Derren is also a great actor, people don’t realise that he has to pretend to think about things when he already knows the answer that he suggested to them earlier
you have to be like that and do that if you are performing... not just him. Hes just finest in acting, but you need acting for doing this magic tricks and illusions. Most of them ARE actors on the side.
It goes beyond just being a great actor, he also has a phenomenal memory. He's not lying when he says he's not wearing an earpiece, there's nobody feeding him information; for the most part he's rattling off information he memorised just prior to coming out on stage, either before the show or during the interval, something he had to do literally hundreds of nights in a row for this particular show, a different set of "predictions" every night over the entire run. That's an amazing skill, on top of his other abilities. He really is the greatest showman of our generation, his spin on what is, at the end of the day, very common mentalism techniques is just sublime.
@@angelaglanville9377 What are you smoking? He showed two people one ear and another two people the other. He also clearly said it wouldn't matter if he in fact did wear an ear-piece.
Derren: **actually teleports and moves things with his mind, lights on fire then goes invisible** Also Derren: “remember this is a lie I’m not doing anything abnormal here”
Myth Tree It’s like when you’re a kid and you say I just ran to the moon and back but I was so fast you didn’t even see it. And other kids will believe it
@@lacari0805yeah I used to do street magic and it's an amazing feeling. Seeing the look of amazement. And the funny thing is that you're doing it so fast that you can't even see how you did it. So how could they. Even cameras couldn't catch what's happening right in front of them. Something special about magic. Good magic I believe can stand up too all but the most strongest tests. If it requires the audience to con themselves it's not good magic. They should be genuinely befuddled.
@@shanescott5847 I'm a layman in magic here, so please be forgiving in your answer :p But isn't the whole point of magic, in general, to depend on the human brains' fallibility and our tendency to find patterns and answers, sometimes even when there aren't any good answers besides "I don't know"? I'd say that pretty much in line with "the audience conning itself".
Went to see his Svengali show in Edinburgh a few years bk. afterwards we all agreed it was great and when asked what our fav part was not one of us could remember anything we had just seen. It took a few days before bits and pieces began to return of the show.. man is a wizard!
-Missy- i recon he did some suggestive conditioning subtly throughout the show. Only explanation for it. The experience was so great my friend went and became a magician 😄 the magic marine i believe he is called
-Missy- totally recommend it. He’s actually really good and has become friends with A list celebs & appeared in loads of tv and movies. I hear he is killed by gerald butler in the new angel has fallen movie 😅
when he did the psychic reading in dublin he had to stop after a young woman burst out crying when he was describing her(i want to say) grandfather. it was quite touching
@@mircea3006 some people here(india) can do the same thing. they can tell you what's in your mind. but, unlike him, they don't hide the fact that they seek devil's help. its nothing scientific
@@syedadil1012 Hi, I think you have it the wrong way around. In India you have performers who pretend to be devil magicians and use psychology and science to get their effects. Like the 'devil magician' who gets into 'boiling' water which is pretty obviously dry ice scattered on room temperature water.
Don't me wrong, Derren is brilliant & I'm a huge fan, but to call him - without argument - the greatest performer of our lifetime? Its a bit over the top.
The opening speech he did was so profound it made me think of my life and how others perceived it and the realisation that really other people really don't care about me and what goes on in my life and likewise I really don't care about there's either. I want good things for them and for them to be happy but really the stuff going on in their lives is pretty much the same as mine maybe with exception of the cancer I'm fighting. I feel different now, I feel that I don't have to wear a metaphorical mask when I'm hanging out with friends or bump into someone I know. I can just be myself because really the person I talk to doesn't really care anyway. With that notion in my mind I feel lighter and free to get on with my life without worrying about what other people think about me.
Well but you 'd worry enough about what they think when their thoughts about you make them harm you and threaten your life. Ppl are so unaware what they are saying: It is only true a so long as things are OK and you are strong enough to self-protect and as long as bad things don't happen.
