America’s Got Talent, even the notoriously tough Simon Cowell, and finished as a quarterfinalist. During her first appearance, the judges asked why Scotti, who was well into middle age, hadn’t become a comedian earlier in her life.
The answer was that she had — under the name of Rick Scotti.Rick Scotti had toured with Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock, had opened for musicians including Lou Rawls, Chicago, and Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and was married with two children.