Tales of Talent Show Cringe

[@retropixel6801]

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[@tubularfantasy]

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[@crazycatboysolomon7006]

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[@zachgreenninja3885]

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[@awsomazing_neil]

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[@LuckySketches]

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[@samueldoeswhatever7307]

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.

[@DaKing08]

A-tier parody.

[@bag_head7]

everyone should aspire to be a rob boss

[@zooms218]

Metal

[@IndrasChildDeepAsleep]

I'm honestly jealous you got to see that lol

[@The-ULMR]

Thats metal as fuuuuckk

[@Houndoom97akabranflakes]

Being able to publicly humiliate yourself only to get laughs and laughing along Is by itself a talent, tbh

[@kiyo6262]

mep

[@jackatk]

@Toast & Stroodles Huh?

[@jackatk]

@Toast & Stroodles Oh hahaha

[@mychemicalbromance69]

Mep

[@isasa12]

Mep

[@spiritwarhol707]

Every time Matt drops more lore about his life I get more in awe and concerned.

[@Antifearn]

The MRCU (Matt Rose Cinematic Universe)

[@justrosie.]

yyyoo a kiku fan

[@Animallover24678]

He is truly an entity

[@morgandishman]

I came here to write "that guy looks like Matt" 😂

[@BeanKally]

mep

[@absfairabbyfouts7099]

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.

[@Antifearn]

Why tf would somebody own that many vacuum cleaners? 😂

[@Luna_tech2]

@@Antifearn gotta keep clean

[@casperrabbit7254]

Sounds like he had a bit of the old 'tism 🤣

[@gmoroder]

Favorite vacuum cleaners? FIFTEEN OF THEM?

[@SOMETIMENOISES]

@@casperrabbit7254definitely 😂

[@Jeagles]

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?

[@unnameablename]

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.

[@thicc_astley]

fr this was a new piece of matt rose lore that i was not expecting

[@YCt37689]

@@unnameablename Oh yes I remember that! He really needs to make a video explaining all his appearances because it would be hilarious and entertaining!

[@chrisbutler1668]

Matt would have to travel overseas to appear on the one television show that truly makes you an American celebrity..."COPS".

[@swayinghaze83]

​@@samuelbastable2002 oooh!! yay

[@YCt37689]

Matt appearing on Britain's got talent with a 2012 haircut is just too amazing for words.

[@YCt37689]

@Rach SAME!😄

[@tictacmothma]

Just imagine if his talent had been reading random gibberish and misspellings. He would've won.

[@cassandralyris4918]

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.

[@mew976]

Thank you that's helpful

[@kotzpenner]

I still get messages sometimes to send the clip when I appeared on TV doing weird vibration sounds. This was in 2010… 😂 It’s fine though.

[@Itmedontask]

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.

[@totallynoteverything1.]

"be yourself" shut up, shut the hell up

[@totallynoteverything1.]

that advice has gotten me into more trouble, humiliation, and betrayal than necessary

[@Thetrainbloke]

tbh, I'd applaud if someone went on stage and said "mep"

[@snowikitt1558]

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

[@pikkusaukko]

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

[@shaiapoufsviolin2057]

I would’ve broken down and started crying, I love your pfp BTW

[@ConvenientlyShapedUsername]

@@pikkusaukko Same thing happened to me but with a flute in an elderly home or whatever they're called lol

[@-belue-6697]

@@ConvenientlyShapedUsername...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!

[@kanefelis]

@@pikkusaukko Kawauso?

[@jbombbay6429]

The bottle flip thing just gets progressively funnier as it goes on and i’m here for it

[@toky7840]

Same😂

[@Sammie1053]

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

[@-belue-6697]

I kept saying, "OH! YOU ALMOST GOT IT! GOOD JOB! YOU CAN DO IT!"... I feel like such a parent today! 😂🤪

[@gordon1545]

I was just waiting for Matt to lose his temper and yeet the bloody bottle over his house.

[@mychemicalbromance69]

Mep

[@scotti16ape]

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.

[@Antifearn]

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?”.

[@gwendolynstata3775]

Did she win?

[@scotti16ape]

@@gwendolynstata3775 No...a guy from the JROTC drill team won for spinning a rifle, of all things

[@georgeonquantin9812]

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.

[@fakeemail6815]

like as in talking about how they died or describing an imaginary scenario in which they die

[@DrKoneko]

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.

