So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye. Today: Tom Mullica cue: "Paper Planes" Tom Mullica gained notoriety for seemingly eating a pack of lit cigarettes with bar napkins as a chaser, a routine he called "Nicotine Nincompoop." He last performed it in 2000. A 2002 British…
Posts tagged magic week
Wanderlust
Charles Barkley: 1 Dwyane, 2 Ernie, 3 Kenny, Stan. [dialing] ?: Las Vegas Hilton SuperBook. Stan speaking. Barkley: Stan! It's Charles! Stan: Hey! What's up? Barkley: I want to propose a bet. Stan: I thought you quit gambling. Barkley: This isn't gambling. This is betting….
Sparkle and Fade
I gotta keep it goin', keep it goin', full steam. Today: Penn and Teller A long time ago, Penn and Teller rung in a new year on Fox by failing to escape from a champagne torture tank. I couldn't find video. Penn sang "Auld Lang…
The Most Dangerous Game
stepping up my effort to completely alienate what little audience we have… —did you ever play magic? —I'm afraid that's one skeleton that is missing from my closet —did you ever play magic? —ive watched people play it —my friends and i once agreed that…
Dirty Water
It was either magic or Brett Favre. Today: The Amazing Johnathan "Over the weekend, I saw this magician on Comedy Central swig Windex from the bottle. It looked cool… Let me see the script." Señora Kaye assigned a group video project for Spanish III class….
Chest Pains
an idea i've been kicking around since april Today: The Pendragons and Melinda, the First Lady of Magic The Pendragons are a husband-and-wife duo who frequently appeared on television in the 90s. Every time I saw them, however, they performed the same trick! The two…
Adamcadabra
Yes, I'm serious. Deal with it. Today: David Copperfield In April 2006, Copperfield and two female assistants were robbed at gunpoint after a performance in West Palm Beach. According to his police statement, Copperfield did not hand over anything, claiming that he used sleight-of-hand to…