@@PKWeaver74 thanks Phillip, I heard about his new book but I haven't had a chance to read it yet but if it helped you then I will definitely make time to read it.
@@davidfalconer9281 thank you David, that's very kind of you. You took the time out of your life to actually think about me and send your message and that kindness isn't lost on me and very much appreciated.
Using the "random" dice is a clever gimmik. Though it is random it restricts what pages can be selected. No page containing a digit 0 or 7,8,9. so for example pages 1 to 99 actually is limited to only 36 pages not 99, so he does not need to memorise 100%
I was a volunteer on one of these shows involved in the psychic half time section. I can absolutely vouch that I was not a stooge! I was actually hoping my name would not be called out (it is bad enough just being there in front of the audience). But it was and what followed to this day I cannot fully comprehend. Derren made no pretence that he possessed any psychic powers and actually made a point of highligting that he didn't! So I could see how the trick was done and it relied upon his ability to memorise a great many things in a finite amount of time. That said I cannot explain why I said exactly what I did not want to say - my mind was a blank apart from those exact words that I did not want to say! When you are pressured for an answer but there is literally nothing else the result is inevitable! I spent a couple of hours in the Cambridge pub after talking to other audience members and many years since thinking about this. It has made me think long and hard about our own perceptions of life and just how easily that perception can be altered in a blink - or a show.
Derren said "The man I am on stage is divorced from who I am in real life. When I am performing, being that controlling person, that is not me. I'm actually fairly quiet".
Such an intelligent brain! Unfortunately I usually can’t see images in my head unless I’m sleeping. It blew my mind learning other people could see things easily !
Hmm it blows my mind that people can't. I can very easily conjure any image in my head but the clarity of it varies. There does seem to be distinction between imagistic thought and semantic thought, which makes sense because I rarely think in words and when I do it's very vague and not explicitly coherent
Absolutely brilliant. All smoke and mirrors and psychology. I like that he debunks all the "mojo" stuff in all its forms. Just 'cos you can't do it doesn't mean it isn't just a clever bit of trickery. I also like it that he uses Philip Glass. The Mentalist and the Minimalist together on stage. :)
What people don't realise is: He isn't trying to convince you what he's doing is real, he's trying to make you see that you will continue to deny that it is real, even when he tells you it isn't real. That as human beings we will always defy information we are given, even when it's already our belief already. No part of this act is real, nor does he claim it is.
He even says at the start of the show that he was sent to NLP nutcases to "cure" him of his gayness, and realised that NLP was BS. Then he proceeds to pretend to be using NLP, among other such nonsense, for an hour, and people think there's something to it. At least he's more honest about it now than he was when he first got big, and seemed determined to make people think that he was using phychological skills and body language and NLP and subliminal suggestion and all that bullshit
Well the point is not if it's real or not, as he admits it's not. The point is, how is the trick performed? If it's simply actors payed to say what he wants, which is the most likely scenario, that's pretty lame. If not, that would be very interesting.
Derren is quite amazing. By telling us all the things he is not, he distracts from what he is, a conjurer, and that is all. Many of his tricks are very old, and very well know techniques. I've seen him do a routine on television, using a gimmick anyone can buy for $2 in any magic shop. This is his genius, and why he blows minds wherever he goes.
frott scost I have already taught it to three, and they regularly perform the same trick. Derren is all about presentation, and the double bluff of him telling you how it’s done. Incidentally I taught those people as I refined the gimmick a little bit to improve it.
I was going to say that I can't imagine what the world must be like for people like you but I think I can imagine it. I remember thinking that things were real when they were actually just tv commercials or performances, or stories that people told me with emotion and emphasis. But that was when I was a child! It breaks my heart to think of how many stupid people there are in the world and how terribly vulnerable to exploitation they are. I no longer think there is any way to fix it. People are stupid and they just can't see that they are. Please don't be convinced by me. I convinced someone once that they were stupid and it caused them to be humiliated. I felt like I'd vandalized a person's self respect. I don't want to do that again but if you don't know how a magic trick was done, don't claim that you know it was accomplished by means other than simple tricks.