[@ochonnidaecunniculus8002]

OMFG what a LEGEND

[@victordarkreapewr444]

BALLS OF TITANIUM HOLY FUCK

[@DaKing08]

OH NAHH BRO TROLLED EVERYONE

[@wetsockfullofhotmeat]

That is an absolutely genius troll. Nobody could call him on it without admitting how they knew what it was

[@rachelcookie321]

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.

[@easye805]

Matt rose is the supreme overlord of Mondays.

[@MaizingZara]

And tuesdays (it is Tuesday where I live)

[@podiacider]

Monday is. You’re watching a Matt Rose video and you made a grammatical error. Shame on you.

[@jesterblackguarde8464]

Of Monday's what?

[@beansat3am]

Garfield's Arch Nemesis

[@dabatman5187]

He’s the only good part of Mondays

[@dr.loboto1171]

Honestly, mad respect to the kid who flipped and shattered those glass cups. That was NOT a fail, that was a deliberate comedy routine.

[@freger7841]

mep

[@LittleRedTea]

Definitely XD I couldn't stop laughing the first time I watched this, haha! Jesus loves you! Have a blessed day!

[@jigglypuff_foryoutube1700]

@@LittleRedTeaamen! Keep spreading the Gospel!❤️

[@jigglypuff_foryoutube1700]

Even if I was the janitor who had to clean it up I’d say worth💀

[@alicebthegachaweirdo8378]

@@LittleRedTeaI don’t love Jesus

[@erinbaer5118]

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.

[@lauraisodd4172]

As an Irish dancer I hope u did ok :,)

[@randomlittleidot]

I think the photographer had something against you

[@luckyanimationideas2448]

Well that must have been a pain, I know that I weirdly do one to Family Guy's 'Drunken Irish Dad' song. With asthma it's a real pain for me

[@soggyfrenchfries8964]

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.

[@killerharmony]

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

[@staticradio724]

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.

[@Thereischeeseindeed]

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.

[@Coco-Loco]

Aw that's actually so cute!

[@Peanutnibbler]

​@@Coco-Loco unus annus?

[@Coco-Loco]

@@Peanutnibbler Memento Mori!

[@toast_stealer]

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.

[@KimsWeirdChannel]

@@Coco-Loco Memento Mori. We’re everywhere. 😂

[@lgnbby]

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 😖

[@Matt_Rose]

Genuinely in making this video, that is the first time I have watched that footage of myself 💀

[@lgnbby]

@@Matt_Rose my condolences 🙏🏻

[@Akka5000]

my reaction to that information: 4:10

[@hellworm]

8:12 baby birds

[@khaosctrlb47]

I can't even think of all the stupid stuff I've done the past, I can imagine having video evidence, hats off

[@corndogbark5915]

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)

[@lillaidbakjr1027]

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

[@corndogbark5915]

@@lillaidbakjr1027 Hey, that’s true (: Words to live by

[@Pixelat1on]

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?

[@CompleteBSRecords]

@@Pixelat1on holy heck hi 6 mins ago

[@corndogbark5915]

@@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

[@TheMandalorianPadawan]

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 KZbin 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.

[@EllpaFox47]

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

[@UltimaDoombotMK1]

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."

[@brybrybry995]

What vocation did you end up following, assuming you did not become a nurse?

[@TheMandalorianPadawan]

@@brybrybry995 I am starting college as a pre-illustration major! I realized nursing wasn't really for me and art and comics were more of my thing, but I still find the human body interesting and have lots of respect for nurses and other medical professionals.

[@oonmm]

I don't mind the pain, nor the resulting scars. What really hurts me is that I never got any proper medical care to help ease the trauma.

[@linchubbard3711]

Matt being on BGT is like when your dad randomly drop the most weird or wild life experience, tell you about it casually

[@haldalas]

So glad that I’m not the only one whose dad does that haha

[@rebelbaby8747]

YES

[@Harrietmjones]

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! 🩱💩

[@tsifirakiehl4250]

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.

[@willowssanity]

“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

[@Nudelyoshi3928]

That intro was one of the biggest chunks of the Rose-Lore we've ever gotten. Write it down guys!

