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This probably won't be news to many, but I'm not really a cutting edge political comic.

Their Vegas show, playing for the last ten years, is the height of what magic can be. A perfect concept, immaculately executed and spot on comic timing from Teller.

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This clip from their UK series shows why they remain at the top of their game.

Teller has to be one of the wisest and kindest men in magic, and Penn and I share a profound love of dessert. Not only that, but offstage they have been nothing less than mentors to me. The spot I did on Fool Us in 2011 went viral and made my act so well known, it even inspired a Russian copydragon. To say Penn & Teller have been good to me is something of an understatement. It takes a while to get into it, but skip forward two and a half minutes, and you have a tie singing Harry Belafonte. But by far and away my favourite is this singing tie routine. Sure, it might be high on the camp and heavy on the billow, but there is no doubt he took magic to a level of perfection no one has really matched.īut who'd have thought Copperfield could do comedy? Look up his duck routine. So it was only few years ago that I finally laid aside my prejudice and re-watched his work. What did he do, I wondered, that was so bad they locked him in Alcatraz, but not bad enough they couldn't televise his escape? The first memory I have of Copperfield is watching him escape from Alcatraz. The sequence with the dove is just perfect. This clip is one of my favourites as, although I can't speak a word of Swedish, so have no idea what he is saying, he takes the audience on a journey from indifference to delight, disgust to bewilderment, shock to amazement in just over five minutes. A complete antidote to the egotists I grew up hating and always an inspiration. He breaks all the rules of magic and taught me that a magician can be vulnerable, lost, lonely, and loveable.

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His shorter spots don't really do justice to the carnage, chaos and complete uniqueness of his full show. I saw him at Edinburgh in 2005 at a guest spot in La Clique, and watched his solo show almost daily for a week. Thank God for YouTube.Ĭarl Einar Hackner has a very special place in my heart. There are acts who have spent their entire lives working far inferior six minute acts. I don't know how many times Martin performed this, but it wasn't enough. Developed alongside Ricky Jay and Peter Pit, this act was performed on Carson and really what more could you want? It's all in the details the hanging basket, the way the girl tucks the phone line back in, the curtain call bubbles. Steve Martin started out in magic shops in Disneyland and obviously retained enough of an interest to create Flydini. Ricky Jay was also responsible for what I consider one of the greatest acts of all time. The rabbit that will find your card or die remains one of my favourite moments. This section came out of the blue, amid a series of studied expositions on the nature and fate of card magic, presented with the same deadpan seriousness and pure eloquence as the rest of the show. What I didn't expect was to lose my shit over one of the funniest routines I've ever witnessed. I queued for three hours to get the last two tickets at the back of the rake and expected to see the greatest sleight of hand artist working today.

I was 15 when Jay played a season at the Old Vic, much to the disgust of critic Nicholas de Jongh. This clip, one of only three I could find, features Tom Mullica eating far too many lit cigarettes, almost as an aside to an otherwise lovely card trick. It single-handledly changed my perception of what magic was, what it could be, and it's safe to say, without it, I would not be spending the majority of my life in a heavily pocketed onesie. Then along came Stuff the White Rabbit, hosted by John Lenahan and featuring acts like Jerry Sadowitz, David Williamson, Amazing Jonathan and on and on. Whether it was the smug, quipping tricksters insulting audiences in the 80's, or the illusionists with wind machined hair, pointing at large boxes like life in a glamorous Dixons stockroom, it all left me cold. Growing up it's fair to say I hated magic.