“I know how it’s done!”: Japanese TV guest learns what not to say to a magician on live TV【Video】
By Fran Wrigley for RocketNews24
If the first rule of magic is that the illusionist must never tell an audience how a trick is done, the second rule must be that you never interrupt a magician live on air to yell, “I’ve seen this one before! I’ll tell you how he’s doing it…”
Obviously, no one told studio guest Airi Taira that, because that’s exactly what she did during a live TV broadcast featuring Japanese-American magician Sero (セロ) on Tuesday night. Join us after the jump for one flying hoverboard, one defensive peeved magicianand more awkward smiling than you can shake a stick at.
Sero (full name Cyril Takayama) was the star of a primetime special broadcast July 29 on Fuji TV, entitled Magic New Century: Cyril. Seeing as he was coming hot off the heels of a world tour, and this was his first appearance in Japan for three years, the live broadcast, which ranged from tricks incorporating projection mapping, to street magic with members of the public, had attracted quite a bit of buzz….