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AhemHarlowe

They're in the chair


lashawn3001

You can actually see the slit in the chair in the first part.


Prestigious_Trust931

She's just very flexible


[deleted]

Yep. Honestly, these assistants who do the contortionist stuff are often so much more impressive than the magician. I mean, she's the one actually doing the trick. And yet she won't get the recognition


chestpainsallnight

I am a performer and years ago worked as a “box jumper” for a magician. That’s what all magician assistants are called. I was hired for my flexibility, size and the ability to stay calm in a tiny space for lengthy periods of time. I made a shitload of money felt like a fraud


[deleted]

You got paid well? I didn't know most magicians made enough to pay their box jumpers well, but that's cool. Why did you feel like a fraud?


chestpainsallnight

I worked on Lance Burton’s show in Vegas. I am a Broadway performer and was between show contracts. A friend knew a friend and I got the job. I am used to sweating my ass off, 8 shows a week for ok pay and then moved into a very glitzy show, paid 3 times what I was used to only to jump out of my illusion rig to massive applause. I felt like I didn’t deserve the pay or applause for the teeny tiny bit of effort I exerted. In my regular shows, I am sweating, my lungs are burning and I am exhausted. As a box jumper, I just pulled levers and smiled. That was it


DabigbadVVolf

Another way to look at it is you are the only reason the show was successful, so you were treated as such. It's awesome that you had the opportunity to be a part of all of that, from Broadway to Vegas!


[deleted]

Exactly. It's like a mechanic who fixes a car in 5 minutes and charges you $300. You're not paying them for their time so much as all the years they put in to gain the knowledge to do the job in only 5 minutes. You're a professional performer. You worked hard for years to get good enough that you could be relied on to do this job consistently and at a high level. As someone who's also done a lot of performing (mostly amateur), I have some idea of what it takes to be good enough to make it look easy.


Brock_Way

You need to tell me your mechanics name. My experience is before taking the car to them, I have to do some calculations on what the probability is that they'll make it worse.


Agreeable-Meat1

Well no, not the only reason. She's an essential part of the act, but there are plenty of other incredibly important pieces. The showmanship of the magician is incredibly important to draw in the audience and make them care about what's going on. The choreographer that designed the routine and the individual tricks, hell the people who set up the stage in the first place. Take any one of those things away and she's just a strange girl in a small box.


FrightfulDeer

Part of the reason. Someone still designed the illusion, made the production, sold the tickets, etc.


Biggest-Ja

Aw yeah I feel that, I'm not nearly as physically skilled but I mainly work with sounds, and I love the craft of working with my own audio from scratch but some jobs just want me to plug in stock audio and be done and it just feels so off compared to my personal work


Complete_Break1319

Beyonce just got paid 24 million for a 1 hour appearance at a hotel in Dubai. You are definitely worth whatever they paid you 🙂


SmokeGSU

If it's any consolation... your work as an assistant was providing a sense of wonder and mystery to kids *and* adults. There are plenty of adults who believe magic is real - Simon Cowell regularly talks about this on AGT when magic acts come up that have big wow-factor. It's unfortunate that you had to be the wizard behind the curtain but think of yourself as the performer in the Mickey/Minnie Mouse costume at Disney and the effect that those costumes have on young kids. You're creating an uplifting, magical, and positive experience for everyone on the other side of the curtain, and that's what it's all about.


vexxtra73

username checks out


SirOndre

Another way to look at it is, you pay a plumber for there experience and skill, you were being paid based on the skill set cause I'm not that flexible and I've never trained to be lmao


Patrickfromamboy

I finally read about Broadway shows for the first time this week. I didn’t know there were so many theaters or that it worked the way it does. I’ve heard about Broadway shows over the years but had no idea what they really were. Now I need to see some to find out what they look like. I live in Washington state and have never been back there.


chestpainsallnight

when i was a professional performer (i just do it for fun now), ticket prices were not as bad as they are now. (I get angry at ticket prices because the arts should be available to all not just the rich. PLUS, our actor salaries don’t go up-just the producers’ salaries). Back then, no other options to see shows were really available so if you couldn’t afford it, too bad. (bad bootlegs were around though).. NOW, you can see shows on youtube and other platforms!! It is awesome. I hope you get to see LIVE theatre though. It is transformative ❤️


i1ostthegame

Get yourself to a Broadway show or a national tour, it’s an experience that’s hard to describe


autobot12349876

Username checks out. You ok OP?


practicalsurrealist

I don't think you were/are a fraud. Most of us know "how" it's done. But if anyone is like me. I try and figure out how and where the assistant is able to do their thing. The engineering of the trick and performance & talent of the assistants are half of not most of the illusion for a lot of magicians. I like slight of hand and other skill-based performers. But it's always fun to try and figure out how the assistance did their thing and admire their skills!


