The Masked Magician Messes Up a Card Trick on Live TV
If you are like many magicians in the Philippines, you grit your teeth every time the Masked Magician goes on television to expose magic trick after magic trick to lay audiences in the world.
I know a great number of Filipino magicians who wish him ill. I suspect some of them have gone to great lengths of hiring witches to bring him bad luck and misfortune.
Well, the voodoo spell worked. The Masked Magician messed up a card trick and made a fool of himself on live television. As a result, he exposed a trick he didn’t want exposed.
In that TV segment, the Masked Magician is selling an instructional DVD. As part of his marketing campaign, he appears on the program to promote the DVD by performing a card trick taught in the DVD.
Well, the way the trick ended in disaster, I doubt many televiewers would be inclined to buy the DVD.
It was his fault and nobody else’s. He got all the help from the TV program. He got a beautiful assistant. The TV folks provided him with a translator. And most of all, they provided his performance with a heart-pounding musical scoring that really built up his presentation.
Still he messed up big time. The cause for the blooper was as old as the oldest hills. The Masked Magician performed a trick he had not yet mastered. My youngest son can do the trick blindfolded, but the Masked Magician couldn’t do it with his mask on, because he didn’t practice it enough.
Watch the video and enjoy the spectacle of the Masked Magician squirming, groping for words to cover his mistake, trying desperately to find an “out” but instead sinking deeper and deeper into an unsalvageable performance.
If you are as sadist as the Filipino magician named Leodini, here’s a chance to enjoy the Masked Magician’s well-deserved karma.
Stay magical,
Leodini
Sir Leo,
Well he deserves what happened and we could see how nervous he is even under the mask to the point he was imagining that there was a FIFTH ace. For someone like him revealing tricks that he himself hasn’t mastered doesn’t give him the right to publish it in a DVD.
I hope he learned his lesson.
Jordan
Hi Jordan,
Why he hasn’t mastered it is a riddle to me. I learned the trick as a young, wide-eyed wannabe magician eons ago. It is so easy to perform. In fact, it is so easy you have to exert great effort to mess it up.
Stay magical,
Leodini
sir,
he failed miserably..i feel sorry for him..magicians are not perfect..but it is a rule that before doing a trick..magicians should practise it well..right??guess he deserves it..
and isn’t this trick self working??
kevin
. . . the law of KARMA never fails . . .
I saw this long ago, and was greatly happy when it happened but i felt sorry for him later on…
The video on the masked magicians tells us one thing… practice, practice, practice. That’s it.
THE MASKED MAGICIAN IS A SHAME FOR OUR PROFESSION !!!!
i HAVE GIVEN IN MY LIFE (66 YEARS ON STAGE!!!!)
10.000 PERFORMANCES
i CAN PROUDLY SAY : I N E V E R FAILED
A small mistake once 25 years ago on spanish Television
due to humidity TWO cards stuckl together when they came out from a RISING CARD DECK…..
so when the worng card showed up and I realized what has happened: I took the front card away and said:
OH sorry the Queen of spades (which was the real choosen card) just was hiding behind the ^ of clubs…discarded the 6 of Clubs and the “mistake” was saved!
You must be inventive when a problemsituation comes up…
I am known as the Magician who is so precise professional THAT HE JUST NEVER FAILS(one exception=mentioned above)…..
I gave my last performance on February 06 (3 weeks ago) here in Manila for Mrs. MILA HOW (a chinese Millionaire) and I made a 1 hour 10 minutes show …received a standig ovation : and that with 85 years old…….(I am born 1923 !!!!) in October I will be 86 years old……………
The Filipino Magicians are all very nice there are several Clubs but there is friendship not competition.
My favorite performer is LOU HILARIO : he is versatile and has a huge repertoire>>>>>AND his presentation has international standard.
I NEVER ( unfortunatly) saw Leodini in a performance so I can noty make comments….
Invite me next time.
All the best : PAUL POTASSY
Hi Leo and Paul,
Unfortunaely I could not get that video played, a message appeared
in the sense that for “blabla copyright reason” this video was
deleted off the list. (That was written in German, so it may be
that access from a German based PC is meant only).
Nevermind, and by now that guy’s “explanations” are tiring.
You both will agree that “life shows” right in front of specs
sitting close do amaze them more than any magic on TV.
I met Finn Jon last night with an admirable sleight of hand act (old classic effects, but with such skill that you wouldnt’ mind “knowing” that the “explanation” was a TT or a magnet, so to speak.)
Pity, though, that this mask-man mentions these tools, although I never came across a spec or his reaction, that “now I know how the rope was cut.” To me it’s the way of the HOW to perform it, possibly with a touch of comedy wherever possible (think Tommy Cooper!).
I never really want to “discuss” with specs after (let alone during) the show, but when it so happens, and you do come along a wisecrack, then I will give him this example :
If someone wonders how music is played by on a piano, would you explain that the secret simply is that the musician secretly clicks on some white and black keys? That’s the simple explanation, and that’s how it’s done. Now we can all do that.
By the way, Paul, we never met in Manila. I was an Honorary Member of the IMC like you, but now I am a full member there. (Not only a member, but among very good friends and colleagues, mentioning names like Leo, Lou, Cris, Boy, Chubby, Doc Ronny, etc. and last not least my pal Edison Chua.)
Should we meet, I would like to warm up thoughts on our mutual friend. George, eg., “Great Kovari”. George,Susan, and the kids, we met many times in his Watford/London home, and we swapped illusions in those days.
Best wishes,
Ted
Ted Orlando forwarded me a message from Ken:
Dear Ted,
The video has been removed for some obscure reason, however I get the point. It reminds me of that American guy who exposed our cage trick for all the world to see.
It serves the bugger right.
Cheers!
Ken.
I think that the mistake might be of the tv host who was told that she has to take 3 cards and put one on the top of the other deck…however if you watch closes the second time she does it she takes off two cards from the top and puts the third on the deck which is not how she was told to do. And thats what i feel led to the mess up.