Ricky Jay on Conan
Posted: September 25th, 2002, 10:41 pm
I just got done watching Ricky on Conan and it was priceless. Ricky started by having Conan select a card (face up) and then losing it in the deck. He then did a one handed cut and partial riffle shuffle. He then let the cards cascade together revealing the chosen card.
He next had Conan select a card (face down), lost it in the deck and then spelled through the entire deck using words such as Conan's favorite fish (Swordfish), related words of his own, Conan's favorite author, and ending with Conan naming his card. Ricky spelled the card named and there was the selected card.
Now comes my favorite part. Ricky performed his cards as weapons routine. But, the picture of Ricky scaling cards at Jackie Chan (promoting his new movie) and Jackie calmly blocking them was priceless. Ricky then proceeded to hurt the poor watermellon.
Gotta love it!
Mark
He next had Conan select a card (face down), lost it in the deck and then spelled through the entire deck using words such as Conan's favorite fish (Swordfish), related words of his own, Conan's favorite author, and ending with Conan naming his card. Ricky spelled the card named and there was the selected card.
Now comes my favorite part. Ricky performed his cards as weapons routine. But, the picture of Ricky scaling cards at Jackie Chan (promoting his new movie) and Jackie calmly blocking them was priceless. Ricky then proceeded to hurt the poor watermellon.
Gotta love it!
Mark