Description
“I now know that Celebrity Smart Ass is the reason I created the Smart Ass concept in the first place. It’s a perfect marriage of bulletproof method and commercial presentation. AND it’s no longer a card trick anymore! Celebrity Smart Ass a permanent piece in my show…and now it can be for you too!”
– Bill Abbott
Celebrity Smart Ass Routine
The topic of celebrities and our endless fascination with them is introduced. You proceed to conduct a test of the audience’s celebrity knowledge by using cards with first names on them. Going through the dozens of cards you call out each celebrity first name and the audience calls out the celebrity’s last name. For example you say, “Paris!” the audience says, “Hilton!”, you say “Tiger!” they say, “Woods!”, you say “Britney”, they say, “Spears!” etc. To take the test to the next level you ask for the help of a celebrity expert from the audience. Someone with almost intuitive or psychic ability in their mastery of celebrity identification. A volunteer is invited on stage, shown a large envelope, is offered a chair and asked to sit down on the envelope. Now using the volunteer’s “celebrity intuition” with the help of their “psychic derriere” they will attempt to deduce the mystery celebrity whose photo resides in the envelope they are now sitting on. The spectator is handed the pack of celebrity names and is instructed to take about half in each hand. They are asked to toss one half away and keep the other. After they do this they cut the remaining names into two piles, holding one in each hand and they once again toss one pile away and keep the other. Down to the last few names, the participant chooses one, having the opportunity to change their mind as many times as they like. Their final choice is revealed and it’s “Tom” for Tom Cruise. The spectator stands and hands you the envelope. Unbelievably they have found the needle in the haystack, as you pull out a photo of Tom Cruise…at the age of six months! A photo of a cute baby is revealed and the volunteer goes back to their seat to some polite applause and a lot of laughter! You unfold the photo explaining that the you hope that no one is easily offended as Tom Cruise is naked in this photo, and the baby is in fact, in the buff, when the photo is opened! You then ask the audience if they think that Mr. Cruise looks cuter as a baby, then he does now as an adult? Suddenly you turn the large tabloid-size photo over to reveal a very large (grown up) head shot of…Tom Cruise!
Celebrity Smart Ass Considerations:
- Perform Celebrity Smart Ass close-up and surrounded.
- Perform Celebrity Smart Ass for large audiences.
- Celebrity Smart Ass packs small and plays big.
- Celebrity Smart Ass happens in their hands.
- Celebrity Smart Ass takes seconds to reset.
- Perform Celebrity Smart Ass naked (if you need to).
- Celebrity Smart Ass is suitable for corporate and family audiences.
- Celebrity Smart Ass uses no equivoque or magician’s choice.
- Celebrity Smart Ass uses no switch of the envelope prediction or flash card.
- Celebrity Smart Ass uses any borrowed chair.
- Celebrity Smart Ass is NOT a card trick!
The Celebrity Smart Ass Package Includes:
- Deck of specially constructed customizable blank-faced Bicycle brand playing cards.
- Heavy Duty Fibreboard Prediction Envelope
- Large 3-Stage Revelation Tabloid Photo on 100 lb Card Stock
- A DVD that features…
-A Convention Performance of the routine.
-A Family Show Performance of the routine.
-In-depth instruction of the routine and method.
Stabbed and Shot
Direct from Bill Abbott’s professional repertoire and showcased in his best selling book Table Magic, Stabbed and Shot is a killer card stab with a shot glass production that comes out of nowhere!
The Routine
A card is selected from a shuffled deck – signed – returned and shuffled by a spectator. An empty paper bag that is examined by the audience is introduced and the deck is tossed inside. A spectator is asked to shake the bag to mix the cards and make the finding of the chosen card even more impossible. The magician removes a knife and stabs it into (and through!) the bag. Violently the knife is ripped from the bag and a single card is impaled on the end of the blade… the spectator’s signed selection!
Just when the audience applause has died down the performer reaches into the bag and produces a large shot glass filled to the brim with water! (Or other liquid)
- Perform Stabbed and Shot in short sleeves.
- The shot glass production uses real liquid and is BULLETPROOF and safe.
- Can be performed close-up and surrounded or on stage.
- Reveal one or two cards at the point of a knife.
- You can even borrow the bag, the knife and the deck!
- Instant reset.
Package Includes:
- Large Shot Glass.
- Durable Seal that you never need to replace.
- Extra Secret Something for a sure-fire card stab revelation.
- Supply your own knife.
- A 90 minute DVD that features a house party performance, a comedy club performance and a studio performance
- In-depth instruction of the rouine and method.
- Multiple methods and controls, so spectator can shuffle the deck before and after a card is selected and signed.
Bonus Routines:
- Cupid (the double stab for lovers)
- Borrowed (borrow the deck, bag, knife and shot glass)
- The Ninja Card Trick (classic!)
- And much much more!