[@sillyperson1610]

done

[@scrbblcat]

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

[@astero5124]

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

[@astero5124]

also, mep

[@julajezupe]

JUTRO ZNOWU BĘDZIE POMIDOROWAAA XDDD

[@johngellare3507]

Please tell me the song was Po Twojej Pysnej Zupie

[@Anatoli_Punto]

​@@johngellare3507 It was probably "Jutro znowu będzie pomidorowa" by LETNI

[@billcipher8645]

​@@johngellare3507 "Po Twojej Pysznej Zupie" is a rather new meme, "Jutro znowu będzie pomidorowa" is a classic

[@_beanbag_2545]

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

[@carlycarmine3858]

😂😂😂

[@DaKing08]

“toppled into a group of microphones” Strike (Wii Sports Voice) NICE THROW!

[@spicywaffle_]

as a former ballerina of 11 years honestly mood, that's what it feels like when you're going across the floor practicing pirouettes and other spins

[@rachelcookie321]

I did the exact same thing except I was 6 and it was the piano. I just hit a bunch of random keys until I got bored.

[@Xeorboom]

the fact that Matt challenged himself to appear on as many TV shows as possible could be a video on it's own

[@emmie-c8t]

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.

[@Methus3lah]

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.

[@shadowclaw7210]

Fuck I wanna see it badly now.

[@Amatureb]

I saw the words Satisfied and Hamilton, and you immediately gained my respect. I have never felt so helpless.

[@Артмиш]

Based

[@maddieb.4282]

This is absolutely hilarious

[@bunnyboyVR]

⁠@@AmaturebI can’t say no to that.

[@frogfish1567]

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?

[@Itmedontask]

that's gorgeous I wish I could see it the mental images I'm conjuring up are absolute gold

[@badtimebree]

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.

[@thetaekwondoe3887]

Life is one big regret.

[@MasterIsabelle]

If only my school was supportive

[@llamasugar5478]

Epic.

[@silvercandra4275]

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...

[@Renfeng4]

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.

[@eldercar783]

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

[@minji1877]

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

[@pillowmint4622]

I was expecting the story to take a turn for the worse after the "slapped my friend's butt" part, but it actually ended up being pretty wholesome lol

[@MKSC74]

LMAOO

[@ScorpionTamer]

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 🤣.

[@CuteCuteJames]

Reading the audience is your real talent.

[@elephantcubed4133]

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.

[@666_cthulhu]

10/10 you should be proud

[@chickenmaster3879]

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.

[@elephantcubed4133]

@@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😆

[@honeymoonavenue444]

thats metal af bro u should be proud

[@MiScusi69]

He's Alfredo Einsteinio!

[@turtlesandwich77]

The 20+ failed bottle flips, culminating in a success followed by "What ya sayin" is the most gangster thing I've seen in my life

[@starry_nites9887]

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.

[@varahunter68]

must've been awkward for the fire dept

[@lolnamelollastname9788]

OOOOOF. Someone chose to have RSD hardcore

[@Rainstar1234]

3:57 watching matt repeatedly fail to flip a bottle for a whole minute straight is truly incredible

[@theKobus]

And like, why is it funnier that it’s a Pellegrino bottle? Because it is

[@cantputashrugasausernameso5105]

Literally 39 attempts

[@captainupbeat6712]

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.

[@_Chessa_]

Your lie in April. 🥲

[@Thishandleistaken1234]

​@@_Chessa_ ptsd

[@redfoxlol101]

literally just that one prozd skit “cool song, what’s it from?” “oh, it’s by the japanese composer yasuharu takanashi.” “no, what’s it *from*?” “…naruto”

[@Baku_bro]

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.

[@DaNintendude]

After I read about the cardboard box, I had the horrifying realization that kids nowadays might be singing skibidi toilet in talent shows

[@jessicalee333]

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."

[@Baku_bro]

@@jessicalee333 Lol I like that

[@1Thunderfire]

​@@DaNintendudeI refuse to accept this realisation on principle.

[@agenty_gd]

Matt should go to a talent show again to showcase his real talent this time: reading incomprehensible keyboard smashes

[@nonyanae2]

I want to see this

[@yourfailures]

​@@nonyanae2 I too want to see this

[@spaghettimist]

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.

[@IZABELAqqqqq]

That sounds like a really nice memory

[@stacia2016]

At my high school we had essentially what was a beauty pageant for men called "mr.park" for shits and giggles. One of the guys said, "I dont have a talent, but I can make toast." Then proceeded to make toast on stage. It was a surprisingly good talent.

[@liengandriod55]

Making good toast is a hard talent. That guy is going places.

[@aikotitilai3820]

Wait he brought a toaster on stage ?

