The Gross-Out Gurus: Ryan Stock and AmberLynn Make the AGT Crowd SQUIRM! 🤢🔨

The stage of America’s Got Talent (AGT) has seen everything from soaring opera singers to dazzling illusionists. But every so often, an act arrives that doesn’t just entertain—it tests the audience’s gag reflex. That act, in this unforgettable audition, was the shocking and strangely endearing duo, Ryan Stock and AmberLynn.

Their performance, titled “Ryan Stock And AmberLynn Make The Crowd SQUIRM!,” is a masterclass in modern sideshow and extreme stunt work, designed to provoke maximum discomfort while earning reluctant applause. It’s a truly wild ride that even left the judges—including the germaphobe-in-chief, Howie Mandel—recoiling in a mix of horror and fascination.

A Love Story Built on Pain and Fairies 💔🧚

Before the gross-out stunts began, Ryan and AmberLynn introduced themselves with a surprising and sweet backstory. They are a couple, having met 15 years ago at a festival. Ryan, an entertainer, found AmberLynn “dressed as a fairy crying in an alley”. He hired her as his assistant, and they’ve been inseparable ever since, working together “24 hours a day, seven days a week for the last 15 years”.

This bizarrely romantic origin story—a hardened stuntman finding his partner in a weeping fairy—provided a necessary contrast to the bizarre, dangerous, and disgusting show they were about to put on. It established them as two people who genuinely love each other, and who happen to express that love through the painful insertion of metal into their bodies.

The Warm-Up: Real Scissors, Real Nose ✂️👃

The duo began their act with a seemingly simple, yet immediately unsettling, warm-up. Ryan started with a pair of scissors and called on Howie Mandel to inspect them, ensuring they were “real scissors”.

The first stunt involved Ryan inserting the sharp end of the scissors into his nose. While the audience grimaced, the moment reached peak gross-out when he pulled the scissors out and then—to the audience’s utter disgust—ran his tongue along the wet blade. Ryan’s perfectly disgusting retort: “If licking snot off of scissors is wrong, I don’t want to be right.” The entire theater shuddered, a collective “Ew!” escaping the crowd. This was not a delicate magic trick; this was pure, unadulterated human body horror.

The Grand Finale: The Human Meat Hook ⛓️😵

The warm-up quickly escalated to the main event, which Ryan dubbed “The Human Wheat Head”. AmberLynn brought out a long, curved meat hook described as 15 inches long and “solid steel sharpened on one end”.

The tension became unbearable as Ryan calmly and carefully inserted the massive hook through his nose and into his throat. The process was agonizing to watch, and the camera cuts to the audience—and especially to Howie Mandel—showed people physically recoiling, hands covering their faces, and mouths gaping in disbelief.

But the act wasn’t over. For the terrifying grand finale, Ryan used the hook, which was now protruding from his nose and out of his mouth, to suspend himself mid-air. AmberLynn then attached a chain to the hook’s handle, and Ryan lifted his feet off the ground, hanging his entire body weight from the thin piece of metal piercing his head. It was a shocking display of extreme body control and pain tolerance that sent the crowd into a squirming, screaming frenzy.

The Verdict: Disgusted, but Delighted 💯

The performance was so intense that Mel B had to ask for an explanation of the final stunt because she “just can’t watch it”. Howie, despite his discomfort, was fascinated. The judges’ critique perfectly summarized the collective feeling:

• Mel B (Voted No): “I love this kind of act but I just can’t watch it”. She couldn’t watch, but she was deeply curious about the “crying fairy” who joined his macabre world.

• Howie Mandel (Voted Yes): Howie admitted it was “the most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen, but I loved it“. His fascination overcame his fear of germs.

• Simon Cowell (Voted Yes): Simon, after apologizing to America in advance, confirmed that the sheer shock value and originality of the act earned him a pass: “You’ve got three yeses”.

Ryan Stock and AmberLynn didn’t just audition; they dared the audience to look away, and in doing so, they created one of the most memorable and squirm-inducing auditions in AGT history. They proved that sometimes, true talent lies not in what you can sing or dance, but in what kind of pain you can withstand for the sake of entertainment. They earned their three yeses and a collective stomach ache from the viewers.