If You Love Something ...
Put It Back Where You Got It.
The finale of my show involves lifting the watches of 4 volunteers I use to hold up my big unicycle and then enrolling them into a synchronized routine where they finally realize their watches are missing. (See this month's video of this routine.)
Years ago I had this bright idea for a new routine where I would lift a volunteers wallet without them knowing, get their name, address and birthdate from their ID, and pretend to psychically divine this information. The one and only time I actually tried this it worked, but I stopped after that. Here's why.
I was appearing at one of North America's premier resort areas performing outdoor shows in the village area to summer tourists. I had a very large crowd gathered by the end of this particular show and I was practically giddy that I had actually managed to lift one of my volunteers' wallets. I stood in front of him facing the audience and took out the wallet with my back to the man so that I could let the audience in on the joke while I gathered the information I needed from the man's ID to continue with the next phase of the bit.
I pulled the man's wallet out of my pocket and held it carefully shielded from his view in front of me. As I flipped it open the first thing that I and the rest of the crowd saw, glinting in the sunlight in its full authority and glory, was a shiny gold detective's badge. Yes, I had stolen the wallet of an undercover plain clothes cop.
What followed may have been one of the only times in history that a pick pocket has nervously and frantically used his skills of stealth and misdirection to replace stolen property in due haste, rather than make off with it. My audience had a blast, I was a nervous wreck, and unless somebody from that crowd who knew him ever let him in on it, the cop was none the wiser.Don't miss this month's
Hidden Camera Video Clip
of The World's Funniest Waiter in action.
Rick Lewis has been entertaining and inspiring audiences for the last 30 years. The success of The World's Funniest Waiter over the years is based on clean, interactive comedy and high-level circus skills.
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