[@stacia2016]

@Aikotitilai yes. And a loaf of bread, and butter. He went for it

[@liengandriod55]

Yesterday I tried to make toast; burnt like 4 slices of bread. So yeah just confirm my point

[@imarainbowdragonyeetme6153]

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.

[@noemiz8241]

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]

What was the piece?

[@imarainbowdragonyeetme6153]

@@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

[@SillyBilly-w7s]

That happened at my schools talent show last year. He was playing piano and looked so defeated. He was a jerk tho so idk

[@MasterArchfiend]

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]

That fricking sucks. People don’t realize how difficult it is to make somebody laugh when they anticipate it.

[@IceFox09]

Well Let Us Hear The Jokes!

[@Gamer-yg9wp]

What are some of those jokes

[@justanaveragebuzzsaw]

I'd love to hear your jokes actually

[@deusdamnit]

@@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.

[@one4all123]

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.

[@snowikitt1558]

Similar as we had a lot but my school combined them all into one act and they all had to sing together

[@yeethittter1285]

The realest 2013 experience

[@Dan23_7]

Holy shit how young are you then ?

[@hansandhispanzerfaust6236]

Every year from 2013, until i graduated from that school, was *just* let it go, every single singing act was 2+ minutes of let it go. It was torture

[@southernheretic]

oh my god same here. 13 girls in the lineup sang let it go, and even i had been originally planning on playing that song on my violin. thank god i decided to change it last second. my family suffered a lot that day...

[@moonfairy2325]

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.

[@666_cthulhu]

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

[@thedorkknight9684]

dressed as chewbacca and told star wars jokes. it was me. was called "Star Wars Kid" for like 5 years

[@tacohead8543]

How the HELL do you tune armpit farts?? I'd personally be VERY impressed if a kid armpit farted an entire song relatively on tune. Props to him!

[@counterfeit1148]

Perhaps it was only the rhythm

[@tacohead8543]

@@counterfeit1148 that would not be as funny. i choose to believe he also farted in tune.

[@roxassora2706]

How do you tune armpit farts? Let alone to Evanescence?

[@TheAbsol7448]

@@roxassora2706 With an armpit fart tuner, of course.

[@carlycarmine3858]

​@@roxassora2706 it was acdc, the evanescence one was on a kazoo

[@valikoest7981]

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.

[@Gamer-yg9wp]

Dang it why say the age of the girl it's bad enuff I just so happen to be the same age

[@iwantabigpiece]

youch Props to y'all for saving whatever's left of her self esteem

[@s8wc3]

Technicians? Lighting? Holy cow. At my primary school we had a CD boombox.

[@Gamer-yg9wp]

@@s8wc3 same

[@lilrockstar8170]

@@Gamer-yg9wp Me too, I was worried for a minute…

[@zrc1514]

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.

[@theelgatorobloxgamingmems]

man thats really embarassing 😔

[@llamasugar5478]

The broken leg was missed comedy potential: Shut Up and Dance? Broken leg?

[@Miss._Scarlett]

@@llamasugar5478 “But it hurts so bad!” “SHUT UP AND DANCE FOR ME CHILD”

[@joshslater2426]

I hate that song anyway. I can’t imagine how painful it must’ve been to try and sing it.

[@milesmurdock]

i think everyone needs to know that my sleeping dog woke up when the video got to 3:19 and stared at me in genuine concern and that is the only time he's ever shown that to anyone lmfaoooo

[@wannixdroxe1880]

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

[@wakkowarner3716]

lmao what. How can you rap the Declaration of Independence?

[@potato1674]

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

[@-DumpsterFire]

send a link or tell the episode and season

[@DarkeWiing]

Did you find it on youtube? I can't find the original

[@tinfoilhatseller]

Where did you find it?

[@matthewstuckenbruck5834]

Come on man. You can NOT just giveus that and not tell us how you found it.

[@logan_dacat]

Yeah what everyone else said. Give us.

[@Antifearn]

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 sweats who drank a whole bottle of pure white vinegar without stopping or gagging. She won $500… Edit: grammar and specific details

[@nonyanae2]

You have to admit, chugging vinegar is no easy feat

[@PapaHepatitis7170]

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?

[@iwantabigpiece]

Did anyone check if it was really white vinegar? And also RIP stomach

[@NoriMori1992]

What is Miser Bros?

