- [Dean] Illusion, the
distorting the senses,
You can't trust what you
Meet the Masters of Illusion.
(audience cheering)
Hi I'm Dean Cain and welcome
Now, if you had to differentiate
between reality and illusion,
you'd think it'd be
Not so sure? (chuckles)
And we'll all see
- Dean, Dean, sorry.
Can I get your
- Yes Naathan.
I've got this thing with
and with a 1 and a 20.
Can you take the one for me?
- Yeah, yeah.
Here, can you fold
And then fold it in
Fantastic. Good.
And then if I were to ask
Can you hold up
Hold on. Just grab
Turn your hand over.
So now here's the question.
If I grab, let's say,
and if I were to back up
The question is, is this slow
that now I have the 20 and
you've got the one.
Is that slow enough?
- That was amazing.
- No, but I have a whole
If you could do that?
I can take those.
(both laugh)
- All right.
- Yeah.
Naathan Phan, there
(audience applauds)
And I made some
This bit of magic
as a whole lotta fun.
As is the magician himself.
Here's Bill Cook.
(audience cheering)
- Thank you so much.
I have a wonderful
This is Kathy.
Thank you Kathy for coming.
Have you ever been to Chicago?
- No.
- I am from Chicago.
And I want to share a story
Chicago is the birthplace
of what is known
Anything small with like a
And the godfather
was a man named Matt Schulien.
He owned a bar on the
called Schulien's.
(audience laughs)
He was not only a good magician,
but he was a better businessman.
What he would do is he would
and see who had just a
in their drink, and he'd
"Can I show you something?"
And they'd say.
- Yeah.
He'd ask you to
- Okay.
- Done. Perfect.
And then he'd say, "I'll
of cards like this. I want
Whenever you feel like it."
- Stop.
He would then show you
The ace of clubs.
That would go back
Rest of the cards
He would take your glass,
and then say, "Watch."
(eerie electronic music)
Suddenly a corner of
inside of the glass.
Now that was pretty cool.
He would then take the
and, what's called, spring
And one card would kind of
being your ace of clubs.
(audience applauds)
Not only that he would
to show that it is
and it perfectly
that is inside of the glass.
- Oh my God.
he was a good magician,
because as a person
this glass is now dirty and
(Kathy laughs)
And for that to
Thank you for helping me.
- Thank you.
(upbeat electronic music)
- Next up, this
what he wanted to be a
So he chose both.
Here's Chris Funk.
(audience cheering
- Thank you. Thank you so much.
We have the wonderful Suze
(audience applauds)
I want you to think of a
We're gonna go to this
I keep a list of random objects.
I don't know why I just
to keep lists of random objects.
So, if I were to
between 1 and 100,
- 25.
So what we're gonna do is
to my little notes
You can see right
I've got a list of
As I scroll through it,
you can see that we've
I've got MP3 players,
just things that I
I want to do a trick with.
But if we go down to number 25,
what is number 25 say?
- Violin.
- Are you serious?
(audience laughs)
Oh my gosh.
Okay, normally the random
are a little bit smaller
- Should I pick another number?
- No, that's good.
I just gotta think
on my feet right now.
I thank you for being very
Let's see if we can do this.
Here I've got some
I've got here a big,
that we're gonna
I also have, like I said, three.
So the other one I have
and I've also got
You could have picked any
You picked 25.
What did 25 end up on?
- Violin.
Wasn't expecting that,
but using a little
You can actually see that,
we have a violin.
You didn't see
No I did.
Telepathetic, I mean
(audience applauds)
- Here now to turn up the heat
all the way from Vietnam.
It's Mai Wynn.
(audience cheers and applauds)
(dramatic orchestral music)
(flame roars)
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(audience cheers and applauds)
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(audience applauds)
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(audience cheers and applauds)
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(audience applauds)
- [Dean] Up next, watch
of Ed Alonzo when we return.
And now for the very quiet,
Oh, wait, I am completely
It's the exact opposite.
It's Ed Alonzo.
(whimsical music)
- When I was a teenager,
at a fish market.
And one day the owner,
this banner in the front window.
Well, as I was walking up
I looked at the
"Fresh fish sold here today."
Well, this banner
(audience laughs)
Take the word
Everyone knows that
They're standing right
They're not gonna come back
That word is useless.
Well I think everyone
You can see fish
and, well, you can
So that just doesn't make
any sense at all.
Ah, the word "sold."
Well, the owner's not
Of course we're selling them.
And
"fish."
I think we know
It's not a hardware store.
"Fresh."
Well, of course,
Well, just then the owner
"Put that banner up in
or you're fired."
I said, "Oh boy, you
He said, "Yes. Get
So, I snap my fingers
and I open the banner up.
And that banner
said that there was fresh fish
sold here today.
(audience cheers and applauds)
Just perfect, eh?
Ah!
Magic!
(audience cheers and applauds)
Doesn't get any fresher
Ooh! Ooh!
Ooh, that's a big one.
Make room guys here comes Bruce.
(laughs) Okay.
(whimsical music ends)
And now we have sushi on
(audience applauds)
- Have you ever had the
are a little bit sneaky?
Well, I'd say there's
that's exactly what you'll
Here's Farrell Dillon.
- Hi, my name's Farrell Dillon
and I am here with
Your name is?
- Keegan.
During the last
I've been practicing
All right, and it's a very
But I wanted to try some
Do you have a wallet
- No.
