Penn and Teller Fool Us // Shin Lim
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Channel: Shin Lim
Views: 66,268,462
Rating: 4.852972 out of 5
Keywords: Penn & Teller (TV Personality), Season, Rap, Teller (TV Writer), Comedy (Theater Genre), R&b, shin lim, magic, copperfield, david, blaine, tutoria, revealed, ellusionist, carbonaro, dynamo, coin, card, trick, easy, self working, fool us, tv show, uklusion, illusion, Card Trick, David Blaine (Celebrity), Penn & Teller: Fool Us (TV Program), Magic (Literature Subject), Magic Trick, Cards, Criss, Magician, Hiphop, Tutorial, Amazing, Cool, Sister, Magic Tricks, Episode, Bro, Sisters, Brother, agt, americas, got, talent
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Length: 10min 5sec (605 seconds)
Published: Tue Jul 14 2015
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As great as the magic was, I was more astounded to be watching a talent show without constant reactions of the audience/judges. I should probably watch more of this show.
If you pause around 1:57, 3:49, and 5:10, you'll see that his palm is a 3-D printer.
I just realized that watching magic tricks is basically like when you're playing with your dog and you pretend to throw the ball. I am the dog.
Pretty sure this guys a fucking warlock.
Shit got so crazy I was pretty sure the volunteers were gonna start finding Cheez-its in their clothes all of a sudden while screaming "what the ef!"
This is a true story and it happened several years ago, and I think what I am writing doesn't affect my promise not to reveal the trick.
I was in Vegas with my then-wife and we went to a Copperfield show. By holding a beach ball that had been batted around the audience at the moment he yelled "Freeze!" I was selected, along with 11 other people, to be part of a magic act.
The illusion was that he was going to make a dozen of us disappear at once. At the appointed moment, he brought us up on stage. We sat inside a box frame about 15 feet by 6 feet or so. The box had two rows of chairs, one row of six in front of the other, the second row of six on a low riser behind the first so there was a tier. Six in front, six in back, in basic chairs inside this wood frame. The frame was attached to wires at each corner at the top. Copperfield had us hoisted about 10 feet off the ground. Then two assistants draped a curtain over the box, covering the sides. From the audience's perspective, the box was raised about 10 feet, the magic words spoken, the curtain dropped, and the audience saw empty chairs where we had been. Copperfield showed that there was nothing behind or underneath the box. We just...disappeared.
From my perspective as a participant, I was in the box, the curtain was drawn, and I heard Copperfield doing the patter. As we sat there the two assistants in the box with us revealed a set of stairs that were behind the curtain in the back and whispered to us to be quiet and come with them. They had little flashlights.
We followed them down the stairs -- about seven of them -- and then we were in a dark room. One of the assistants went to the far side of the room -- it was about 10 or 15 feet to the door -- and opened the door and told us to wait in the room just beyond. The second room we were led into was about three times the size of a coat closet, had some boxes and stuff in it. So there's us, some storage stuff, and a door behind which we could hear some activity.
One of the participants near me opened the door a little, and we could see that we were now situated at the opposite end of the theater, behind the audience, and outside the theater doors off the lobby. An assistant was standing outside the door and asked us to shut the door, the show was almost over and the audience would be coming out in a few minutes, and they would let us out right before the theater doors were opened. She also told us Mr. Copperfield would greet us before we left, which we were excited by.
The 12 of us, when we realized where we were, all got silent for a moment, and then the guy next to me -- the one who opened the door -- looked around and asked, "Did you feel us move at all? Because we are now about 100 feet from where we were." Someone said, "All I know is we went down a flight of stairs, into a room where it was dark, and then we came in here." None of us could figure out how, after walking down about seven steps and walking 20 or so feet, we could all be here, so far from the stage.
To our delight, about five minutes later Copperfield opened the door to the small room and met us with an assistant. His assistant gave each of us a signed photo of him. Copperfield was a really nice guy. He told us he spent a lot of time on each trick, and he was trusting us, and he asked that we simply not repeat how the trick was done. "You can tell everyone on the internet how the trick was done, and there is nothing I can do to stop you. I can't pay you, and signed pictures are hardly worth much, so I am just asking that you please not tell anyone how I did this trick."
The guy next to me laughed and said what we all thought: "I was in it, and I don't even know how you did this trick."
Copperfield laughed and then another participant -- a woman in her 50s -- asked, "Can I ask you one thing?" Copperfield said, "Sure," and the woman asked, somewhat sheepishly: "Where is the door we came through to get in here?"
We all looked around and it was true: The only door we could see was the one to get out, where Copperfield was standing, not the one we came through.
Copperfield looked at her, smiled slyly, and said, "Have a great night everyone." And then he left. The woman let out a yelp, and we all gasped. There was no second door.
To this day I remain baffled, utterly baffled.
I was watching this episode and this was a guy that Penn and Teller definitely wanted to fool them because he was amazing and he would be great on stage before one of their live shows. The first group to perform on this episode did a hacky trick but they did a few things on stage to make Penn and Teller think they performed the trick a certain way (it is a stock trick that a lot of magicians do and it can be done many ways) so they guessed the obvious way and they were technically wrong so they "fooled" Penn and Teller but definitely were miles behind the stuff this kid is doing.
This was, without a doubt, the greatest card routine I've ever seen. Fucking unbelievable.
I like how the trophy is a big "F U"