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.. from Vaudeville at the Baker, the Stupidest Thing I Have Ever Done On Stage… Sometimes I feel almost ashamed. Sometimes.
The past few weeks I have been going to the “Open Mic” night at a local comedy club to work on some material. Open Mic nights are good places to, well, “not be brilliant” in front of a non-magician, non-family-member audience, because they’ll be totally honest in their responses to your material. Here are some [...]
“Strolling Entertainer” is a phrase which magicians use to describe any set of performing circumstances where they don’t have a set place in which to perform. I like “Ambient Entertainment” a little more because it brings what we do more in line with what musicians and other variety artists do – provide ambiance for an [...]
A friend of mine, Steven Moore (of the now famous Knight of the Living Dead Kindle book!) and I were talking about what it’s like doing more than one “job”, that is, being a magician and doing something as a “day job”. Steven has had a few full time magicians give him grief about not [...]
If you’ve spent much time at Renaissance Faires, you know that there’s this guy named William Shakespeare who is touted about as having written a very large number of popular plays. Many of them are quite funny – and I’m not just talking about the ones with all the blood and gore and killing. However, [...]
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Keep Calm-o-matic poster generation. Tobias’ Credo, if you haven’t worked it out by now.
Hey Kids! A very Happy Merry Jolly Festive whatever it is you do during the cold, dark winter months from all of us… ok both of us… here at the Tobias the Adequate show to all of you. Yeah, even you there. Here’s some Cheap Advice and a video: I you purchase a book with [...]
A little quick story time – I’m not dead. Just… busy. More forthcoming!
“Do you do birthday parties?” As a magician, you get this… a lot. Or at least I do. And to be completely honest, I don’t do a lot of birthday parties… because the show I have is not really a “birthday party show”. It took more than a little tactless examination of the show I’ve [...]
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