doing this for 20 years, and you spell unnoticed, past you yet get a platform. There's no clip to instrumentality disconnected oregon enactment connected brakes. I'm present to play."

Cowell, noticing the audience's adoration for the standup, gave him the Golden Buzzer. "You cognize what, Mike? I love, love, emotion radical who compete," Cowell said, "and I wasn't expecting to bash this, but I'm going to bash it."

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Saxophonist Avery Dixon hits each the close notes

Saxophonist Avery Dixon, a rival connected Season 17 of "AGT" who earned  a Golden Buzzer from host Terry Crews backmost then, returned Monday.

The young musician, who picked up the saxophone aft being bullied astir his voice, said helium was competing for his mom: "I'm present to get her that location and triumph it all." 

Dixon gave himself a warring chance when helium and his set performed a lively rendition of Pharrell Williams' "Happy" that brought a dancing Klum to her feet.

"That's however you bash it!" she said, smiling.

Mandel complimented Dixon's evolution. "You stepped it up," Mandel said. "You went from an astonishing portion of endowment to an astonishing show. You are a show!"

Bir Khalsa is an enactment astir unwatchable for Cowell

Bir Khalsa, a radical that performs unsafe stunts that archetypal appeared connected Season 14, showed it was acceptable for "All-Stars" with a frightening act Cowell recovered hard to watch.

For 1 bit, a blindfolded subordinate of the four-person radical took a sword and sliced coconuts resting connected different member's neck. "I can't instrumentality it!" said an anxious Crews. 

For different trick, the blindfolded subordinate smashed coconuts and watermelon, outlining his collaborator's assemblage with a sledgehammer. "I can't watch," said Mandel with his hands nervously placed connected his head.

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As the sledgehammer came person to striking a watermelon by the radical member's head, Cowell covered his eyes. After a swing, Cowell, who'd turned distant from the signifier asked, "Is helium alive?"

For the group's last feat, the blindfolded antheral sliced an pome betwixt the heads of 2 partners with a chainsaw.

"That is by acold the craziest happening I've seen," Mandel said.

"Ever!" Klum agreed. "It was exhausting to watch! You guys are insanely crazy, and it was wow – it was truthful entertaining. It was truthful good. I could not look away."

Cowell said the radical would get his ballot for the finals.

Who did the superfans select?

Crews, stretching the suspense of the panel's selection, revealed its Top 3 for the finals. (Remember they tin lone prime 1 enactment to advance.)

As overmuch arsenic Bir Khalsa impressed the judges, the radical was obscurity successful sight. Crews revealed Dixon; Keren Montero, a vocalist who won "Dominicana's Got Talent" successful 2021; and mind-reader Peter Antoniou from Season 16 of "AGT," whom Cowell said lacked showmanship, were the panel's apical picks.  

But it was Dixon who the instrumentality votes pushed through to the adjacent round.

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