Psychic Lawrence wrote:Again I believe that to be entertaining is PART AND PARCEL of being a magician. If you aren't entertaining you are NOT a magician since you haven't mastered the most important part of the art. It is a vital and necessary tool of the trade not an optional extra.
OK. So, an artist needs to be able to draw first and foremost.
A trumpet player needs to be able to play the horn. As it were.
A runner needs to be able to run.
A magician needs to be...able to do magic.
Surely, by definition, Mark, a magician needs to be able to do magic first and foremost?
He may or may not earn the adjective 'entertaining' at some point. But at the bottom of it, he is a magician. Someone that does magic.
Now, the fact that most magicians are fools, with playing card bow ties and flashing bunny pins, and 'hold out your hand, no the clean one' etc a divide has been created. Some good magicians are so embarassed by these weird Annoying Uncle magicians that they attempt to distance themselves, by saying they are now ENTERTAINERS not magicians.
If ALL magicians were as great as Teller, we wouldn't be having this discussion.