4 Pieces of Comedy Magic Gold Hidden on YouTube

4 Pieces of Comedy Magic Gold Hidden on YouTube

by Hayden Childress

Recently I had the honor of staying in Atlanta with my good friend Kyle Jarrard for a couple days. We were planning on going with a group of magicians to see a magic show in downtown Atlanta, but sadly the show was cancelled because the magicians and the place they were performing at seemed to have communication issues because when the said magicians we were going to watch arrived to perform at the place they discovered it had actually closed down. Wow, what a waste of 3.5 hours of driving and premium gasoline that my VW GTI uses. Kyle and I felt lazy the next day and decided to get on my computer and watch magic videos. They started off great, and slowly, slowly, and surely turned into the cheesiest, crappiest, but most hilarious pieces of YouTube magic we have ever seen. Ladies and Gentlemen, these are the four funniest pieces of YouTube magicians we found.

#4 The Amazing Silks to Popcorn...Performed by the Gangsta White Boy

The crystal silk cyclinder is a really cool piece of magic that can allow you to transform, vanish, and change a huge array of objects cleanly, and visibly from far away. It is a great piece of magic that you can watch in any magic shop, and even after you know how it is done, still be amazed. Going on YouTube, you can find an array of videos of magicians performing it. Here is a video of a kid doing it for his video camera in his kitchen/theater.

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Absolutely nothing wrong with what he did or how he did it. Although wearing a shirt that says another magician's name might not get him hired to do that trick somewhere. This video is pretty okay to watch, but once you add in the music.... prepare yourself.

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Good God why is this video so hilarious. First off this is a trick where a silk turns into popcorn... not where a bullet shell casing turns into a bunch of $20 bills (Although that would be pretty sweet). So why does this kid start of his music with the lyrics "Oh shit, get your towels ready

It's about to go down" 
You then see an awkward middle class white kid appear from the back of his kitchen showing you a tube empty with no pizzaz whatsoever that he is about to do something super cool.

"Just try and figure this **** out"

He then stuffs that scarf into that crystal cyclinder like he just does not give a crap.

"Pretty soon this is gonna be some popcorn we can eat together at my mom's place ;)"

Then after a douchey gesture of showing the scarf in the tube

"Just try and stuff scarves as good as i do"

The music builds up even louder to show a tube filled with popcorn! And just in case if you weren't sure that there was popcorn in the tube...

I still do not know why I find this video so funny, but I think it has something to do with how non-chaulant this kid is doing magic, the fact that he is in his mom's kitchen, and all of that combined with the music blaring "Motha fucka" and "I'm on a boat!" while a middle class white kid performs for a camera on his kitchen counter just makes this into the list of my YouTube magic gold.

"Oh thank God! For a second I thought he owned the rights to the song. And it's a good thing he told us the name because it's not like the video says it 400x per minute"

And in case you were wondering, this is actually his original version. The first video above was the "edited" version that plays smooth alternative rock in the background. My guess is that grandma watched the video and thought this kid was a part of the magic Crips.

#3 Worlds Worst Metamorphosis

Ah Metamorphosis. One of the most fascinating illusions in the world to watch. The premise is simple: a magician is locked inside of a box, the assistant stands on top, and they switch places in a split second! Not only is this one of the most amazing illusions, but it is also one of the most performed (if not the most) illusions in the world. Just go on youtube and look up "Metamorphosis trick" and see for yourself.

Here is a video of me doing it a few years ago that I still have up on my YouTube page

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You can understand the idea pretty well. However, YouTube is filled with people who perform this illusion slower than AOL on dialup. One video that really sparked my eye was this one performed back in either the late eighties or early nineties (I can hope).

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There is so much wrong from this video that it would require a second blog for me to analyze the entire thing, so I will just give a summary.
First off, you can tell this was performed in the 90's because of that same song that literally every single magician used since Beverly Hills Cop came out.
Although, I think more importantly what everyone is thinking was WHY IN GOD'S NAME IS THERE A 45 YEAR OLD WOMAN WEARING THAT ON STAGE?!

SHIELD YOUR EYES

Aside from this woman being far too innapropriately dressed, this magic duo seems to have nailed the appearance of a cliche magic act from the beginning. Let's see if we can find a pattern to literally every other illusionist from the 90s...

1. Douchey Dancing

2. Glitter, sparkles, and shiny stuff every 2 seconds

3. Beverly Hills Cop Theme song... Check

4. Exxagerated movements all over the place that looks more like a fashion show than someone showing a box is normal

5. Overly inflated ego and value of one's worth... CHECK

Overall even before the magic actually happens this show is hilariously disastrous. What comes next is just gravy on the mashed potatoes..

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The part of the trick where the magician is locked inside of the crate while handcuffed etc. seems to have been cut out of the video. My only guess is that there was not enough space on YouTube to upload the dance he must have done getting locked into the box.

