Derren Brown
is a British illusionist, mentalist, trickster, hypnotist, painter, writer, and sceptic.
Derren Brown: Infamous, Channel 4 - TV review: Who knows how he does it
Brown's mission – he says – is always to disillusion through
illusion, to debunk through bunkum. During this recorded tour date at
the Grand Theatre, Leeds, he performed an updated version of the
sawing-a-woman-in-half trick to illustrate his disdain for homeopathy.
He also conducted several rounds of "psychic" demonstrations, all the time insisting that no such thing is possible. "[Your grandmother] isn't telling me anything, you understand?" he said to one audience member mid-reading "I'm making this up, I'm lying to you..." He then went on to correctly guess Granny's name, her grandson's age when she died and a very specific family story about that time she was bitten by a monkey in Gibraltar.
Did Derren Google every audience member before the gig? Was he reading their micro-expressions? Or are monkey attacks on the elderly just more common that you might suppose?
Who knows how he does it, but guessing is half the fun.(source:independent)
He also conducted several rounds of "psychic" demonstrations, all the time insisting that no such thing is possible. "[Your grandmother] isn't telling me anything, you understand?" he said to one audience member mid-reading "I'm making this up, I'm lying to you..." He then went on to correctly guess Granny's name, her grandson's age when she died and a very specific family story about that time she was bitten by a monkey in Gibraltar.
Did Derren Google every audience member before the gig? Was he reading their micro-expressions? Or are monkey attacks on the elderly just more common that you might suppose?
Who knows how he does it, but guessing is half the fun.(source:independent)
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