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Comedian Dennis Hemphill as Elliot “The Hawk,” magician extraordinaire.
Thanks to YouTuber hummpy
Jack Shalom
Musings, Memories, and Magic
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Comedian Dennis Hemphill as Elliot “The Hawk,” magician extraordinaire.
Thanks to YouTuber hummpy
I couldn’t figure out why everyone was laughing. I must be missing something??? obviously!!
It’s a bit of an in joke. The performer is not really a magician; he’s a comedian who’s satirizing a really awful kind of overenthusiastic magician performing a pretty ubiquitous card trick called “Sam the Bellhop,” which can be excruciating to watch if done poorly. You can see a much more competent performance of that trick here:
https://youtu.be/TQ-Z5G-lRjc