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jocdoc Inner circle Carlsbad, CA 1183 Posts |
This ones' for the political junkies out there. My friend, Mike Smith, taught me another version of oil and water last night. I came up with the following script while walking my dog this AM. I suspect that I'll modify it some more as I perform it (as usual). Hope you all like it! [Feel free to use/adapt for your own purposes.]
jeff in san diego ---------- Anybody real happy with the 2 party system? We have Democrats. We have Republicans. We have red states. We have blue states. What ever happened to bipartisanship? [I always loved what Woody Allen said: “Being “Bi” automatically doubles your chances of getting a date on a Saturday night.”] Basically, each party tries to sell us a load of bullcrap about how totally different they are from their counterpart. The reality is that the American public has wised up considerably and has realized that they’re all pretty much the same bunch of jerks/a**holes. Let’s demonstrate. Here’s a group of Democrats (point to red group) and here’s a bunch of Republicans (indicate the black cards without mentioning the color). They’re meeting in their respective partisan committees dealing with sensitive matters of state such as their own retirement packages, book deals and lucrative speaking engagements. We’ll take a red Democrat here and place him into the committee of Republicans. We’ll take a black Republican - it could happen…..- and place him into the Democratic committee. See what happens? They become indistinguishable from one another because they’re all jerks/a**holes. Maybe it’s just that a single legislator cannot be effective when overwhelmed by the opposite party. To test this hypothesis, let’s mix two and two of each party. We’ll take two red Democrats and two Black Republicans - keep dreaming…. - and swap their committees. Doesn’t matter; they all become jerks/a**holes once again. I know what you’re thinking…perhaps leadership matters? Ok, let’s try this. Here are the two leaders of each party. Now, we’ll totally switch out the rest of the committee members under different leaders. Amazing! They all become jerks/a**holes once again! So, let’s review what we’ve learned. We can try integrating the parties as such: we have a Democrat and a Republican on the far left; we have a Democrat and a Republican pair on the far right. We have another pair smack dab right here in the middle. We look at them once again and they immediately return back to their partisan jerk/a**hole status. Sad, isn’t it. Why couldn’t life be more like President Jack Nicholson said in the epic science fiction movie Mars Attacks? In other words… “Can’t we all just get along?” [Show the final spread of interspersed red/black cards] The preceding has not been a paid political announcement.
Life is an improv. The game goes on...
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jocdoc Inner circle Carlsbad, CA 1183 Posts |
This has become a popular trick in light of the current conventions. I've since added some nuances/adlibs to the script... (in no particular order)
I decided to use: 2 kings, 2 queens (all red) for the democrats and 2 kings, 2 jacks (all black) for the republicans. During the reveals, when a red queen shows up, I remark that you'll only find queens in the democratic party. Instead of "another pair smack dab right here in the middle" we now have "centrists from both parties." At one point when I'm revealing that the cards have all changed over to one color, I'll throw in a Star Trek Borg reference i.e. they are assimilated (resistance is futile). I'll try to make a video of the performance and post it soon.
Life is an improv. The game goes on...
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magic4u02 Eternal Order Philadelphia, PA 15110 Posts |
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On 2008-08-23 12:04, jocdoc wrote:We’ll take a black Republican - it could happen…..- Funniest line in the history of magic! |
jocdoc Inner circle Carlsbad, CA 1183 Posts |
Ok, I posted a video performance of this routine that we recorded at a street fair today (for Sprained Angles' Original Chickmagnets!). Sound quality not necessarily the best and the videographer apparently had a fascination with my crotch. Otherwise, this will give you some idea as to how the routine works. It is a large file at 136 MB and - no, for the record - I'm NOT giving up my day job...
The video can be found at the bottom of my magic scrapbook page (link is at bottom of post). [note: I'll be working a picnic for Wounded Warriors, based out of Camp Pendleton, next week. I may be able to record some better performances. If so, I'll replace the current one.]
Life is an improv. The game goes on...
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