Well then it's gonna be
(audience laughs)
It's actually kind
your personal items, okay.
So here's what's gonna happen.
I'm gonna give you
I'm gonna have you hide
And then I'm going to try and
without you feeling it.
Now, have you ever seen a
- No.
so what they do is they
so that you aren't
and then they kind of
and then they reach
They steal out your valuables
and that's how they
So look, I'm gonna try
So imagine that we're
or something like
And we're looking around
There's something
Oh, okay. Did you see that?
Okay."
And then look, I reach
and I get the wallet out.
Did you feel it?
- Yes.
- You did?
- All right, well, look, I'm
I've just been practicing.
Plus if I was a good pickpocket,
I'd actually be able to
Take out the wallet,
Then I could put the wallet back
where it was at the beginning.
Reach inside your back pocket.
Is that the wallet?
- Yeah.
Thank you so much
Please give him a big
Watch your step and
(audience cheers and applauds)
- [Dean] Next, mind reading
of Magical Katrina.
Many choices in life
You're about to meet
that notion into one
Here she is.
Also known as Magical Katrina.
(audience cheers and applauds)
- It is such an honor to be
I didn't just come here to do
I came here because I need help.
The last few years my dating
Yeah, I should probably
(audience laughs)
But I wanted to see if
Yeah? Do you wanna help
- I absolutely.
Now what is your name?
- My name is Kevin.
- Kevin! Lovely to
- Nice to meet you.
- Okay, matchmaker Kevin.
So I have here a bunch
of different gentlemen that
And I was wondering if you
and tell me if you think
We're gonna put them
Can you do that?
- Okay, perfect.
Should I date this guy?
- Yeah.
We'll put him next to you.
'Cause he's a yes.
What about this guy?
He has a beard.
- He has a beard.
- He's a bit like you.
- Yeah, let's do him too.
Okay, what about this guy?
- Job security, good.
But maybe a no.
- Yeah, he might be
Okay. What about this
Any man that brings caffeine
- No.
- No? Okay, okay, no.
What about him?
- Anybody with a cat is a yes.
- Yes, yeah. Then
I can choose him or the cat.
- Yeah.
(audience laughs)
(gasps) What about this guy?
- I think you said you're
- Oh! Oh my gosh.
Dodged that bullet. Thank you.
What about her? She
like she's had a rough day.
- She's had a rough day,
This is totally yes.
What about this guy?
He has a tiny hat.
- Oh he's a yes.
- Okay. Yes. Yeah. Okay.
So these are the yeses
So we have here
kitty, kitty guy, nice,
beard guy,
and clean cut guy.
So that's still too many
Yeah, I mean it's
It's one, two,
Could you just narrow
to be my perfect match?
(pumping music intensifying)
- It's a tough choice.
I mean, she feels like
She needs a win.
- She might need a win.
Okay, great.
So you like the pretty lady?
- Yeah.
just so that she doesn't leave
Because I actually have
Before I came here,
I kind of already knew which
In fact, I took a Sharpie
and I drew big,
black X's
on every single
all of them,
except for the one I
The very same one you chose.
I drew a big, green
Could you pick that up
the big green check mark?
(audience cheers and applauds)
Thank you so much.
Round of applause
(audience applauds)
- [Dean] Up next, "amazing"
Glenn Strange.
What you're about to
Well, the magician is,
for real.
Here he is folks.
Glenn Strange.
(audience cheers and applauds)
- Hello. Thank you, thank you.
Now, what you've been
I know.
But it's not really
It's a trick that uses cards.
For this I need someone
Someone that's probably
This lady, you'll do perfect.
Just come around over here.
You don't even
(audience applauds)
- Alma.
- Alma, Alma. That's
That's my mama's
Alma, I'm gonna go
and whenever you feel the
I want you to say stop.
Are you ready?
- Here we go.
- Stop.
- Okay, that's the card you
- Yes.
- Now, if you can't see
'Cause sometimes I miss I'm
I'm losing it down in the deck.
(audience laughs)
I'm gonna attempt
Uh, I'm not getting a signal.
It's not your problem, it's me.
I got a little
Now this is a little black bag
and down in this
I got a little piece of rope.
Now, if you like to play cards
and you're embarrassed
take your little black bag
and shuffle up the cards.
This is a good way
(audience laughs)
Nobody will ask any questions.
I'm gonna take this rope,
and lasso your card
Yes I am.
Are you ready?
Yeehaw!
I go down in the bag.
Around and around.
I got it, I got it, I got it.
I got the card you stopped
(audience cheers)
The card,
the ace of clubs.
(audience laughs)
Oh man, I didn't wanna do this.
Looks like I'm gonna have to
Now, if you've been to Las
There's a magician out there.
He's got his own theater. He
He has a card selected by a
He shuffles...
I picked you.
(audience laughs)
back into the deck.
He throws all the
He whips out a great,
I have no idea
He'll stick it
and he'll stick that
And we'll take
and suck your card
Made even harder by
(audience laughs)
(lively music intensifies)
Three of clubs!
Is that it? You see it?
(audience cheers and applauds)
I had a five, I had
I flipped that off
Thank you so much,
- Well this has been amazing.
I wish we had more
But you'll have to
Till then, I'm Dean Cain.
Have a great night.
(audience cheers and applauds)
(upbeat electronic music)