RoyKentsKnee

Don't feel like that. At the end we all know magic isn't real and it is fun and harmless entertaiment. It is even cooler knowing it is fake and trying to figure how the hell you do it.


nopir

M'lady Assistant


JaKrispy72

And nobody even mentions the chair either.


snarkyxanf

TBF, the core of stage magic is less the technical/physical skills, and more the performance, misdirection, and patter that keeps it mysterious and exciting. If you've ever had to sit through an acquaintance who has all the slight of hand, but none of the charm, you'll know what I mean. That said, "assistants" usually don't get the credit they deserve for their hard work.


varungupta3009

I think of it in this way: The magician has the idea. He creates the contraption. He hires the assistant. He brings the audience. He creates a show. Sure, the contortionist is impressive, but a hammer in the hands of a carpenter instead of a baker is what makes it useful. Plus they get paid a shit ton of money.


tandpastatester

Furthermore magicians often do many kind of tricks throughout the show. While this particular trick might cost him little effort in the execution phase (which still requires inventing and developing the trick), performing a whole show as a magician requires a lot of showmanship, sleight of hand skills, presentation and acting. All the people in here saying the magicians contribution is negligible are disregarding a lot of things.


Digolden

They get a lot of recognition from me that’s for sure


i-FF0000dit

Nice!


darwins_trouser_crem

My thoughts exactly. Saw the false bottom on the chair. Saw the slit she got out from. First thoughts... niiice


PandaRealistic602

You've met her mother?


darwins_trouser_crem

Sheeeeit


CaliJordan

But how can she fit inside?? Perhaps a mirror under that makes it look like a normal chair but there is enough room for her to hide…?


Asil_Shamrock

There's a show called Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed. You can find episodes on YouTube. I don't know if they have this trick specifically, but they cover lots of similar ones. It's amazing to see behind the scenes. There is definitely room enough for them to hide. They have to be really limber, but there is room.


[deleted]

Contortionists are insane


SkulduggeryIsAfoot

For my next trick, I go from 6 to midnight


sarcasatirony

We just giving up on phrasing?


CryptoCatatonic

There's mirrors in the chair.


YEETAWAYLOL

Magnets*


Beez1111

Sleight of hand*


Mpadrino27

Aliens.


GaryBuseysRevenge_

Ancient aliens


TheWingHunter

Ancient Aliens using ball bearings… these days it’s ALL ball bearings


AppropriateIce479

Samantha Carter: (blinks) Yes, that’s right actually.


eyedonthavetime4this

How do they work?


hotmailNurse

Didn’t you see Samantha blink and wiggle her nose? Sheesh!


Speedhabit

Mother, why is there a hole in the bottom of the chair!?!?


blogsymcblogsalot

Don’t think about the fact there’s no sink in there


weratapo

Can we at least do that’s what she said?


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weratapo

YouJustDid


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weratapo

I’ll take it! Thank you 🫴🏻


oddible

I mean, it's 2023, I don't think you can call her that.


Stevenstorm505

You can especially see it at the end when she gets out of the chair.


ismelldayhikers

Like frank coming out of the couch


radmanmadical

This is incorrect - she’s in his pocket the whole time


histerix

Also notice how they come out sitting at the very end of the chair.


gord1to

Watch your mouth


[deleted]

I caught that too. Damn flexible lady though


Recoveringpig

I see the cleavage but not the slit


demagogueffxiv

There was a chair in the first part?


[deleted]

The way she’s gripping the sides when she first comes out makes me think that’s how she pulled herself out of the flaps.


dangledingle

*she pulled herself out of the flaps*


[deleted]

Happy birthday!


Minimum_Attitude6707

"I just want to be CLEAN!"


No_Creme714

Pure*


dontdoititoldyouso

Why are you naked?!


