"Teenage Wasteland," The Tonight Show, April 7, 2005: Contestant Number One pumps up a balloon with his armpit and releases it into the audience. "It was kind of weird and gross," USU "borderline junior" Nick Creamer recalls. The second act consists of twin girls who pop a penny simultaneously off a tendon in their ankles. Their aim isn't that good, and Jay Leno grabs the pennies as they fly through the air and then dunks them into a bowl.

The final act is Creamer, who strides on stage and looks at Leno and thinks, "He looks like a dead guy with all that make-up on." He faces the audience and puts a Starburst wrapper in his mouth - 24 seconds later his tongue sticks out, with a paper airplane perched on the tip. The audience gasps. "Are you serious? That kid can do that?" says a lady sitting next to Creamer's mother in the audience.

"It comes naturally," Creamer says. "I don't have to train my tongue. I think anybody can do it, though it takes most people who have tried about five minutes. Basically I inhale the wrapper, break the corners into pieces, pop the seam, put my tongue under the wrapper and suck really hard, rolling it around in my mouth, and then the wrapper rolls off my tongue as if it were on a conveyor belt. I can also take two Starburst wrappers and tie them together in a double knot. If you do a single knot, it comes undone."

Origin of act: "I saw this Starburst commercial," says Creamer, "and the girlfriend put her boyfriend in his place by sticking a wrapper in her mouth and turning it into a paper swan. Awesome, I thought, so I ran down to the supermarket and bought a bag of Starbursts and spent the rest of the night seeing what I could do. Why an airplane? Because aviation is the profession I'm going into."

Talent agent: Creamer's mother Tami, who after watching a segment of "Teenage Wasteland," remarked, "My son is a lot more entertaining than that," and emailed The Tonight Show a description of her son's unique talent

Producer's reaction to the DVD of Nick's "act": "It's a Friday and it's very hard to make me laugh on a Friday. On Monday anybody can make me laugh. But on a Friday, after I've seen hundreds of these tapes, well, that's impressive, kid."

Wife's reaction to Creamer's two minutes of fame: "All the practice he gets rolling around those wrappers in his mouth makes him a really great kisser," says Lisa.

Creamer's major: Aviation technology. "When you drive a car, you're stuck to the road. In an airplane you have unlimited freedom. The only boundary is the ground. Other than that you can go anywhere."

Professional ambitions: To fly corporate jets. Creamer hopes to cover some of the costs of this year's flight training with the proceeds from a Starburst commercial. The ad agency hasn't responded yet to his proposal. -Jane Koerner