Anyone else interested in magic? There used to be so many good magicians on TV.
Many of the modern, so called street magicians, use stooges & camera trickery to achieve their effects.So are anything but magicians.
It was people like the British magician David Nixon & American Doug Henning who got me interested in the art.
Yessssss. There are some amazing magicians these days. They can do stuff that’s completely mind blowing.
There are some Pixel messers nowadays.
Ah - not quite what I was expecting.
I remember David Nixon - he was good, not heard of Doug Henning, and please don’t even mention Paul Daniels!
Tommy Cooper was the best imo
I had a boyfriend many many years ago who was a magician and fire-eater. I once assisted him on stage - my knees were shaking I was so nervous and I did nothing apart from waving my arms around and smiling . 
The annoying thing was he never let me in on any of the secrets of how tricks were done.
I was watching something years later on ITV and he turned up as the ‘man-in-charge’ of things (for the life of me I can’t remember what he was actually introduced as, but it wasn’t ‘the man-in-charge’). He was high up in the Magic Circle or whatever it is.
I won’t give you his name, but over the years he turned out to be a right barsteward and (pardon me) pissed with power. So much so, he’s ridiculed all over various websites.
BTW, when he was starting out, his other job was selling toupees. 
Sounds hair-raising.
ate too much fire and burnt his hair?
Dynamo was very Dynamic at one time. 
Many a moon ago there was a children’s show with a character named Ali bongo or similar any one recall him.
Yep, he had a strange dress sense, looked a bit like Michael Howard.
Dynorod magician inept, is one of the worst for using stooges etc & if you want to try any of the tricks he does his whole act can be purchased off ebay for £15, no skills required, as almost all are simple to do.
Haha. 
Snort.
Priceless! 
Yes he was a very accomplished magician. And besides his own magic act he was magic consultant for shows such as David Nixon & Paul Daniels shows. He presented a childrens cartoon series, appeared in Doctor who & inspired David Renwick to create Jonathon Creek.
He is now sadly broken wand (dead.) But was a great magician.
That character was one he created whilst still at school for one of their pantomimes.
The most popular magicians I can think of were David Copperfield
America’s Got Talent has had some good contenders
David Blaine and David Copperfield…the great magicians…
Both sadly went broken wand recently. Roy Horn in 2020 & Siegfried Fischbacher in January of this year.
And yes, Penn & Teller are amazing, if you want to watch them at thier very best then look on Google for their Cup & Balls act. Cup & balls is the oldest magic trick in the world, it even seems to feature in Egyptian hieroglyphics. P & T perform this to perfection. Magic is in our minds as viewers, not in the psychology & slight of hand, but in the performance. And P & T are master performers.
And strangely you choose a picture of Shim Lin, not just a winner, but a great magician. A great performer, a great innovator & an amazing manipulator of cards. His level of skill does not come easily. It requires many hours of practice & study.
That’s actually an entire video which features great magicians they’ve had on the show. It’s really quite good and is approximately 45 minutes long. A must see.