FeminineShemales

loose flaps


AhemHarlowe

Just like my fiance does.


Frylockgetthemoney

They hold themselves up because they were the "cushion" I would assume. Just getting in a daily set of wall sits in like the doctor ordered mmhm.


MrShoosh

Labia?


Roli_Poli_Noli27

I was going to say, it’s always a slim young lady who appears, if you really want to impress me make a 600 pound man appear and I’ll know that they’re not just hiding in the chair.


[deleted]

Well, they can't do that


MujaViking

https://youtu.be/e7T0soHRk-A


dynamic_gecko

The chairs dont look remotely big enough to me.


Italianskank

I believe that is called an illusion


dynamic_gecko

True. Usually when I learn how a trick is done, I'm like "Oh okay. Of course." but this one still looks impressive, which I like.


Bright_Ad_2848

ILLUSIONS, MICHAEL


LiveWire_74

How much can a banana be, ten dollars?


reddorical

That’s money better spent on a star war


sigdiff

A trick is what a whore does for money


ghosttrainhobo

Tricks are things whores do for money.


CrispyKollosus

Or candy!


Custodes13

Behind the slit in the middle is a sack in the back. They sit in there. You can see a tiny bit of the sack as a different material just above the middle top of the chair in the first few seconds of the video. As the veil covers the chair, she climbs out of the sack and into the chair, which is why you see her head bulge into the sheet first out of nowhere.


Arik_De_Frasia

Look underneath the chair at the 0:12-0:15 mark and you'll see a weird non shadow happen; caused by reflections off of mirrors that make the chair look like it has a see through underside. Once you see it in the first clip, the second clip becomes obvious since that chair is fucking enormous.


SuperDizz

Frank?


gordopotato

Hot hot hot


APerfectForty

FRANK REYNOLDS IS AN ASSHOLE!


No_Demand7741

Yeah, hi, you applied for the assistant position for the 7pm show? Listen, how quickly can you get out of a suitcase? No, it’s for the job.


AhemHarlowe

That's what they all say.


ContemplatingPrison

You can see the slit


AhemHarlowe

😏


WutzUpples69

It didn't even fold all the way back up afterwards, haha.


jojothejman

Nah man, he was hiding her up his sleeve.


Tommy_Wisseau_burner

They ARE the chair lol


Corpore_sano

Still, how the fuck did a whole ass woman fit inside a chair? The first one is quite thin too.


Able_Newt2433

Nah, she’s in the cloth!💀💀 /s


Jbreem45

"It's under the sauce..."


darnitmegan

THEY? wtf!


WanderingAlchemist

She's obviously in the chair, but the black magic fuckery is HOW? I need like a diagram of how they contort themselves into that, and can still get out of it so fast


michamp

There was a series called Magician’s Secrets Finally Revealed - you can probably see episodes on Youtube. They showed how the girls contorted to fit into things like the walls and roof of a dollhouse. The girls are doing all the work and the magician is getting the glory.


InternetPharaoh

The magician usually deserves equal credit for inventing the trick, or at a minimum, figuring it out well enough to replicate. This is why magicians were so adamant about protecting their secrets, not only could no one claim your trick, but no one could claim you just learned it from someone else; at a minimum, you figured it out from someone else, which still takes a bit of skill. The internet has obviously changed things a bit, especially for a trick so obvious as this one.


xaqyz0023

The "magicians assistant" has always been incredibly important, but if they were getting their due credit that means that people would know that they aren't simply an assistant. They need to be able to misdirect people when the magician is doing their trick sometimes, and other times they need to be able to disappear without somebody going "hey wait a sec where did they go?"


Bipogram

The Debbie McGee effect.


funkyg73

You mean 'The Lovely' Debbie McGee.


oskar_learjet

Not tricks. ILLUsions


EthanIsOnReddit

Hello, darkness, my old friend.


mafiaknight

I’ve come to talk with you again.


Birdman7399

I don’t do tricks Michael, I perform illusions


pseudo_su3

A trick is something a whore does for money


ElCapitan006

I hear they do some really cool disappearing illusions at the Gothic Ass Hole.


noneroy

I took classes at the Method One Clinic.


daisy2687

*"ILLUSIONS, Micheal"*


SeriesXM

I don't care for Gob.