[@saltygooseundertale7412]

Yeah I feel like it had to just be colored water or something I really don't think anyone could do thag

[@thechaosbringer858]

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.

[@madmaverick]

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.

[@Itmedontask]

I can't stop laughing M E O W

[@amandapanda5087]

Lol

[@TheBritishDragong]

Reminds me of when we did a Nativity play in year 1 and I think I was a shepherd. Someone else in the class was my sheep, and it was not fun because she kept having a screaming tantrum whenever we were on the scene and no one could get her under control

[@miranda.g.22]

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.

[@Klabbity_Kloots]

See, these kind of slapstick interludes kept talent shows lively.

[@vitamins-and-iron]

you made me laugh onto my plate and now there are toast crumbs everywhere

[@KasaiRayquaza]

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.

[@miranda.g.22]

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

[@liengandriod55]

I feel so bad for you and your dad. Unfortunately, kids wanting to sing inapporpriate song is surprisingly common.

[@heather_foreather]

Du du du du du du du du dud du dud du the snow glows white on the mountain tonight not a footprint

[@redfoxlol101]

god let it go has never had positive connotations for me ever, the first time i heard it in the film i immediately decided i didn’t like it

[@KasaiRayquaza]

@@redfoxlol101 Same

[@AdamOfIngolstadt]

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

[@southernheretic]

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.

[@Rain_boot]

Damn now I want to see

[@wontonsoup1711]

i will find it >:)

[@marga8732]

do you by any chance have a link? :>

[@saltygooseundertale7412]

I also wanna see

[@Lunni-toonies]

I would’ve been so embarrassed, I feel your pain.

[@juf9055]

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.

[@Gamer-yg9wp]

Where's it posted

[@83ATwo]

😭

[@Gamer-yg9wp]

@@83ATwo what

[@juf9055]

@@Gamer-yg9wp oh it will never be posted publicly

[@Gamer-yg9wp]

@@juf9055 oh okay

[@Faithpop98]

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!

[@Faithpop98]

I really enjoy your content Matt, thanks for making my day and my life brighter. You're amazingly good at what you do. Thanks for being you

[@EllpaFox47]

i now unironically say mep as part of my autistic soundboard also, that was a REALLY good trump impersonation Matt!

[@endoftheroadhaunts]

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 💀

[@transkas]

This reminds me of a guy who believed he had ‘the force’ because his entire family acted like he can do it. And because of their act, that guy, by his own choice, went on stage with full confidence…only to be utterly embarrassed.

[@laurahamilton8868]

That's so sad.

[@manwhatdoiputhere]

Aw, poor kid

[@armeowgeddon]

this story isn't about cringe but there's this kid who, every year, is in the talent show and does the "i have all my fingers the knife goes chop chop chop" thing blindfolded as fast as he possibly can and every time he gets a standing ovation and he’s like really good at it - like 3 times the normal speed

[@projectdreamzz]

The knife game song

[@nohintshere]

that reminds me of the pair of twins at my old school who were basically contortionists

[@sarahpanther]

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

[@potatoDLR]

"like most traumatic things it begins at school" Can't think of anything more true

[@namelesslang5909]

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.

[@fuzzyalba5419]

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.

[@Kjf365]

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.

[@M87lol]

Something similar happened to me except it was some weird school play I missed lmao

[@nickkovacs6025]

6:10 Eminem's been real quiet since this dropped

[@lionessluvsu]

HHSHAHAHA

[@orang6286]

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

[@alexusbefort1992]

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.

[@carlycarmine3858]

Ah yes, the classic pie in the face gag

[@theKobus]

Keep cool, boy…

[@thebettertee]

i am imagining you all slowly walking up to her, clicking ominously.

[@alexusbefort1992]

@@thebettertee Yeah, that's pretty much what happened.

[@DaKing08]

suddenly, *circus.*

[@IndiePopit]

2:48 hearing an Undertale song in a Matt Rose video fills you with determination

[@cloosicas]

we had a talent show just a few weeks back and oh boy was it a cringe mine. the first people up were 3 girls who went by “the kikis”. they were supposed to be a band, but all they were was a girl playing the drums and two girls trying to do karaoke. one lad played Rush E on the Piano before his sister only came on and played Never Gonna Give You Up. A year 7 lad came on and did an Undertale skit. one girl tried singing naughty from Matilda, completely off time and she didn’t even know the words. a year 8 girl sung two songs, one from Frozen 2 and the other was This Girl Is On Fire. This other year 7 came up and sang Shotgun by shaun mendez. but there were some diamonds in the rough. one of my friends absolutely shredded on the violin, another played Je Te Lasserai Des Mots knowing full well his crush was in the audience, this other girl went MAD on her electric guitar and someone sang Billie Eillish pretty well. i love talent shows

