SPOILER ALERT: In this episode we joined forces with comedian, musician and nutter Ade Edmondson. Ade was very interested to learn the secrets behind our craft and would laugh manically each time we taught him the deceptions he would be performing. He was great to work with, especially as he spent a lot of his early career as part of a double act, and so understood perfectly the dynamics that we wanted to achieve.
He really got into smashing the watches, so much in fact that, with the aid of a sledgehammer, he managed to embed a watch into the wooden floor of Stage D at Pinewood Studios. If the watch isn’t still there now, there will certainly be a watch-shaped hole where it was.
The car trick was fun to perform mainly from an historical point of view. Those of you who know your magical history will understand why we got a kick out of that particular illusion and along the way we learned exactly why hardly anybody does it!
TV sets are always so different to work on than stages. You can never really get a true sense of the space from looking at the cardboard mock-up before the set is built. I remember visualising doing the ‘x-ray machine’ on set just from looking at the little cardboard model and realised how different my visualisation was when we finally did it for real.
Despite Chris Korn making a car fly and producing a helicopter, he faced the forfeit, consequently having a motorbike drive over him and Amanda Byram. Seated beside me on ‘the throne’, Peter Jones was clearly very pleased that he wasn’t the one lying on a bed of nails. He told me it was something he “had no intention of trying”. Ade, however, wanted Chris and Amanda to suffer, even calling out “that’s cheating” when they donned the protective gear on their arms… how very friendly!
Next week we try and flog “The Digi-Cloth” and the “Achilles 3000″ with Stephen K. Amos.
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Clare Uden Jan 8 2011 - 10:24 pm
Loved this weeks show,amazing & funny
Rhiannon Jan 8 2011 - 10:54 pm
This weeks show was amazing
i love you 2 u do my kind of magic lol
Sarah Jan 8 2011 - 11:19 pm
Hi guys… the mobile phone in the stomach trick is definitely my favourite
and the demon possessed tongue… will you be doing any more of your famous tricks on the show? x
Felicity Jan 9 2011 - 1:21 am
Ade just made you two worse
Glad you kept the blood in the x ray trick, I was worried they would make you leave it out. Keep up that dark humor you do oh so well 
Wes Jan 9 2011 - 1:39 am
B&S :
Absolutely positively brilliant tonight! You made the most creative presentation of the interlude i have ever seen and made it even more creative (the shake instead of the wallet). I missed Stuart taking her shirt off, though. LOL
Congratulations!
Kyra H Jan 9 2011 - 8:11 am
Again you guys were really awesome. loved all the tricks. looking forward to next saturdays show!
xx
Elizabeth Jan 9 2011 - 8:19 am
Like everyone else here, loved it. There is a certain excitement knowing that I have seen some of the tricks live! I think you guys should have won, you made a horse appear and did 2 tricks in one section, unlike Luis (although he was good, I’m not taking that away from him!) And Ade was the perfect fit with you!
laura elliott Jan 9 2011 - 9:56 am
loved you two and ade last nite.
Naoise Standing Jan 9 2011 - 3:48 pm
loved you guys last night lol when magicians finishes im gonna miss you :’(
Amy May 1 2011 - 9:37 pm
I love the magicians, b&s Amazing- fab