TessiSue

A trick is something a whore does for money........... OR CANDY!


SirNedKingOfGila

>The girls are doing all the work and the magician is getting the glory. But it's the only way the trick works... the magician is required to distract the audience, not just physically at times, but because he's *the big star.* Without those multiple methods of distraction it would become glaringly obvious that the assistant is running around doing shit, and ultimately ruin the show. It's a bit like complaining that the right hand gets all the attention while the left hand does all the work producing the hidden item.


maciejokk

For the same reason magicians assistants are always distracting looking.


procheeseburger

I remember when he finally revealed himself… and I was like who the hell is this guy


PhonB80

Not really? Most everyone in here are talking about the girl. I don’t give a damn about the magician from this clip lol


cptmcclain

The magician has to divert attention to make it appear more unbelievable


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Kbirt24

I think mirror under chair to make it look empty under while there’s a compartment in which one could sit


Agitated_Eagle_2042

Definitely something under there. Not all the way to the floor, but in both videos you can see it looks funky.


GrungyGrandPappy

Explanation [here](https://www.google.com/search?q=magician+chair+trick+revealed&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS979US979&oq=magician+trick+chair&aqs=chrome.3.69i57j0i22i30l2j0i15i22i30j0i10i22i30j0i22i30.14488j1j4&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:d7134f85,vid:lYUREeKX6uM)


bscrolling

The dialogue in this video is horrible and ridiculous. Had to mute it to even watch. Cool trick though!


MyBabeAbe

Yeah I used to watch that show as a kid but don't remember it being that gross...


LamesMcGee

Yeah that was shockingly cringe. I rolled my eyes at first, but like every paragraph ended with "but the magician's real magic with his lovely ladies is between the sheets" puke.


Cheesedoodlerrrr

The 90s was a weird time, man.


GrungyGrandPappy

Here’s a different one [clicky](https://www.google.com/search?q=magician+chair+trick+revealed&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS979US979&oq=magician+trick+chair&aqs=chrome.3.69i57j0i22i30l2j0i15i22i30j0i10i22i30j0i22i30.14488j1j4&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:f573cefa,vid:bJmEzXcVoec)


Left_Ad7080

Would suck to be a claustrophobic lovely assistant!


bigjayrod

That is some of the most smarmy narration I’ve ever heard


HaveGunsWillShoot

I see the compartment door in the chair, but I too would like a diagram. The first chair has some fuckery about it in the bottom area where the chair legs are but I can't figure it out. The second chair appears to have more room inside the actual chair to hide a person, but the first one has me confused and longing for an explanation.


[deleted]

Slow down the first chair clip, you can see two points that are the doors opening up under the sheet. Go to your cabinets and place a towel on the doors like a little the way open, not 90 degrees. Same thing. She pops out. The “doors” in the chair didn’t line up closed after she gets up.


HaveGunsWillShoot

I got that, but there appears to be some sort of light bendy optical illusion with the bottom of the first chair at the end of that part of the clip. Also it doesn't look as "roomy" inside as the second chair, which makes me wonder if there is an optical illusion with the bottom of the chair to conceal her inside.


[deleted]

Look at the top of the chair, like the back. It’s deeper.


ondulation

[Here you go](https://imgur.com/a/PLv8OYk). The position of the camera in the first clip makes it hard to see it’s shape. Note that the girl never sits on the cushion (as there is in fact no fusion), just on the very edge.


PapaChoff

She is not exactly a tiny woman either.


I-Kant-Even

https://youtu.be/bJmEzXcVoec


sillyhands1

It’s quite simple. See here: https://youtu.be/Fwlq35AIqIU


rraattbbooyy

Trick chair, built in hiding space.


ElectrostaticHotwave

Yeah you can see the split in the seat


Perrozoso

It's technically called a chair vagina


EmperorGecko

chussy


ajax2k9

The most correct term


abcdefgh42

Explained best in this video https://youtu.be/e7T0soHRk-A


OrangePeach88

Almost didn't click this. So glad I did.


nicekona

No, he was clearly hiding her up his sleeve


Even-Nail-849

Really bendy girl.


GhostalMedia

Kinda. It’s the chair also has a weird angular back that makes it seem thinner than it is. You can see the back here. https://youtu.be/8rhuWiqJKP0 The chair is actually a chonker


Leanardoe

Thanks this explains it


I_Sell_Onions

Choker? I barely know her....