[@cloosicas]

@@sploib i think everyone who was there had to hold it in, i heard a thew sniggers from the crowd though

[@B3XBP0]

4:10 matt unlocked his inner furby lmao

[@Uhnaa]

💀

[@MistyInTheCloudz]

oh nye ti aye do nom nom nom waaaa innit mate

[@Turtle_13lol]

​@@MistyInTheCloudzLMAOOOO

[@The_lamb_sauce]

@@MistyInTheCloudz”oh im not sure what to do innit mate”

[@Ben-yz7sx]

​@@MistyInTheCloudzGoogle knows furbish

[@papaG6423]

In a school play, I played a parody version of Elvis and even had a solo (full blown cover of blue-suede shoes if I remember correctly). I fully copied his voice and everything, which got a lot of laughs from the audience because normally I'm very deep and monotone with my voice. I can't even remember what the play itself was about. We had another kid play a parody version of Colonel Sanders in the same play who spent a majority of the play just making chicken puns. I wasn't embarrassed by my corny Elvis impression, but that whole play was a major fever dream. I think it was Christmas themed of all things, but I honestly can't say for sure. Also, when my school played a Disney medley on the handbells, we did little skits before each song, except for my section where I was Darth Vader and had to do my skit in the middle of the song. I was playing my handbells in my costume and had to walk up on stage to battle the kid who was playing Luke Skywalker with our plastic light sabers halfway through our cover of the imperial march. What's worse was that my cape blew into the other kids' sheet music as they kept playing, causing some of their papers to blow away and have to play from memory. It turned out pretty well in the end, but it's something funny that I like to think of every now and again.

[@oddcrafter1270]

All of that sounds fucking amazing.

[@Crimson_Screwball3446]

Can we hear ya sing heartbreak hotel?

[@carlycarmine3858]

I have a Captain Phasma costume and I occasionally just casually go to the grocery store as Captain Phasma

[@VeertjeBeertje]

@@carlycarmine3858 really?! That’s so cool!

[@carlycarmine3858]

@@VeertjeBeertje yeah, I know

[@Aria_tash]

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.

[@forrestry26]

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

[@lolnamelollastname9788]

wot

[@Alicia-zf3nq]

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

[@emogangstacatpwincess420]

what a legend

[@MrDannyDetail]

@@Alicia-zf3nq I think they might mean it was all what the kid himself had done for each project, rather than it being the other pupils' work?

[@TopazTheDragon]

For a second I read this as the dinosaur mask kids and the fight song ribbon girls were part of his act and I was so confused

[@solarstarr_]

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]

This is the saddest one by far I hope she kept dancing

[@EF-kk3vh]

That's an awesome song and I'm sure she did an awesome dance :( this sucks I hope she's ok now

[@Luna_tech2]

That’s so rude of the teenage boys, imagine if they were in her shoes.

[@solarstarr_]

@@Luna_tech2 teenage boys have zero empathy 🤦‍♀️

[@solarstarr_]

@@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

[@alys__drummer]

Not a cringe disaster, but an epic masterpiece: not long ago some guy on my college course played the entirety of Chop Suey! by SOAD on a banjo!

[@AutumnGemKitty]

Lmao I'm currently in a System Of A Down phase and this I would never imagine 😂 Imagine if he did Boom! or Fuck The System 🤣🤣

[@byates1976]

Absolutely amazing. So much respect for him

[@theKobus]

Great idea. I have a friend who plays banjo and does a set of 80s dance music (sweet dreams, safety dance)- this would mix things up nicely

[@qiqi_playz4554]

6:20 this is what matt should have done on the talent show

[@yoshibutimterrariapixelart1923]

I have literally never done a talent show. Closest I've done is a spelling bee. *However.* The Game Expo, 2023, Melbourne. I was cosplaying BLU Scout. And I have the talent to be able to do the Kazotski Kick, a taunt in-game that is very difficult to do. And I gained a few people's respect by doing that taunt. Glorious times. Thanks for all the work you put into your videos, Matt!

