12 Minute Coin in Bottle Routine?

[Master Payne]

My take on this close up effect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VCUQ3wOBog

[Tom Gilbert]

Very entertaining. And so true about being a kid, saving your money, and a piece of you dying when you opened the package. Hope you have more friends now.

[magicrobharv]

So true, so true. Very entertaining. I liked the part where the giant coke bottle comes out. Sad thing is some of those tricks are still for sale, waiting for their next victim to buy them.

[trip666]

Dude, everything I've seen you do is highly entertaining. You're just a fun guy to watch.

Loved all the variations you had. Good stuff!!!

Greg

[Curtis Kam]

Bravo! Far too short.

[Steve Bryant]

Hilarious.

[Kent Gunn]

That was just chock full of awesome.

[Ian Kendall]

That was wonderful :)

[NCMarsh]

Delightful!

[Pete McCabe]

Outstanding.

[Curtis Kam]

Master Payne, do you perform this routine for real audiences, or is it just something for magicians? I think the experience of being ripped off from an overhyped ad is universal, at least in the U.S. But even given that, there's a lot to get across before the lay audience will fully appreciate the humor here, IMHO.

[Master Payne]

I have performed it twice in front of so-called Lay Audiences and it has played well. The video is only the fifth or sixth time I've performed it as it really doesn't fit in my usual repertoire. I created it because I came across the giant Coke Bottle and it just spoke to me.
I'd love to have a venue to perform it regularly to get all the kinks worked out and have the patter refined. Perhaps I should send the video to the Castle so as to work the Close up room for a week. Not that they'd ever book a single trick set :)

[AMCabral]

Change "magic catalog" to "back of a comic book" and you've sucked in all the laypeople.

Caught this on Facebook the other day. Top notch, Payne. Funny as hell.

-T

[Donal Chayce]

Quote/Master Payne
Perhaps I should send the video to the Castle so as to work the Close up room for a week. Not that they'd ever book a single trick set :)

I don't know about the Close-Up Gallery, but Whit Haydn's set during a week at the Palace several months ago consisted solely of his 20-minute "Teleportation Device" routine.

He was also emceeing, but as I recall the only magic he performed was during the aforementioned set.

[Pete McCabe]

David Regal once did the parlor with just three tricks. It was a great show.

[TNTJR]

outstanding.

[Terry]

I see nothing wrong with it as it plays now.

It is an excellent presentation of a beginner magician that resonates with all of us who have been "misled" by catalog ads.

[Frank Starsinic]

Awesome, Payne!

[Paul Green]

Great!!!! What a charming AND entertaining set. Thanks for sharing it. Contact me directly if you would like some assistance with the Magic Castle.

Regards,

Paul Green