Now thats magic!
Now Paul Daniel’s is a bit of legend in this country, not just cause he created one of the best shows ever on TV in Wizbit, not just cause as a man he looks like Frodo’s slightly disabled uncle and still rodded over 500 women (what a swordsman) but because he made magic fun. and he did. One of his favorite stories is that his Paul Daniel’s magic set sold so much that at the time it meant that every kid in the country would have had the equivalent. Now that is magic.
But the future always happens and the future is now cause I’m hoping to get this guy on the Eleventh Commandment - Alex Ward. Now I’m a skeptical as you come, being the jaded result of a generation that thinks they can do/know everything and I always reckon I can work out how magic tricks are done. Apart form the one where David Copperfield flies…. thats real MAGIK. But after interviewing alex on Nuts last week, he did a trick on me that I just cant explain. He managed in about 20 seconds to work out the name that I was thinking of. Wether this was by hypnotizing me (as he did this for about a minute before the show) or used same reading techniques that Derren Brown uses or that it was just real Magic, I couldn’t tell you. All I can say is that it was amazing and if we can get him onto the Eleventh then it’ll make for a fantastic show.
In fact I’m gonna email him now to try and set it up. Or maybe I should just sit here and think about it real hard and see if he can pick it up in the ether…….. yeah I’ll just email him.