[@projectxv3066]

I want to be able to do that but it’s stupid hard

[@judet2992]

NEEDAHDISPENSAHEAHH

[@yoshibutimterrariapixelart1923]

@@judet2992 yes, indeed, THAT HARDHAT'S A FRICKIN SPY!

[@redfoxlol101]

@@yoshibutimterrariapixelart1923That scout’s a bloody- Sentry- WOOOHOHAHAHAH YOHOHAAAAHOHOHO

[@chellcarter7684]

My school, grades Kindergarten to 9, had a talent show the year Frozen came out. You can probably imagine how many absolutely incredible (i.e. terrible) covers of Let It Go were performed. One act was two girls who knew less than half the lyrics, kept messing up, and had to restart the song multiple times. It was hilarious.

[@Jarfig]

Time to get back onto that talent show stage, man. I for one am VERY IMPRESSED at your bottle flipping skills. 👏 👏

[@peterharper8216]

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.

[@meetaverma8372]

The fact that Matt decided to get on as many TV shows as he can, made me realize, Matt Rose is what I aspire to be

[@stormy1303]

Once, at my school, when I was like...six years old, there was this talent show that was thrown together in like... ten minutes by the teachers, and we had to prepare something to perform in front of them. We were given like... twenty or so minutes to prepare something (yes, not even a day, the teachers just threw this together to keep us entertained), so six year old me decided it's time to ... write a song. I literally speedran writing lyrics for an original song, I was finished in like... five minutes, coming up with the melody as I went along. And even though the melody is not documented anywhere, I still remember it. For some reason. And it's bad. Anyways, i performed the song. Just... imagine a six year old child with a voice sounding like a mouse that's high on cocaine, singing a sloppily made song about being alone in the forest in front of a bunch of teachers, and a couple other six year olds watching, everything embarrassingly silent except for the sound of my voice. Obviously, I didn't win. Also, i took it all really, REALLY seriously, despite the songwriting speedrun at the beginning. And, I really wish I remembered more of the lyrics other than the chorus, so that I could fully revisit the painful memories of this thing

[@stucq]

oh my god what were the lyrics to the chorus

[@stargurl__211]

i relate to this one on a personal level. when i was in third grade my friend convinced me to perform in the talent show with him. we wrote an original song with a message about how "nobody is perfect". the lyrics, unsurprisingly, were absolutely horrendous. i remember the chorus, and maybe some other lyrics, and the whole experience was probably the most embarrassing thing i've ever done. it was just the two of us in a large auditorium singing a horrible song to literally no music in front of half the school. needless to say, we were made fun of for almost a month after.

[@arvinroidoatienza7082]

Upload it!

[@TheHolyBoink]

I must know the chorus

[@stormy1303]

@@stargurl__211 Yes, that's exactly how I feel about that song I made Except that I only had to perform my song in front of my class, some teachers and... one other class I think? Still, it's painful to look back on

[@anonymoususer9197]

Why has this dude been everywhere on British tv? First a bake show now this? Where has he not been???😂

[@misc1453]

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'.

[@Yote_Yammers]

This video makes me feel better about the time I forgot what day the talent show was on. For some background, this talent show had auditions in a private room with the judges who were year 7s while I was year 6 I think. A few were then picked to go in stage. No teachers involved, no parents present to. I got through the audition by singing 'All I ever wanted' by Basshunter (anyone who used flip note hatenna on the DS knows why) where I proceeded to get laughed at because of the line "and I want to have you in my bed" my 9 year old ass did not understand why they were laughing but hey, it was good enough to get through. Now the day of the finals came and I did not know it was that day so I was not prepared at all. I had promised my sister I'd do a specific song (don't know why really) that I did not know the lyrics of at all because it was some obscure song she liked that was also from a flipnote. I then proceeded to have a panic attack at lunch before the show while trying to piece together what the lyrics might be along with a few friends that had no idea what song I was on about. Went on stage in front of my entire primary school. No background music. Just me and a crumpled piece of paper with my shitty handwriting. I started. I begun to panic then froze up. Don't even remember getting off the stage I think my brain literally turned off from the shock of it all. Just remember standing in the crowd after with tears just down my face. Didn't sing in front of people again for years and still have trauma from it to this day 😔✌️ It's been 10 years since then Might be doing a karaoke thing with some friends soon so hope that goes well and that the alcohol I consume beforehand will balance out the weight of my anxiety guhh

[@icantthinkofaname6397]

Oof that's rough, good luck with the karaoke if you do it! I hope it goes well and you enjoy yourself :)

