Favourite magician/illusionist/psychic

Samich

Dynamo and Derren Brown are my favourite. David Blaine has obviously done some amazing things too :P

Mr Benevolent

Enda Kenny. Enda thread.

spirit_77

FLATHAN

rednik

Tommy Cooper RIP just like that.

grindle

Confab wrote: »

Enda Kenny. Enda thread.

Delusionist =/= Illusionist.

Snakeblood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clCdUIlFc7Y

I love the amazing Johnathan. Cower as he eats five razor blades!

cocoshovel

I didnt think this was something people generally follow, let alone have a "favorite". The most magic Ive seen is either that magic show they gave us in primary school or david blaine stuck in a box on tv.

Also op I should note that Kagawa is Japanese, not Chinese, just incase you wanted to fix your sig :pac:

mauzo

I love Derren Brown too, would love to go and see him.

Where To

rednik wrote: »

Tommy Cooper RIP just like that.

Legend.

nice_very

Derren Brown by a mile, due to the fact that he explains, at length, what he was doing/the real purpose of the illusion/how it was done etc..

Mrs Garth Brooks

Keith Barry is brilliant.

Lollers

http://www.chemistry-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Gob2.jpg

Teyla Emmagan

I'm not into any of them.

This has been a useful contribution to the thread, hasn't it?

Bipolar Joe

nice_very wrote: »

Derren Brown by a mile, due to the fact that he explains, at length, what he was doing/the real purpose of the illusion/how it was done etc..

Read his books, you'll end up confused as to whether or not anything he says is true, including the stuff in the books.

Sonics2k

Always been a fan of Penn and Teller to be honest.

BlaasForRafa

Ze number vun psychic in ze world Flathan of course!

Anyvun who disagrees vill have to renowate zeir flat for ze next year.

Dave0301

Does Jesus count?

admiralofthefleet

rednik wrote: »

Tommy Cooper RIP just like that.

it wasnt like that, it was like that

even though he messed up, it was part of the act. in reality he was a very gifted magician and an excellent comedian

cocoshovel

cocoshovel wrote: »

I didnt think this was something people generally follow, let alone have a "favorite".

Exactly. Most people are naming the only two or three magicians they've every heard of as their 'favourite'.

Samich

Deleted User wrote: »

Exactly. Most people are naming the only two or three magicians they've every heard of as their 'favourite'.

I've heard of Derek Acorah, Keith Barry, David Blaine, Yuri Gellar, David Copperfield, Penn & Teller but I chose Derren Brown and Dynamo

Jesus Wept

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

Keith Barry is brilliant.

He's terribad.

admiralofthefleet

Samich wrote: »

I've heard of Derek Acorah, Keith Barry, David Blaine, Yuri Gellar, David Copperfield, Penn & Teller but I chose Derren Brown and Dynamo

he's an hallucinagenic scouser, not a magician. sam is probably the fella on the dole counter

Samich

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

he's an hallucinagenic scouser, not a magician. sam is probably the fella on the dole counter

psychic

Lando Griffin

You'll like this...not alot but you will like it....Paul Daniels for me.
Put the gic back into magic when times were tough and we all had one telly.
And Debbie McGee wouldnt minded having been sawn in her box.

leinster_fan

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

Ze number vun psychic in ze world Flathan of course!

Anyvun who disagrees vill have to renowate zeir flat for ze next year.

Anyvun who disagrees will have their moneybag stolen....in my opinion!

kfallon

This guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avgGMJPEeuk

Eve_Dublin

The gay fella on RTE with the glasses back in the day...

leinster_fan

Eve_Dublin wrote: »

The gay fella on RTE with the glasses back in the day...

Derek Mooney??

tdv123

Used to be one on Sky 1 a few years back, forget what it was called but the guy doing it wore a black mask over his head & wore all black clothes. That was good one.

Samich

tdv123 wrote: »

Used to be one on Sky 1 a few years back, forget what it was called but the guy doing it wore a black mask over his head & wore all black clothes. That was good one.

