Magicians

WATCH: Disappearing Friend Photo Prank

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 09.05.2013 | UK Comedy

Magician Rahat is back - and up to his naughty ways again. This time, he's asking strangers to take a photo of him and his friend - only for his fr...

WATCH: Human Chair Prank

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 08.04.2013 | UK Comedy

This is easily the silliest, daftest prank we've seen in a long time - and as a result, it's making us laugh like a drain. It involves, quite simpl...

'Were My Groupies All Over 16? OMG I Hope So'

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 24.12.2012 | UK

Magician Paul Daniels has written a blog in which he recalls sharing a "passionate" kiss with a schoolgirl and admits it was "impossible" to tell if f...

Caroline Frost

Dynamo: 'I Took Away Their Strength'

HuffingtonPost.com | Caroline Frost | Posted 23.10.2012 | UK Entertainment

Magician Dynamo has revealed to HuffPostUK that he’s a lot more careful about what he puts on Twitter these days… "I’m so careful now. Befor...

David Blaine Back In Action, And Ready To Shock

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 03.12.2012 | UK Entertainment

Daredevil David Blaine is ready to shock people with a three-day, three-night stunt where he stands in the middle of a million volts of electric curre...

Caroline Frost

TV REVIEW: How Does Derren Brown Do It?

HuffingtonPost.com | Caroline Frost | Posted 18.09.2012 | UK Entertainment

How does Derren Brown do it? No, this is not a rhetorical question. I'm really asking. No one in the audience is an actor or stooge, we kept being...

Magical Edinburgh Fringe

Chris Cox | Posted 22.10.2012 | UK Comedy
Chris Cox

For over 10 years I've spent most of August in Edinburgh at the festival and for five of those years I've been performing shows. Now working on a year on, year off system I took the opportunity to enjoy Edinburgh without the stress of doing a show and to catch up on what my magical colleagues were up to.

Wooden 'Robot' Performs Cups And Balls Trick (VIDEO)

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 03.08.2012 | UK Comedy

It's a classic magic trick thought to date back over 2,000 years ago. Involving three cups and three small balls, the performer creates a spectacl...

A Chat With Andy Nyman About the Golden Rules Of Acting

Chris Cox | Posted 28.09.2012 | UK Entertainment
Chris Cox

For twenty-five years Andy Nyman has worked in theatre, film and television. As an 11-year-old boy, he sat in a Leicester cinema watching Jaws, "There I was, a stocky little curly haired Jew seeing a stocky little curly haired Jew playing the lead in a film, I released this isn't fantasy. I could actually do that."

Getting Show Ready

Chris Cox | Posted 25.07.2012 | UK Comedy
Chris Cox

In the days leading up to a show, I spend a lot of my time making sure I'm show ready. I'm probably in the minority of comedy acts that do this, but then again I'm not 'just' a comedy act, some people would say I'm not even a comedy act, with jokes like that one I've just made, they might have a point.

Paul Daniels Hospitalised By Sooty's Flying Pizza

www.thesun.co.uk | Posted 02.10.2011 | UK Entertainment

TV magician Paul Daniels has been hospitalised - after Sooty smashed him in the face with a pizza. Paul, 73, took a terrible tomato-pasting when he...