Wall of Mouths

I’ve missed the entirety of this series, but I’ve seen his stuff before, and it’s really good. Nearly got to see him live a year or so ago, but the tickets had sold out.

Hey Seb - if you have bit torrent you can download all the new episodes off http://www.uknova.com - they are about 200mb each

I always forget to watch stuff on tv so I just download the programs I wanna see and watch em when i want to see them.

Fridays was really fucking weird, they got this guy playing an arcade game in a pub (a bit like house of the dead) - he then hypnotised him by making the screen flash, They put him on a stretcher & took him into this building next door which was set out exactly the same layout as the game, filled it with people dressed as zombies, gave this poor sod a gun and woke him up! the guy nearly shit himself…

HAHA, excellent! I saw the one where he got in a london taxi and asked to go to the London Eye, and then made the driver forget where it was. It’s just in plain view, and this cabby’s scratching his head, and going ‘it’s around here somewhere, I know it.’ :D

Also I loved the one at the dog track. Taking in losing tickets and collecting winnings as if they had won. The cool thing with that was that you could watch and SORT OF see how he might be doing it, but it still not really being… possible. :D

Seb, I’m betting that’s a night that - no matter what - you wouldn’t remember. ;)

I saw a clip of that wallet one. Doesn’t he sort of build up to it? Like: ‘You don’t mind telling me how to get to___ do you?’ ‘You don’t mind if I ask you___’ ‘You don’t mind if I take your wallet, do you?’

Also great to see was when he just blatantly picked this guy’s pockets over and over again and kept giving the stuff back, all the while talking about something else entirely. You could see it from a long shot, as he took the guy’s wallet, held it behind his back and loosened the guy’s watch strap with the otehr hand, handing back the wallet saying ‘oh, i think this is yours, isn’t it?’ then nicking his watch, then loosening his tie(!) a little, handing him back his watch while taking his wallet again, loosening his tie a bit more, handing back the wallet, then taking the tie, and the watch, phone, keys, whatever and it just kept going on. So impressive.

deadsetgav wrote:

The guy is clearly very fucking clever, i bet you dont see him sat in a box hanging from a crane any time soon…

He’d just persuade someone else to do it. ;)

Is there any point me asking how he might have done a trick that I didn’t see?

HE does it all through the way he says things, you can spot it if you pay attention really closly. For example, he asked a woman to draw something on a board, saying ‘Let an image SAIL through your mind’… she thought of a boat. Most of what he does is a lot more complex, the getting people to give them their wallet is used by handing them something (his bottle of water), and the use of the phrase ‘you’re happy to give that to me’, and applying pressure on particular points on the person’s arm… its very tricky, but a very clever and fun.

A lot of it is intimidating people and putting them on the defensive by being very aggressive and invading the personal space, touching them and getting in their faces. As well as that he shocks people by sticking a whole camera crew in their faces and as this shock hits the person he moves in and screws with their subconcious.

:) When he did his tour, the flyers had a quote from someone saying something to the efect that he was the closest thing our world had to a Jedi Master.

Bad Karma wrote:

I don’t know how he does it.I read somewhere Derren is banned from casinos.

He mentioned that in teh first series, I think. He was in a casino, playing cards, and he can basically just memorise the location of all the cards after a while, so he has a really good cahnce of knowing what hand is being dealt.. It’s bizarre to see. He was getting the croupier to pick a number of cards, and he’d just pick up exactly that number of cards from a deck on the table in one movemnet. (‘pick a number’ ‘27’ He cuts the deck, and thre’s exactly 27 cards in the second pile.)
best bit though was at the end of teh episode (much of it being set in a casino), and he puts all his winnings from teh rest of teh tricks on a number of the roulette wheel, and said something about being able to influence the ball. (like, black 21, or whatever). he puts it all on, the wheel spins, and keeps going round over teh credits, and just as the credits stop you see it’s on 20, and you hear him go “OH BOLLO-” and the show ends. :D Then afterwards you think, ‘hang on, it was on the number right next to it?!? Was that a set up? or…?’ ;)

you don’t likt it? :p

Okay, okay, I’m crap. :mad: :(

for some reason, on this keyboard, I often screw up the order of h and e. I don’t know why.

I guess i’m just crap and should go and quietly die somewhere.

*cautious* Possibly…

:)

‘Here lies d’ makes it sound like i’m untrustworthy. I never lie. It should be:
‘Honestly: here’s d!’

How about
The Tomb of of the Unknown Alphabet?

All the more distressing, since I’m a proofreader… ;)

At least you’ll always be able to find employment - by yourself.

If you’re a harsh boss then simply take the piss by inserting misspellings in your work (“teh” instead of “the”, perhaps?)