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Implosion New user 20 Posts |
I recently tried to purchase the comedy egg can trick, and was disappointed to find out after ordering that the shop had run out. No other shops seem to carry it, so I can only assume it's no longer being made. Does anyone have any more info on who makes/made it and whether it's gone for good?
I know it's kind of a silly trick, but there's a bit of nostalgia attached to it for me. Growing up, I lived next door to a performing magician and this was one of the effects in his repertoire. Recently the memory resurfaced, and I decided I'd seek it out. Any help is appreciated! |
jimgerrish Inner circle East Orange, NJ 3209 Posts |
I've got a garbage bag filled with them to take out to the curb on recycling night. What size would you like? You do realize that the can has nothing to do with the trick?
Jim Gerrish
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Bill Hegbli Eternal Order Fort Wayne, Indiana 22797 Posts |
The Don Alan Comedy Egg Trick was a U.F. Grant (now Mak Magic) trick. Mak Magic is having them made in India now. I was on television as a young man, and decided to do this trick. Sorry, no video back then, did not even get to see it myself.
I know www.stoners.com has the trick in stock and on the shelf. Now I do "Bongo'a Bloomer", which is an opaque Glass, and the surprise is a bouquet of spring flowers on the spectators head. I use the egg instead of a milk pitcher. http://www.magicinc.net/bongosbloomer.aspx It is a fun trick and fun to perform. It use to be called the "Blooming Idiot", but times have changed. |
Julie Inner circle 3936 Posts |
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On Aug 18, 2015, jimgerrish wrote: For the record, this is incorrect information. The original U.F. Grant version of Don Alan's Comedy Egg Trick did indeed have a specially modified canister. Julie |
Implosion New user 20 Posts |
Jim, I know how the trick works, like I said, my interest is based more in nostalgia.
Bill, thanks for the lead. I don't see the trick listed at Stoners online -- you think if I get in touch with them directly they'll have it? |
jimgerrish Inner circle East Orange, NJ 3209 Posts |
And here I've been doing it for years with just an ordinary recycled tin can! The only modification needed was to remove the lid and file down the edges to keep from getting cut while using it. I feel so cheap! I should have bought the gaudy looking U.F. Grant tin can at the magic store but I needed the money for frivolous things like food and bus fare. And my flowers looked like realistic flowers from Woolworth's instead of tissue paper artificial folding thingees. And I broke real eggs into the can instead of empty shells (as described in my "Ungimmicked Egg Bag" routine in the Kid Show Magic section at the Magic Nook). I feel so ashamed for not performing the trick the way Don Alan, Ali Bongo and other famous magicians were doing. And my worst sin was, I actually did use an ordinary ungimmicked bag for my egg bag. Oh, the shame of it!
Jim Gerrish
magicnook@yahoo.com https://www.magicnook.com Home of The Wizards' Journals: https://magicnook.com/wizardsTOC.htm |
Bill Hegbli Eternal Order Fort Wayne, Indiana 22797 Posts |
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On Aug 18, 2015, Implosion wrote: They have a toll free number, it has been a standard item on their shelves for 50 years. Doesn't hurt to call them. |
Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts |
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On Aug 18, 2015, jimgerrish wrote: Due note has been taken, and, I'm going to tell! You will soon be served notice by the I Bother Magicians club, and, also the Some Are Magicians club, that your talisman and amulet have been burned and your wand destroyed by the Magic Dealers Association, and the presiding potentate of the inner magic square.
SNEAKY, UNDERHANDED, DEVIOUS,& SURREPTITIOUS ITINERANT MOUNTEBANK
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jimgerrish Inner circle East Orange, NJ 3209 Posts |
Adding injury to insult. I'd better get used to it because I'm about to do it again, this time with beach balls replacing Okito's silver sphere within a wild game of knocking down the floating beach balls by the audience.
Jim Gerrish
magicnook@yahoo.com https://www.magicnook.com Home of The Wizards' Journals: https://magicnook.com/wizardsTOC.htm |
Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
Jim Gerrish, your rant was wholly unprovoked. Julie was offering a correction of historical fact. Nowhere in her post was she claiming your "doing it for years with just an ordinary recycled tin can!" was wrong.
There is nothing wrong with creating an alternate method. While I can't speak for her, I suspect she has no argument with that. Being ignorant to facts is usually excusable. If a person doesn't know something, they don't know it. All of us are capable of making incorrect statements. We are also capable of learning from someone else who knows more than we do. But, displaying a snarky attitude when corrected does not exactly put one in the best light. It is true that the trick in question can be performed with an ungimmicked can. It is also true that the cans were not always ungimmicked. In light of the fact that Implosion was seeking a prop he had seen many years ago, there is too little information to know definitively if that can was gimmicked, or not. There was no adding "injury to insult", because I saw no insults thrown. I saw incorrect information being corrected.
~michael baker
The Magic Company |
jimgerrish Inner circle East Orange, NJ 3209 Posts |
Michael: I guess you don't understand my sense of humor. Or Dick Oslund's. Unless he was being serious. I apologize for offending you with comedy. I thought the topic (Comedy Egg Can) could use some.
Jim Gerrish
magicnook@yahoo.com https://www.magicnook.com Home of The Wizards' Journals: https://magicnook.com/wizardsTOC.htm |
Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
I guess I don't.
~michael baker
The Magic Company |
The Baldini Inner circle I some how pounded in 2445 Posts |
My 2 cents, I use the original I purchased almost 30 years ago and it does entertain. it is a wonderful effect.
Jim, you are a funny dude, keep it up, but try to plug your site a bit more. Wiz Kid is awesome. |
Bill Hegbli Eternal Order Fort Wayne, Indiana 22797 Posts |
James Rainho has a little different version using a Foo Cup. Same kind of routine, but different.
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plink Special user 661 Posts |
I use to end my birthday party shows with the Egg Can by using it to produce balloons.
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stempleton Inner circle 1443 Posts |
Not to belabor this, but this was one I always wanted as a kid as well. If I remember, a blown egg was not used, but a real egg. Am I wrong in this, and if not, where can one find this these days?
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The Baldini Inner circle I some how pounded in 2445 Posts |
Steve. You can use either one.
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Bill Hegbli Eternal Order Fort Wayne, Indiana 22797 Posts |
No, you cannot use either unless you add another prop.
The Foo Mug uses a real egg, or liquid, the Don Alan can uses a milk pitcher or a blown egg. In my presentation, I group several trick together, I perform Fantasio candle to silk, then go into comedy silk to egg, then break the egg in a glass to display the egg, then perform egg in paper plus to vanish the egg yoke. I then perform Malini Egg bag, then break that egg after the final production into the Don Alan Egg Can. I invite a spectator up and set them in a chair. Perform Egg Can or recent years do Ali Bonge's Bloomin' stooge. This is has been my sequence of routines for 50 years. It flows nicely from one routine to the next, and keep things moving. Sometimes I preform Neil Foster Newspaper Center Tear, after the comedy silk to egg, then continue as stated. If you have an ring to bill to egg effect, that would play as well. Always look at your routining, so you don't just have a collection of unrelated tricks. Being there are two spectator's on stage for the Ebb Bag, I then usually follow that up with a "Just Chance" aka "Bank Night" routine. |
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