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" Alan Funt was the first hidden-camera magician. It was the playful nature of the way he worked that really inspired me. A lot of prank shows and hidden-camera shows can be a little mean-spirited. Funt was never like that. "
Inspired
Like
Me
" A lot of people have experimented with hidden cameras and magic before. What I do, which I think is different from any other style of prank or hidden camera, is that it's all fun. It's back to that kind of fun that 'Candid Camera' was. It's not mean-spirited at all. It's a joyful kind of play with people. "
People
Fun
Magic
" David Blaine, I think, was the first TV magician to really turn the camera around and make it about the spectator's experience. That's really what magic is all about. "
Camera
Experience
Magic
" Growing up, I loved magic, I loved acting, I loved comedy. I really didn't know what direction I was going. I was trying a whole bunch of stuff. "
Loved
Direction
Growing Up
" I am a hopeless mamma's boy. "
Boy
Am
Hopeless
" I don't want to be 'the magician'; I want to be an innocent bystander along with the magical moment. "
Innocent
Magical
Moment
" I first started doing hidden-camera segments on 'The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.' He was the coolest guy in the world to work for because he understands the creative process, and he had total trust. And he just let me make up whatever I wanted; I experimented and tried and played. We had a lot of fun over there. "
Trust
World
Work
" I found that if I stack the moments correctly, people will believe in the most outrageous things. "
Moments
Believe
People
" I have heard I look like the guy from 'The Carbonaro Effect.' "
Look
Effect
Guy
" I'll order anything that has the word 'fig' or 'crusted' in the menu description. "
Order
Menu
Fig
" I love acting on television and look forward to more roles, for sure. And I also love and need to perform live shows. "
Need
Love
Look
" I'm doing everything I can to take the magician out of the equation of magic. "
I Can
Doing
Everything
" I might be 'Candid Camera's number one fan. "
Fan
Camera
Might
" I say 'incantation' a lot, when what I really mean 'incarnation.' It's a programmed mistake. "
Say
Really
Mistake
" It's very exciting to take magic into a new direction, whereas a lot of times magic comes from a place of sort of ego, like, 'Look what I can do that you can't do.' It kind of comes across that way a lot, and you're always trying to challenge the magician; you're always trying to figure out how the magician is doing it. "
Place
Challenge
Magic
" I've always performed magic as a kid. "
Performed
Magic
Kid
" I was certain when I was about 10 years old that I was going to be a special effects artist or a make-up man. I loved that stuff and pursued it for quite some time, actually. "
Old
Time
Loved
" I went to NYU completely with the idea I wanted to be the next David Copperfield. "
Next
Idea
David
" Magic is like special effects live, and I love to perform, so it sounded like doing magic tricks were a good way to entertain people. "
Doing
Good
Live
" Magic is really performing special effects live. "
Live
Special
Really
" My goal is to get people to really believe that the impossible is real, and not that I'm responsible for it. I want them to believe that they're having the most unusual, magical and bizarre days of their lives. "
Goal
Believe
Impossible
" My goal was becoming the next David Copperfield. I learned how to be a performer by emulating him as a kid - his formula of just talking to people onstage, being free to improvise, being charming and witty with a crowd, together with great, beautiful magic. "
Together
People
Great
" People are really willing to believe in impossible things, which is really beautiful. "
Impossible
People
Believe
" The goal is to really blur the line. Can you perform a magic trick in a way that someone doesn't think it's a magic trick but is something amazing they haven't seen before? Then they have to wrestle with reality. "
Blur
Reality
Think
" There's magic all around us: Our smartphones are magical, 3-D printers are magical. So I feel that as a magician, if I can pull off something that seems real and convincing enough that I can explain why it's happening and have people believe it, it really is fascinating. And funny. "
Believe
Enough
Magic
" When you're learning how to do magic, the first rule is 'never reveal a secret.' In a way, by telling someone I'm a magician, it kind of gives away the best secret of all... How interesting to take the magician out of the equation of a magic show. "
Learning
Magic
You
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