Matt Marcy on "Penn & Teller: Fool Us"

let's meet our first potential foler i'm matt marcy and i'm a comedy magician I always wanted my magic to be more than just the series of tricks and so I created a stage play opening night I worked out in the audience and tell her listen even I never met him before and after the show I chatted with him for quite a while and he gave me great thoughts and advice I wanted to go step further and so I created the web series about a magician I'm a magician oh okay what instrument the purpose of the web series was to explore magicians as human beings magicians will be looking for success that's how they'll be looking for love okay magic boy and they'll see that through the lens of magic a magician is first a person and he wants all the things that every person would walk [Applause] funny and fuller please welcome Matt mercy [Applause] thank you very much you know I'm normally a comedy magician but because this is fullest tonight I wanted to do something a little different a giant over-the-top Las Vegas style grand illusion what do you think I've actually brought four with me I only have time for one but I'm gonna let you choose the one I do and to make that choice fair I made this simple poster it says the trick that will fool Penn & Teller will be a B C or D pan you get the choice Oh si si very good choice very confident let's see what you didn't pick you could have picked a and tonight I'd be performing for you the appearing Empire State Building Oh the Empire State buildings and ashes from New York appears right on this stage three would be that was one of my favorites that's the levitating shark off the 2,000 pound great white floats around each three people it's spectacular indeed I was hoping for Dee Dee was the the deadly double bullet catch Oh nobody figures that act are you pixie and that is why I was hoping you would pick it is my favorite one under the most spectacular illusion I know get ready because tonight I'll be performing for you a trick excellent choice penny love card tricks I've run a deck of cards jumbo decks week and I'll see you and I should be honest I love card tricks but card tricks used to be simple right you pick a card the magician would find it very easy lately I have seen these complex card tricks I can't follow so tonight I will do the opposite of that and I won't go create for you the world's simplest card trick and I simplify it the way anybody would with a clear and concise PowerPoint presentation so here it is ladies and gentlemen the world's simplest card trick oh she begin by explaining the OHS magic trace cartridge to make up 62 percent it's actually it's actually a bit odd you can see from this graph as a number of contracts go up the quality of the magician goes down however according to this graph as the number of graphs go up the quality of magician goes up so I'm in good shape there's a few more drafts of that statistic in case you miss it there it is in 3d no districts 99% are bad card tricks really only like 1% of card tricks are any good but this trick falls right about there right there yes 79% of the picot card of the P AC card tricks 18% of the no card selected the NCS tricks and only 3% of the most difficult kind the sync of a cartridge that's what we'll do tonight somebody here will tio AC and would you mind helping sure in a moment I will ask it at equal AC very good they would appear to Allison has a free choice of 52 different cards actually then son as we found the women tend to choose red cards men tendencies black cards kids of course to the Joker please don't choose the Joker no joke Ross two very popular cards that don't influence you they can be chosen if you would like the Queen of Hearts and the ace of spades but there are very common choices I love women choose the Queen of Hearts because it represents love and beauty and of course decapitation remember then we have the ace of spades for the guys because it represents strength it's known as the bullet card which is weird because the Spade is a shuffle it should be known as the gardening card but it's not its own is the bullet card not to be confused with a bullet point that looks like this so since the first time would you please tLAC think of a card nine of yeah sorry so forget the 9 think of a card got one now idea very good now change your mind cym to any other car at AOC okay we got a new one yeah good Ellison in your mind I way I'm trying to card facedown FD visualize the back of the car the Bo TC he's the rider back car is it made by the United States playing card company of course they were founded in Cincinnati Ohio the other buildings that picture of Cincinnati courtesy Google Maps let's review so far as Houston atio AC then she CY am to a or C I want to join the crowd ft and did you like the B OTC made by the USBC C from Cincinnati Oh H ok for the first time name the card yes against 8 of clubs 8 of clubs and that's your car than with my way Maternity mmm sure excellent Ellen welcome in the second car is there are 52 cards they're all facing in one direction however I am in your mind you turn a single card FD facedown so one card somewhere in there should be reversed from all the rest and that can be tough to spot if anyone sees that let me know I see it one card is turned over in the deck that is the eight of clubs would that be a good trick yeah you're freaking miracle Allison due to free choice of 52 cards you randomly picked the 8 of clubs and I told you this isn't just any car truck this is the world's simplest card trick kitchen everyone loves it everywhere we've all suffered through PowerPoint doesn't just have to be corporate stuff everyone has been through these slideshows yeah the best PowerPoint ever so entertaining thank you yeah it was a card trick so so how did you come up with this idea well I'd like to wrap my magic in my presentations that people can relate to and connect with and I always thought PowerPoint was one of those things so it made sense for me to do that and all of my stuff is comedy magic but it's all tied in with story so stories about my life stories about people I know stories about things I've experienced I actually developed a stage show and a webseries about a magician that's all story based and makes his magic and storytelling that's always been sort of what I'm most interested in it's cool all right figured it out or not Oh Matt you know teller saw your show in LA of a one-man show in LA and Teller saw it as soon as he saw you come out he was thrilled oh he was already over the moon and I I haven't seen you before and it's just killer just so great I mean I I could not be more sick of TED talks I believe that oration in the United States of America has been destroyed by PowerPoint uh-huh I think they're the worst things in the world and the moment when you brought up the Google map of Cincinnati one of the one of great really funny things and the basic rule with comedy magicians is they're never that funny and the magics never that good and you you just proved both of those who's funny all the way through and you also you also proved something that that we like to say all the time which it really is the singer not the song you did just just a beautiful job and just tight and crisp and funny and brilliant and wonderful and now it's time to ID this with the UMD it's a variation of an ID it's a UMD I think they're onto the sorcery [Applause]

Channel: Matt Marcy

Views: 700,908

Rating: 4.8331132 out of 5

Keywords: magic, magician, card trick, corporate entertainment, corporate entertainer, penn & teller, comedy magic, Fool Us

Id: FIsdMg8TkNU

Length: 8min 44sec (524 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 26 2018