How to make Teller laugh, Book

Description

The FISM world champion on what really makes magic work — from the moment Teller lost it on Fool Us.

Markobi

The FISM world champion explores what really makes magic work — the audience’s experience — and explains his favourite card routine, followed by creative “Booster Packs”.

Las Vegas, on the set of Penn & Teller: Fool Us. Markobi starts his act and, a few seconds in, Teller bursts out laughing — not a polite smile, a real, uncontrollable laugh. For those who know Teller, that is almost impossible. That moment is the question behind this book: what really makes magic work?

In How to Make Teller Laugh, Markobi looks at magic from an angle rarely explored: the experience lived by the audience. Magic is not only mechanics; it lives in atmosphere, rhythm, humour and those micro-moments when the mind stops analysing and lets itself be carried away. Drawing on years of performance, the world champion of card magic shares his vision of a freer, more alive magic where the unexpected and risk-taking are part of the experience.

Markobi then goes behind the scenes of one of his favourite card routines — not only the method but the choices, intentions and subtleties that make it live in front of a real audience — and closes with a series of “Booster Packs”: raw ideas, concepts and creative leads designed as fuel for your own magic.