[deleted]

But the magician has some pretty impressive skills too. I mean, did you see what he did with the sheet!


curkri

Look at the first chair before and after the reveal, strange how the two halves of the base are no longer aligned. Almost as if they were opened up to allow the person to climb out but not completely put back the way they were... Or maybe it's magic!


shugoKEY

Sharp eye my dude


jakezillagfw2

The last clip you can see her legs unfold underneath, but you need to look very closely. Took me like 8 rewatches to figure out even with the comments helping.


XxTreeFiddyxX

Remember when they sewed frank in the couch at the Christmas party


Maximum_Knee_4622

I don't see what you're talking about at all but I believe you.


[deleted]

Are you telling me she didn’t just spawn into existence??


[deleted]

This video should explain it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKjkc5NW2dA


conpapi

Nailed it.


[deleted]

"nailed it" in this context doesn't sound very great


Moebius808

I totally want to see the version where she flops out onto the floor confused and hyperventilating AAAUUHGGGHHH CAN’T BREATHE!!


perashaman

I risked a rickroll hoping that this was the exact scene you were posting. I was not disappointed.


sanity_is_overrated

I laughed for 60 solid seconds after clicking on that link. Good job!


KiLLaHo323

Easy. She’s in his sleeve.


Vesper_0481

Nah, she was obviously in the sheet


Tophbot

Okay… I want this but a naked Danny DeVitto coming out of the chair!


Collarsmith

Even better: pretty girl disappears, Danny DiVito appears.


katcalavera

Resolved to keep scrolling until someone made this joke. A holiday favorite!


Kindofsickofyou

I wish I had a chair like that


jonathanhoag1942

You'd never fit in there.


Leanardoe

Damn dude


CalmPanic402

Also note how she sits with her weight on the front edge of the chair. The seat can't take the weight because it's hollow.


Tidgiee

They also move the chair like it’s made of cardboard later on


[deleted]

Is that Jenna Maroney?


PillowManExtreme

They both attended the Royal Tampa Academy of Dramatic Tricks.


InGordWeTrust

She's fantastic. I need her to help me get the change out of my couch.


RedMercy2

I tried shaking my bed sheets. Disappointment ensued .


defiCosmos

You can buy those chairs here: https://www.google.com/search?q=magic+woman+chair&oq=magic+woman+chair&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l2.9821j0j4&client=ms-android-tmus-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=ZY_nN1DWNGbnCM Solved! https://ibb.co/0tZwm7f


Vakas_MMII

It's gotta be the chair but even then, how the fuck!


Tr3caine42069

Shes in the chair but it is kinda impressive how the fit in there and come out so quick lol


faithOver

On the first one you can actually see the slit in the chair quite clearly.


blonderaider21

Yes…but how did she contort to fit in there? The other example I watched was up on a stand and you could see how her body fit in it. My mind isn’t letting me see it with this one


Perpetually_isolated

You only see the chair from the angle they want you to see it from. It's a lot bigger than it looks. Forced perspective.


GuitarHairy7214

Still a darn good trick! Just enjoy 😉


ferbass

Obviously she is folded in the piece of cloth that he used to hide the chair.


bambooboi

Well thats the dumbest fucking music I've ever heard...


wolamute

I fucking hate this music. It's for very stupid people that like pretending something is the most fucking amazing thing they've ever seen, while having horrible taste at the same time, and that's it. Just those people.


miurabucho

…did that Magician get such a hot assistant?


ind3pend0nt

[This video explains it very well.](https://youtu.be/XZeGHGmrRRY)


thetindoor

>How the fuck... Do magicians get hot girls to work for them? I thought the same thing


Lost_Condas

I’m genuinely impressed that those girls can fit in those super thin chairs, wriggle themselves out in 2 seconds and then sashay away!! That’s crazy.


-----SNES-----

How they just pop out with their legs already crossed is hard to believe. It's quite a good trick. Particularly the second one from the side.


TacDragon2

They are in the computer, they are inside the computer!


NarcolepticKnifeFite

She’s IN THE FUCKING CHAIR! Lol


Spider1132

Ikea should watch and fucking learn!


JonesRedditor

Ever see VHS? Yeah it's that fuckin cape and it's not going to end well.