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Merenkov Elite user 413 Posts |
For a charity fundraiser, a local company is putting on a comedy show at a comedy club, with their employees performing stand-up comedy acts. I have a friend who is doing a comedy magic show, and it is actually quite hilarious. She is a naturally funny person, and has intuitively put together a devastating parody of the most pretentious magician you have ever seen.
Several times during her act, she describes the miracle she is about to perform, but the trick goes terribly awry. I think a great finish would be for her to describe a final, impossible-sounding effect, so ludicrous that it seems like the set-up for another gag, but then actually do it, actually perform the miracle she has just described. This is a toughie, I know. Any ideas? |
Harry Murphy Inner circle Maryland 5444 Posts |
Produce a person from a flat cardboard box. Ok, old as the hills, but rarely (never) seen today, easy as can be, and inexpensive to put together. Downside, it needs an assistant that knows what to do (dare I say rehearsal time is a must?).
Or for a smaller and more self contained trick, the torn and restored news paper (Anderson’s). Keep picking up a page of the paper and tearing it throughout the act. Put the pile of torn papers down on a side table or chair and do the next trick. Keep going back to the torn and restored by taking a page tearing it up, not restoring it and putting the pieces down on top of the earlier pieces. At the end of the act, pick up all the torn sheets and restore them to the full newspaper. Page through it and bow off. Or borrow, have signed, and destroy (burn)/vanish a large bill ($100 is best but a $20 will do) then fail to find it in repeated attempts (from different places) and even find a bill signed by someone else at one point (“Oh that’s where that one went! Gosh it’s been a year since I did that!…etc.). Finally find it in a lemon/balloon, small ribbon tied box, inside an envelope mailed from China in you wallet, etc., etc., etc. The act ends, she takes her bow and starts to walk off and then remembers the bill. Tries one more time and finds it in the impossible place. Or…I could go on and on but this ought to get your creative juices flowing. Anyone else?
The artist formally known as Mumblepeas!
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Magic from A to Z Elite user Sweet Home Alabama 482 Posts |
Use a velcro instant tear apart change bag where you ask to borrow a partcipant's watch and place in the bag and bring out a hammer. You proceed to take the hammer and beat the watch through the bag saying that you're going to restore the watch in a magical way. Once done, you shake a little and pull the bag apart only to have pieces of the "watch" falling everywhere. Finally, produce the watch from somewhere else, maybe underneath her coat(if she wears one) only to find her watch with serveral other watches.
Another idea just popped into my mind. What about The Vanishing Bandanna Trick from the FAB Magic Company? That's a couple ideas.... |
Merenkov Elite user 413 Posts |
All good ideas. Thanks guys. Anyone else?
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