Comedian Mike Newall had Britain's Got Talent judges laughing with his deadpan routine, and Simon Cowell commented that he reminded him of a certain rock and roll star.
Mike, from Cheadle, entertained the judging panel and audience at The Lowry theatre with his jokes about bath bombs. At first Mike wondered how the crowd would receive him, saying: "It's a northern crowd hopefully they'll like what I do." Unfortunately they didn't exactly warm to his stinging opening joke about a break-up. "We were in a serious relationship.
Serious because we didn't have fun together," he said. But he won them over with his observational comedy about bath products usually only received as Christmas or birthday gifts. "It was like being at an Oasis concert
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