[@idyllic58]

goodness i was absolutely obsessed with bass hunter and italobrothers bc of flipnote hatena. so sorry that you have that linked to such a traumatic memory D:

[@RailfoxStudios]

For what it’s worth, nobody ever does karaoke with the expectation of sounding like Ariana Grande. Depending on the place you’re singing at, sometimes being awful at singing can be part of the fun. Humans have been making art, music and other such things for thousands of years. Doing stuff like singing is just a thing humans *do*, regardless of whether they’re good or not, a bit like how birds chirp and build nests as just like…a thing birds do. The way I see it, singing at a karaoke bar is just a way of indulging in a normal, human habit without the weird social judgment of whether or not you’re “good” at it. Lord knows I’m not a big fan of Country music but that hasn’t stopped others from enjoying it. “Good” is subjective, singing is a habit as old as a cave painting, and karaoke bars basically never have the pressure to sing well. I love going to them precisely because I can’t sing well and I still love doing the act of singing despite this.

[@HollieHewitt369]

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]

A Simpsons version of Deck the Halls? Like the lyrics are changed to be centred around the Simpsons?

[@HollieHewitt369]

@@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.

[@BenSpace]

@@HollieHewitt369 Ohhhh okay, that makes sense. Explains why I haven’t heard it before too. Yeah from just that part alone it sounds… interesting lol

[@al_rusty420]

As a trombonist myself I can say, while not very difficult to play or impressive, it still is really fun to play. Especially if it’s with the pep band.

[@WafflesssFalling]

It's fun to watch too! I have happy memories from high school (that makes me sound old omg, I'm only 21 💀) of when I'd hang out with a friend during sport games where she had to play in band- since of course she wasn't playing the entire time we'd have fun talking and stuff!

[@yurtnurtgarr]

Currently playing trombone, can agree

[@JubileeBloom]

6:41 I MISREAD CHILI AS CHILD

[@MistyInTheCloudz]

ate a child

[@The_lamb_sauce]

@@MistyInTheCloudzI love doing that!

[@LeriHunter]

The trombone solo of Everytime we Touch would have sure been something to behold. Anyway, the worst I had to deal was the peak of "Gangnam Style", as in, imagine 24 kids passing one after the others with two third of them singing Gangnam style, and half of them thinking that simply "speaking" (not even singing) in korean would be enough to endear the jury, and the last one coming with a shiny sequin jacket SCREAMING the lyrics out with his vocal chords.

[@inkling457]

I was once planning to do a talent show with my ex best friend. Frozen was all the rage, so she wanted to sing "Let It Go". I was one of the only kids who never watched Frozen , because my parents were kind of poor. So I had no fucking clue what the lyrics were. I practiced them for WEEKS after that, while she fooled around every practice session. SHE DECIDED TO DO IT ALONE WHEN I COULDN'T COME FOR ONE TRYOUT. I'm still bitter, all that practice for nothing. I had all the lyrics memorized by that point.

[@donpollo3154]

I can see why you refer to her as your ex best friend now

[@inkling457]

@don pollo Honestly the reason we broke things off was not because of that, cuz she was in reality, a very sweet and funny person. Later down the line I was just a creepy 14 yr old teenager with a massive crush on her, who pushed for her to go out with me way too many times, to the point where she no longer spoke to me and the school basically put a restraining order on me. For context, she was straight. There's not a single day I don't regret that, cuz she was like the only person in that whole school who understood my interests. But I was very stupid as a kid. I'm currently 20, that memory still makes me want to die.

[@Mama-Luigi]

@@inkling457 jesus fucking christ what a plot twist

[@gordonramsayslambsauce]

@@Mama-Luigiright??? what the fuck did i just read omg

[@DarskideDraws]

sounds like she let you go

[@AltairsConstellation]

I was about 12 and in deep into my Hamilton phase and I dragged two friends into the musical as well. Our school did an annual talent show at the end of the year. I, being a huge showoff, had my friends sing Guns and Ships with me. But it gets worse! Every person who signed up was allowed to sign up twice, probably because no one was interested. So not only did I rap Guns and Ships very poorly, I also sang Dear Theodosia. Both parts. By myself.

[@captaincomic8678]

2:33 See this could've been great if they had cosplayed as Yu-Gi-Oh! characters and been intentionally loud and overdramatic when playing, make it a fucking live episode performance. That would've been hilarious.