Keith Barry talks about upcoming live show and Morgan Freeman..
The Shape I’m In: Keith Barry, magician..
KEITH BARRY’S new hypnotic show, You’re Back in the Room, got massive ratings from when it premiered on TV3 in March. Ratings were impressive in Britain too and the show is set to head Down Under after the format was sold to an Australian broadcaster.“People are hugely fascinated by the workings of the human mind and by my being able to hypnotise them and get them to do things they wouldn’t normally do,” he says.No matter what hair-brained deeds Keith gets his subjects to do, nobody has ever come back and complained, he says.“With hypnosis, the whole idea is to get rid of inhibitions and free up somebody’s mind to allow them act in a way they wouldn’t normally. People enter it willingly. “They know going in they’re going to do something outside their boundaries or rules. Most of them end up being more positive.
When I’m taking them out of hypnosis, I instil a sense of positivity they’ve never felt before.”Almost a decade on, Keith’s TED Talk remains in the top 20 of most viewed TED Talks. “For it to be still in the top 20, I find just amazing. It has brought me a lot of work. "Somebody in Hong Kong saw it and I ended up going there to do a corporate gig. But when I look at myself on that TED Talk, I cringe.I was a chubby, spiky-haired young fellow,” says the 38-year-old father of two. His children Breanna and Braden are aged six and three. Read the interview below….
Keith Barry’s coming home for Christmas..
By Marjorie Brennan for the Irish Examiner
ILLUSIONIST, magician, mentalist, hypnotist — Keith Barry has been described as all of these.
However, above all, he says he is an entertainer. But he certainly has a magical way with audiences, whether on TV or the stage.
This year, Barry will perform to his home city of Waterford for its annual Christmas festival, Winterval. The illusion will be staged on the city’s Mall on Saturday.
Its top-secret details have been written down and will be stored in a tamper-proof exhibition case at the Waterford Museum of Treasures, at Bishop’s Palace. Members of the public are being invited to guess the illusion in advance, to win a family VIP package for the festival.
Barry was happy to take time out of his hectic schedule for the festival. “They approached me a while back and asked me to get involved, and, of course, I’m delighted to help with anything positive for Waterford. I was born and bred down there, so it’s a no-brainer for me, it’s a great festival for families and kids..
Keith Barry ‘predicts’ Prince Harry baby: Outlandish claims of magician who ‘saw’ Buncefield explosion
By Colin Brennan for the Mirror…
The royal household could soon be celebrating ANOTHER baby after a self-styled ‘mentalist’ predicted Prince Harry would get a girl pregnant.
As one of a series of outlandish claims, Irish ‘hypnotist’ Keith Barry ‘predicts’ that the current fourth in line to the throne will create a “scandal” by getting a girl pregnant in the coming months.
Mr Barry made the prediction on his Facebook page after saying he had been hit with “crazy new premonitions”.
Speaking to his thousands of followers, Mr Barry, who claims to have predicted theBuncefield gas explosion in 2005, reeled off a list of things he expected to happen – including a new royal baby.