Tricks with Your Head: Hilarious Magic Tricks and Stunts to Disgust and Delight

by Mac King and Mark Levy

Book Overview

"Mac King is a god." --Penn and Teller Tricks with Your Head is the world's greatest (and only) collection of hilarious, mystifying, and sometimes repulsive magic tricks that you can perform with your... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0609805916
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Crown
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.2"

Customer Reviews

Pure Genius!!!

This book is a must for anyone that has any social fiber in them. Have you ever wished you had some great little gag to break the ice at a party? How about having the perfect anecdote to get the attention of that person across the bar? This book has page after page of hilarious gags and tricks you can perform with very little skill or preperation. Even if you never perform a single one of this stunts outside the comfort of your own home, the laughs you will enjoy while reading this book are well worth the price.

Exceeded all expectations

These are not only simple kiddie tomfoolery tricks. There are easily 20 stunts/tricks worth the price of the book. They can be incorporated into various situations. The reactions youll get are from shreiks of horror( the eye sreamer) till astounded laughter (eg headless wonder). I performed 90% of the material on my poor wife yesterday. All brought the desired reaction (which even amazed me). The material can be incorporated into all routines, for different ages and even into a professional magicians repertoire. The benign looking booking is packed with show stopper after show stopper. In all there are about 50 tricks, stunts etc. They can win you friends or lose you friends. Use them wisely. Penn and Teller are right about Mac King. In fact this book is too good to be revealed to the general public. I have a huge range of magic books, much more expensive than this, and for sheer reaction (shocked, disgusted, astonished, amused), this matches the very best. OK OK . I am not Mac Kings relative, agent or friend, but a grateful amateur magician.

Funny to read, even funnier to do!

I've seen Mac's great and funny show at Harrah's in Las Vegas and will never forget him making his head disappear. It was so totally unexpected, it was just hilarious. With this book you can learn to make your own head disappear too, along with a couple dozen other great tricks, stunts and gags that take minimal skill and practice. Most of them do contain a similar unexpected, bizzarre twist that will make you laugh out loud just by imagining yourself performing them. This is a funny, funny book. I'm going to be giving a lot of them at Christmas!

Better Than Expected

Not only are the "Head Tricks" in this book GREAT, the comedy way it which the material is written is outstanding. Even if people have no interest in performing the wonderful, way-out-whacky ideas, they will enjoy reading the book. The most entertaining, laugh-out-loud, "teaching book" I've ever read. Also, adding to the quality of this book are the cartoons. They make the explanations easy to understand and at the same time make you laugh ever harder. This book should be required reading for all comedy writing courses.

Hilarious

I was completely surprised at how hilarious this is book is to read. I thought it might simply be a 'how-to' book for learning funny magic tricks, but I read the whole thing through at one sitting just because the writing style is so entertaining. I don't mean to dismiss the tricks, they too are really wonderful. And surprisingly easy to do. My favorites are 'The Headless Wonder' (it looks like your head is gone), 'Smack' (you get to hit your friend in the face only to have them laugh about it), and 'The Wonderful Telephone Trick.' Actually 'The Wondeful Telephone Trick' is the reason I bought this book in the first place. I heard Mac King demonstrate it on a local radio show. I have now bought 3 more copies of this book as gifts for my niece and nephews, and they all loved it (they're 17, 12, and 9 years old). But it's not just for kids (I'm 32 years old myself). If you like fooling your family and friends or just playing goofy practical jokes I think you'll find many great things in this book.