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Most of the TV stuff is not the same thing though. I know people who have had paid work as 'audience' for those. You put a trained actor in normal clothes and p
by lotsofmangos 12y ago
Most of the TV stuff is not the same thing though. I know people who have had paid work as 'audience' for those. You put a trained actor in normal clothes and people watching on TV will swear blind that they could not have faked their reaction.
- thret 12y agoJust assume that everyone 'from the audience' who participates in any kind of magic is a shill. No matter if it is on TV, at a party, in a restaurant, or in the street.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoNot always. I got invited from the audience when I was a kid for a stage magic show. The guy was doing a trick where he wrote on a ping pong ball, gave it to me to look at, destroyed it and then made it reappear. While I was looking at it I marked it with my thumbnail. When it reappeared he asked me to verify that it was the same, but it didn't have the nail-mark on it, so I told him that it definitely wasn't, and how I knew. I was 12 and my parents were furious with me about it. For some reason they never ever took me to a magic show again.
- thret 12y agoFurious? They should have been proud! I want to believe that a better magician would have noticed and reproduced the mark.
- lotsofmangos 12y ago"Furious? They should have been proud!" Heh, I could probably talk to a shrink for several days solid about that. In their view at the time I ruined it for everyone and wasted the money of the entire audience and possibly ruined the career of the poor magician too and if I had any kind of feeling for others I would have played along and just lied. It was socially unacceptable behaviour, apparently. I found the whole thing completely bewildering.