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Published on: 3/13/2002
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On Thursday 24th of October, yummy magician Alistair Cook rocked up to the MKP offices for a Live Web Chat.Alistair, who is the star of channel 5's Monkey Magic, wowed us with tricks when he wasn't chatting away with you lot.Check out what happened...
moderatorHi everybody!Welcome to the Alistair Cook web chat!Alistair's a magician and his new show Monkey Magic is coming to channel 5 soon.Who has a question?
binkieAre you a member of the Magic Circle?
AlistairYes Iam.I'm an associate of the inner circle with a silver star.But to be honest I don't know what that all means and I'm a magician
dannenjenHow did you become a magician?
AlistairOhh I started when I was about thirteen and was very frusttrated by seeing magic on telly and not knowing how to do it.So I bought literally hundreds of books and practised in front of a mirror until I got the hang of it.
Guestdid david copperfield really make the satue of liberty disappear? i dont believe that for a minute
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AlistairDavid Blaine is very cool and I'm not surprised he's going out with someone as beautiful as her.
slunkywot is the monkey magic show about?
AlistairMonkey Magic is magic performed in the strangest places with the strangest objects by a team of four magicians: Pete McCahon, Jonathan Goodwin and Pete Firman.Its nothing like you've seen before and basically its got surreal edge like performing magic naked magic under water, dangerous magic, magicians at war.The show is bit like a mixture of trigger happy tv and jackass with magic thrown in performed in a street magic style.
Guestcan you show us a trick on the cam?!
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AlistairI don't like them that much but to be honest they usually make up fake secrets and reveal them as the real methods of the tricks.But to be honest they just made up the secrets tofool the public even more. so they aren't really a problem/
osbournehave you ever used magic to win a card game for money?
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AlistairYes regrettably at school.All my friends banned me from playing three card brag when everyone kept winnig like 50p and I kept winng a tenner.They soon caught on tomy scams but never saw how I diid it.But cheating at cards is [pretty cool.
BigDaddyKelwhatz ur favourit trick?
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AlistairI like lots of different tricks but my current favourite is called fickle nickle and is in the first episode of Monlkey Magic.Basically a coin completely dissapppears then reappers.Its the simplest trrck in the world but I not wearing anything so there was nowhere the coin vanish to
sarahwhat has been your biggest audience?
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Alistairprobebly other tv spots.But for live audiences about 600.However in my live shows I like to do magic like David Bliane to only small audiences of maybe 5 to 10 people.The closer people are the motre amazing the magic