Spidermanses Facepaint

The queue for the face painting and the balloon models was massive all day. It was approaching 5pm and the last few were up next.

Up steps a 3 year old boy to the face painter "Have...have...have you any Spidermanses (pronounced Spiderman-zes) left?"

And as quick as a oompah the face painter looked into her red paint dish and replied "Ohhh there is only one left".

Another happy customer.

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That Big R

Portmarnock on a Friday afternoon and a kinda toughie party - thousands of 8 year old boys......but I had them under control.

One bespectacled youngster insisted he knew how each magic trick worked. So I let him to proceed to tell us all how the tricks worked. I could see his mind ticking over as he explained the process. Full marks for effort but he was wrong each time, because magic is..................well magic :)

During balloon time he wanted a few unmade blown up balloons so that he could make things. Again, in fairness he did a great job! I was impressed so I told him that I knew that he would be an engineer when he grows up.

"An engineer! My dads an engineer!" he said while walking away. "Well, he was an engineer, he drives a taxi now!"

Oh well.

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The Power of Childrens TV

I was in Tobercurry Co. Sligo around the time of the big snow - no travel problems for your intrepid entertainer. The party was going well and the magic show was over so it was balloon time during the meal!

A 9 year old boy dropped a bit of his pizza on the floor, so I asked him "Why did you drop the pizza?". And as quick as a gnat he replied,

"Do you want you want to know why Ciaran dropped the pizza, well tune back in after the break!"

Huh!

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Punch and Judy and The Man

In the days before the single puppeteer operation, RR and myself were giving our P&J show some mighty welly. The kids were screaming and yelling and having a ball and we were pushing our panto experience and it was all great fun.

Just as the Copper was about to nick Robbie the Robber - a most irate male adult stuck his head over the playboard, looked down at us and cried out "Would you EVER stop this INFERNAL racket!"

I looked at RR "Jaysus, were not that crap are we?"

The irate adult continued, "I’m trying to have a nice peaceful afternoon in my own garden and I am unable to because of all this noise!!" Ohhh, he lived in one of the posh houses that bordered the Old Belvedere Rugby grounds.

Now as we were not thinking straight, I answered (in Robbie the Robbers voice - with the puppet turning to look at him) "Ehhhhhh, I tink you better talk to de boss - he’s around the back somewhere…I tink!"

"I’m staying right here, until someone comes to talk to me". said the man, Robbie replied "Ehhhh OK - he’ll be witcha-inna-minnit"

So, for the next few minutes - Mr Irate stood in front of the booth, the kids looking at him and both puppets staying on stage…saying nothing….BUT, "kept looking at their watches", "scratching their heads" and were eventually brave enough to start "yawning"!

These surreal few moments eventually passed, Mr Irate moved off the with boss with both puppets stretching the necks following the man as he dissapeared!

"Is he gone, boys and girls" said Robbie, "Yes, he is" sez the boys and girls

Me and RR looked at each other…………………."Oh no he’s not" said the puppets!!!!!

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Chaggaboogie

The other day my wonderful 5yo boy bounced into the room, wiggled his bum at me and said "CHAGGABOOOOOOOOOOOOGIEEEE"

"Huh?" I said

I Googled "Chaggaboogie" (as you would) and had returned "Your search - "Chaggaboogie" - did not match any documents". The genius had invented a new word.

I now own this word (dont tell him) and use it in my magic shows when Abracadabra just isn’t doing it for me. I have submitted this word to the New Collins dictionary.

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Note: I see its starting to work its way into Google now :)

Couch Suprise!

During his early years, one of me clown friends (sounds better than saying "one of me friends who is a clown") was setting up for his party. A great idea came upon him, "I know what! I’ll hide in behind the couch and when the children come into the room - I’ll pop up and say ‘Suprise’…it’ll be great"

He hid, he popped up and he said "Surprise"!

He frightened the lard out of all the kids.

He spent the next 90 minutes outside the front room - in the hall making balloon models and then handing them into the granny who was sitting in her armchair just on the other side of the door.

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Humpty Dumpty and the plastic Surgeon

This is an old one, but many years ago we were part  of a bigger show hosted by The Guinness Brewery in The Iveagh Grounds - it was a special for the locals!

The entertainer on before us was dressed in an immaculate flat Humpty Costume and asked the kids "Does anyone know what happened to me when I fell off the wall?" The kids lashed their hands up with a flourish of popcorn and crisps "Humpty! Humpty! I knows…I’ll tell ya", so Humpty gave one the mike,

 "Ya broke" he said "Eggsactly" said Humpty "and do you know how I got back together again? I was fixed by a plastic surgeon…now does anyone know what a plastic surgeon is?"

Another lash up of hands, popcorn and crisps "Humpty! Humpty! I knows…I’ll tell ya", so Humpty called a 6yo up on the stage. "Tell me, whats a plastic surgeon?"

She proudly announced "A Plastic Surgeon is a guy who made Pamela Anderson’s t*ts bigger"

That was the end of his act. We were on next and to this day, I have no idea what our act was all about!

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