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Derren Brown is the absolute best. =)

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I'd say pick up the book, it's a pretty good read. If it counts for anything, when I watched it the first time, I recognized it as a Derren Brown bit, and was able to get the right answer every single time.

Edit: Er, to clarify I have no idea how he does the stuff written down on the bill; the same way I have no idea how Derren does that bit. He does keep some secrets to himself. Imo, his best acts are when he tells us how the trick is going to work, does the trick, and we still have no idea how it worked. =)

Yeah, but Derren Brown also said "the wisdom of crowds" can predict lottery numbers.

I've no idea how they do it and I haven't read Derren's book, but I'd take anything his, and anybody else who make a living off not revealing their secrets, explanations with a pinch of salt.

ps. Is Fallon drunk or is he still on strong painkillers for that finger?

No Derren Brown tags available. It's pretty much the same. If you read Derren's book, it's sort of nlp and it sort of isn't. He's just looking for a reaction to one of the options, he'll give away tells for sure, most of us do.

Long and short is, NLP is that everyone gives the exact same tells for certain things, when in reality we all give tells, but they're our own personal one. You just have to see what tells the person gives away.

I hope that mini Derren Brown fanboy rant helped a bit. =)

The Derren Brown video he mentions here: http://youtu.be/LksVbHxLRvY (embedding disabled by request).

Derren Brown has publicly stated something to effect of his goal is to blur the line between what is possible and what has been staged. I forget the exact quote, but when I read it certainly explained some of his more 'extreme' mental 'tricks'. In particular his trick of taking a 'random' crowd and instantly converting them to some religious belief, and taking random normal people and very quickly talking them into performing an armed robbery in short order. Sorry, but using plants in the audience is well enough for me in most magic tricks. When the SOLE magic trick though is controlling or reading the audience member's mind using plants isn't a 'trick' anymore. It's just lying and I no longer count that as interesting or at all impressive.

If believing a "magician" isn't lying to you helps you enjoy the show better then I'm not here to stop you. Enjoy!

Unfortunately, when you look at modern "magicians" these days like Criss Angel, Derren Brown, Dynamo etc .. yes, they all actually do have stooges planted, and all of what is presented in their filmed shows is heavily edited from what you see in person.

And I didn't say everyone was in on it. A few choice stooges in the audience who conveniently had guys with mics standing right behind them. These kinds of performances (albeit without the mics) have been performed this exact same way for as long as magic has existed.

Love Derren Brown. This was by far the tamest of anything I've ever seen of his. (By that I mean lacking any real excitement. I kept waiting for something big.)

I didn't care about the fake surgery stuff. Lame, but just making a point about how fake it is and trying to have something to excite the overly sensitive. Whatevs.

I imagine the fake contacting dead relatives thing was maybe using things like a lot of YouTubers have done and just searched for people on social media who share their profile publicly. Easy enough to find people who are tweeting/facebooking/instagramming about going to a Derren Brown show then searching through their past posts to dig up good dirt about people who passed. If that's not along the lines of what he did, then I'd really like to hear some possible alternate methods.

Really no idea about how he did the invisible "aeroplane" trick.

Loved the finale and really have no clue how that was done either.

And if he didn't somehow force the dice, either he really did memorize those books with his dickbrain (I bet the boys in school gave him that name for a different reason - teehee) or the guy was a stooge and lying about what he was reading. Why wasn't there a camera there to show what he was seeing in the books?

Pre-set Rubik's cubes? Whe didn't we get a look at them before he "solved" it and while solving it, why was his back away from the audience and cameras?

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No need to feel cynical. He's up front about his use of manipulation.

Derren Brown's performance is brilliant and after watching you'll feel very relaxed and calm. Sleepy in fact. Nothing to worry about. Watch the video. Watch it now.

Derren Brown is a genius...and handsome.
I want to meet him one day and give him money and have sex with him? WTF!

Waaaaaait....

For those of you interested, Derren Brown did pretty much the same thing a couple of times, and printed the letter it in his book 'Tricks of the Mind'. He also explained some of the tricks used in the letter to make people feel it was particularly personal to them.

Interesting reading.

That's my point. The brain channel isn't about you thinking a dog is amazing for thinking of something. There's a description of the channel, by the channel owner, which explains what the channel is for and when you should invoke it:

http://videosift.com/brain

"From the molecular biology of neurons to theories of consciousness, the Mind and Brain channel is devoted to workings of the brain and its emergent mind. All videos in this channel offer some insight into the workings of brains (organic or synthetic). Videos of trippy optical illusions and Derren Brown mind tricks are generally not acceptable - unless, of course, they contain some explanation of how the brain is being manipulated to produce the demonstrated results."

"The dog was smart to use its brain of doing that" doesn't fit. The same way so many of your channel assignments don't fit.

I'm sorry, but you really do need to look at what the channels are for because honestly you're just making a mess of the site with your constant throwing channel assignments out to the point where their meaning is lost.

Granted, some channels don't have good descriptions (which is why you tag every god damn thing that has a car in the background with wheels), but still, I hope you understand what I mean.