Michael Davis, Juggler on Bob Monkhouse Show

[Music] [Applause] [Music] hello I'm Michael Davis thank you thank you for that wonderful reception fact of all my audience receptions that was the most recent I'd like to explain something before I start my act there's an old saying in show business that a comic says funny things but a comedian says things funny this makes me a juggler I have an unusual philosophy about the art of juggling I don't think it's important how many I found that it's not what you do it's how you do it important thing is to have style now when I was a youth I didn't understand that philosophy that was constantly practicing with two balls in one hand when I was in danger of going blind this is not a difficult trick I can tell from your reaction truly professional juggler could do this and even look away he glanced around the theater you look nice save it I'll try to grab another ball watch as I place the third ball into the pattern [Laughter] [Applause] [Applause] this is the classic right-handed juggling pattern it's very simple if you're left-handed it is exactly the same pattern let's put your left hand over on this side your arms are on backwards all of the kinds of people can learn how to juggle to be the schizophrenic person in masochistic person the Irish juggler [Applause] okay I saw a juggler in San Francisco actually I'm bisexual twice a year I buy sex I want to tease you by taking out the two extra balls showing them and not using them here we go five balls up in the air at one time actually more than five [Music] [Laughter] the eyeballs makes a total of eight [Laughter] but why bore you with my problems [Laughter] [Applause] five ball juggling hopefully followed by five ball catching that's the hard part catching the last one is the most difficult of all already hampered as I will be by the other four I proposed to catch that last ball using the back of my neck the neck catch extremely dangerous and extremely dangerous and extremely dangerous I could hurt myself simply for your amusement have a good time a trick that requires absolute silence from the audience should be taken seriously [Laughter] I must have been just been doing this for a long time next I think it's about four minutes seems longer [Laughter] your skills are taking you from the circus to the White House you just can't keep away from clowns I wondered whether since you gave your show the inauguration of President Reagan last January if you managed to give the president any of your views your political views you're really only through my act oh yes I use that as a metaphor I could teach him to balance the books hopefully I wanted to give him a message on arms control because who better to talk about arms control than a juggler so I wanted to talk about the sophisticated weaponry that the United States is thinking of developing and I'm really opposed to that actually I think we should get back to basic simple weaponry but what you mean what well I think we should give everybody one of these I'd I'll leave you two to discuss that well you see if you gave every one of everybody one of the everybody one of these they wouldn't feel so helpless in the world but they must be pledged to only use these in self-defense not to be the first one to use their weapon problem is once everybody has one of these they're gonna want one of these obvious superiority this has two heads it's a very old axe who once belonged to George Washington had to replace the handle and the head now when everybody's running around with one of these and one of these that's when I would want one of these this is what you call proliferation but our leaders have assured us that proliferation is not dangerous as long as these weapons are in competent hands we won't endanger future generations so we must always bear in mind how dangerous these weapons are to all forms of life on this planet razorsharp each and every object [Laughter] sorry if I offended anybody with senseless acts of violence now what's the use of having weapons if you can't deploy them so make sure that doesn't fly off again I hate that [Laughter] what I'd like to do is to place the axe on my foot kick the axe high in the air throw the knife throw the cleaver you run like hell that's what I'd like to do did you see stopping is a problem I wish I'd given more thought to that before I started I know what you're thinking if he's really good the net catch [Laughter] see once I have my weapons deployed it's very easy to protect my front and my flank I'll show you a trick I haven't quite perfected juggling with my eyes closed you see actually I can't look away for an instant one slip I could give a whole new meaning to the word disarmament this arm go here this arm go there you know I wish I could get a break for just a minute though I wish I could just get a breather I wish I could just freeze [Applause] but I don't want you to try that at home you'd like to learn to juggle you can learn with simple ordinary objects you may have in your own home you may wonder is it a real bowling ball is it actually affected by gravity or does the earth suck you may wonder is a bowling ball as dangerous as a knife razor sharp even more dangerous because you can't tell where the edges I slit tempt to combine this bowling ball with an egg natural enemy of a bowling ball the third object I have here an apple a bowling ball and Apple in an egg you can see the difficulty in combining these three objects because they're all such different colors the trick being during juggling to take bites out of an apple and not a bowling ball but first Bob I'd like you please to examine the Apple for me look at it quickly yes I'd like you to throw it back I'll tell you when [Laughter] [Applause] [Laughter] maybe you'd like to examine this bowling ball for luckily I have another Apple we'll try it again examine the Apple mmm wait you must throw the Apple at the right time because your throw becomes the first throw of the juggle I have the second thrown go ahead make my day walk the Apple in the air so I can catch it and begin to juggle I'm ready when you are go ahead thank you thank you thank you now watch the app [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

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Length: 14min 34sec (874 seconds)

Published: Mon May 11 2020