Was thinking of him, he revealed himself then What a letdown :P

nice_very

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

Read his books, you'll end up confused as to whether or not anything he says is true, including the stuff in the books.

books??? if they make fillums of them I will watch them...









now... sleep, right the way down...:cool:

admiralofthefleet

Eve_Dublin wrote: »

The gay fella on RTE with the glasses back in the day...

fergus gibson? that puddle jumper is from around the corner from me in raheny, yet i never saw him once in order to kick him in the gee

Lyaiera

I think it's very unfair and a probably a troll that you put psychics in the same category as magicians and illusionists. Magicians and illusionists are only doing tricks and playing with people. Psychics are charlatans and are actively evil.

Samich

Lyaiera wrote: »

I think it's very unfair and a probably a troll that you put psychics in the same category as magicians and illusionists. Magicians and illusionists are only doing tricks and playing with people. Psychics are charlatans and are actively evil.

Well Derren Brown is down as a psychic isn't he?

DEFTLEFTHAND

James Randi. A brilliant stage magician and scientific researcher who has been running the JREF Paranormal Challenge since the 1960s. At present the prize fund stands at over $1,000,000 of Randi's own money which he'll pay to any individual who can prove in front of him and a review panel to have psychic 'ability', 'powers'. Keith Barry cites him as being one of his career influences.

He's probably most famous for his long standing feud with Uri Geller who he has publicly exposed as a fraud on numerous occasions. Randi learnt and perfected Geller's methods of trickery and recreated the illusions in front of live audiences whilst explaining the technique. Geller has attempted to sue Randi in the past to no avail.

whatsername42

Derren Brown is unbelievable...went to see a live show of his once. I left believing that he has to be an alien living among us with supernatural powers!! :eek:

Rabidlamb

Samich wrote: »

Well Derren Brown is down as a psychic isn't he?

Nope, he discredits the whole area of psychics, did a program on it exposing some Liverpool fella, very funny.

Derren Brown is also a very accomplished painter.
Check out his work
http://derrenbrown.co.uk/artwork/

https://www.google.ie/search?q=derren+brown+art&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=lax&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvnso&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=UqUPUPieJYiwhAfkkIDIAQ&ved=0CDwQ_AUoAQ&biw=825&bih=387

Oranage2

Love derren brown too some amazing tricks though i wonder how 'real' it all is.



On a side not isn't kawaga Japanese - why do you have the Chinese flag?

GavRedKing

Dynamo, been watching his stuff on Youtube before the Magician Impossible series.

Some of his tricks and illusions are excellent.

seamus

Derren Brown is probably a polymath - someone who excels in several different (and often unrelated) disciplines to genius level.

The kind of person who wins a gold medal at the Olympics and then later invents a cure for cancer. One of those bastards.

Himself or Penn & Teller would probably be the ones I'd pay the most to see. Because they don't pretend that it's magic or mystical, like Blane does. They say straight up that it's just trickery.

Dravokivich

Paul Daniels.

Had his magic sets and all as a wee lad so I did.

Dave!

Going to see Keith Barry against my will on Friday. Is he any use?

Suppose my favourite/s would be Penn & Teller. This is just boss:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXGr76CfoCs

TPD

Penn and Teller would be my favourites. Lost interest in Derren Brown after that lottery prediction trick - camera tricks just seemed a bit weak for him.

Ms.M

I went to see that Irish dude with the Asylum show; can only talk for myself but it depended for me on sheer goodwill. There I was fake orgasming in front of hundreds of on-lookers thinking "wtf am I doing?" If you're told you're going to do something, and you're given no time to think, and you've loads of people looking at you wanting to be entertained....
I actually felt quite grossed out for a good while after. And disappointed in myself that I didn't say "eh, No buddy". But imagine how bad I would have felt just sitting back down... awkward...

Samich

Oranage2 wrote: »

Love derren brown too some amazing tricks though i wonder how 'real' it all is.



On a side not isn't kawaga Japanese - why do you have the Chinese flag?

It's a joke! :pac:

Samich

Anyone been ever at a Derren Brown show and he's known what the person was thinking of? How does he do it?