We jump right to the part that is actually magic, the amazing microsecond transposition between the assistant and the magician! Instead of getting a shot of the beautiful assistant standing on top of a locked crate with a small curtain, we get this

The only thing that could possibly make this trick even worse might be for a mysterious third hand to appear and close the gap above the woman's head but that would be, WAIT! Nope totally did it

Finally what was supposed to become a magical and impressive feat of magic where you blink and the assistant has switched actually turns out to be a woman going behind a curtain, and a man whose weight and ego are battling to be huger suddenly appears at the front

"Surprise! Didn't see that one coming"

The video of course ends with even more superfluous dancing and even more douchey magician head nods and poses.

I think overall what makes this video so great isn't just how bad the actual magic was, but how stereotypical this guy was as an illusionist. This is what happens when you treat a magic show more like a fashion show - you practice the dancing and coordination, you pick catchy music that you saw another magician use, but you couldn't care less how well the magic looked for the audience. And that, my friends, is how this awesome photo magically appeared in the video at 2:13 in.

Seriously look 2:13 in this appears for some reason

#2 Flirting With Magic with Michael Jeffries

Magic can be a useful tool when trying to talk to new people, especially the ladies. I usually tell people that my best pickup line is pick a card. However, I only wish I purchased this VHS series back in the 90s to help me even more. Please prepare yourselves for Flirting With Magic.

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Right off the bat you know that this video is going to help you pick up lots and lots of attractive women, I mean, just look at how nice this guy's house is and all of those attractive women in the pool with him!

"This watch is a rental...must...not...get...wet"

Possibly one of my favorite line's from this video would have to be...

"What else can you make disappear?!"

Look at that grin!

You can tell just how extemporaneously this video was made from a few scenes. Go to about 7:20 into the video and you hear this conversation actually happen.

Magician: "How about you meet me back here around 11 for a drink or so"

Girl: "Oh no no, how do I know you're not some sort of a weirdo?"

Magician: "Oh.... I'm not a weirdo...." (looks off in the distance)

You can see the shear look of horror in that woman's face as he looks away! I think the thick framed serial killer glasses might have ruined it for him. What makes this video even worse is that, despite his creepiness, she still says "well....alright!" Right after. We can only imagine that there isn't a halloween party coming up on that cruise ship, because I have a feeling that guy might be wearing her skin as a costume.

"What's handy about these tricks is that if you perform them as Michael Jeffreys demonstrates, they legally count as informing a stranger of your status as a sex offender. You can tell from his innuendoes that the closest he's ever come to getting sex with magic is hearing someone's mom flush a toilet at a birthday party. Here are some of my favorites: 

credit cracked.com

This magician is so bad I'd imagine he's just trying to get free pepper spray out of these women. But alas, this nearly made it into the #1 spot on this post until I came across the next YouTube Channel...

#1 The Appearing Goldfish from Sleight of Hand Expert and Magician Tom Gray

The appearing goldfish has always been an incredible trick in the magic world. The most popular performer for this trick is Mac King. We came across this piece of YouTube gold a few months back and it is still just as hilarious to watch as the first time.

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HOW DID HE DO THAT?!?!?!?!?! Not the trick, I mean how did he make a 20 second trick into a minute and a half video? 

Let's dissect and show my favorite parts of this video. We first see a guy relaxing in a chair suspiciously holding a martini glass filled with water. I only say filled with water because I know that goldfish appear in it in a second, and making fish swim in that would just be cruel. Anyways, he begins talking with

"Enjoying a drink...............after work today......... hmph jgrg ejf. Oh, there is something stuck in my throat, humph hmp"

As he begins coughing, he is covering his mouth. Yet, while he is clearing his throat of whatever is in it. However, despite nothing ever falling out of his mouth into the glass you suddenly see

"Oh my god, what came out..................................?"

I only insert the 20 periods after that phrase above, because there is literally a 24 second pause. Also, look at his face while he shows you the fish in the glass.

His face is just like "Yea...that's right! Those are goldfish! I'd like to see you do that!"

He then actually says "That's right......several goldfish..............." With this face

Not only is the magic bad, but the unnecessary, long, awkward moments of silence in this video just make it that much more funny. However, there is a reason why this video is gold. As you know, this guy is a "master magician and sleight of hand artist" so we decided to see other videos he might have as well. What we pulled up had us dying laughing.

When you click on his YouTube channel here you are not greeted with 4-5 thumbnails of him doing magic, but 101 videos, with about 90% of the thumbnails being big breasted women. Seriously, look!

101 videos, all of him doing magic. Somehow he has enough technical knowledge to get the thumbnail on the video perfect every time with a huge breasted woman on the thumbnail. Not to mention the banner is him posed next to a Ferrari with, you guessed it, a big breasted woman icon in the corner of the banner.

And there you have it. Lesson here is, if your videos aren't getting enough views on YouTube, put erotic photos as your thumbnail with your name labeled everywhere. You won't get much more views, but you will make it onto Hayden's blog as being one of the funniest pieces of magic on YouTube. Yay.

I hope you guys liked this, it took a lot of work to type everything etc. so please let me know what you think!

-Hayden

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