@@MarkLucasProductions can you read? I said trick,look it up,it doesn't have anything to do with believing it's real. You're condescending and quite frankly you apparently don't comprehend English. I was saying most ppl don't know how he does his tricks or the average person would do it. There are many ways of accomplishing the many affects in many different shows and I bet the majority of the public don't know how it's done,including you unless you're a magician.
There's knowing how, and there's being able. Even if I knew every step of his act, I will never be close to the level of showmanship. His career came together around his particular skills and interests. It would be very odd indeed if someone else could perform exactly the same tricks as well as he does.
@@w_szon3115 No. Derren Brown is amazing for a lot of reasons, but he doesn't have supernatural insight. (Or any supernatural abilities that other people don't have) What is special about him is he is extremely creative, more so than most other people alive. And I'm not going to tell you I know how he did that trick. But I can think of possible ways to do it. Almost everything you see Derren Brown do, over 90% of the world's population could do it as well if he were to tell them the exact method and help them practice. There is no form of psychology that would allow you to guess or intuit that somebody got bit by a monkey in Gibralter. I realize he does all kinds of real amazing psychological tricks in a lot of his performances, but that was too spot on. My best guess is that came from some sort of pre-show work, possibly well before the show. But I honestly don't know. Don't have a clue. I'm willing to stretch my belief that he could actually have a crazy memory, and that it was a memory trick (like having people fill out a survey when they buy their ticket), though I doubt it. But I'm not at all willing to believe he can look at a person and intuit that they got bit by a monkey in gibralter, or anything else that specific. He would be able to win James Randi's million dollar prize if he had that ability, and winning that would make anybody so notorious; there is no way Derren Brown would turn that down.
@@TheDobstopper When Derren decides to retire, I hope he does one last tour teaching audiences a quarter to a third of his techniques, including the very best one but not the next two. (not that specific; just an example) By teaching only a fraction, other people in a similar line of work will have to be more imaginative by an achievable amount. Edit: or a Master Class instead of a tour
Possibly done by researching some of the people attending or recording conversations in the lobby. You could find this information easily if it’s on their Facebook profile for example. Commonly done by ‘psychics’ and exposed by derren before now... so I’d bet that’s a technique he uses often.
There are magnets under the bowls for the dice, so the number/trick is pre determined, the rice grains were already in his hand despite what he says when he grabs them out the bowl...he did something similar on James Corden show where it is much more obvious.
1:04:31 Suspect how his right hand was out of sight, and close to his sides. 1:04:43 Pretty sure he was emptying the 22 grains of rice from a thumb tip (a fake thumb sleeve magicians use to hide small items inside). But to even predict that the 2 people at the end would have rolled 2 & 2 is insane.
Some of you are a bit rude by calling him a scam artist. It is just entertainment. It is fun because it is a play on human fantasy. It is staged and well staged. Just have fun with it. That is all it is there for.
well said. i say don't watch it if your gona moan i think derren is an amazing person nd hate when people call him out like you said its only for entertainment purposes
he is seeking help of satan/muwakkil and hiding this fact in name of science. many people, sadhus, Molvis here (in india) can do it. its nothing scientific.
Psychic reading is done every day by so called "mediums" and "psychics" in their stage shows and online. It is an act, which can be done by anyone with training.
You would’ve chosen what he wanted you to choose😂 that’s what he does you can say “I would’ve chosen” but odds are you’d choose exactly what he wanted you too
He has a massive wire that connects to just above his ear, sound can travel through your skull or bone, so just because he says he hasn't got an ear piece makes no difference, he is obviously being fed information.
@@redandwhitewizard77 I'm not sure where in the show he would actually 'need' to be fed audio information but your assertion that "he clearly shows that it isn't an earpiece" is ridiculous.
It's not an impressive coincidence. Many people live along many bus routs. Since Derren was going to name 'some' bus rout, a significant proportion of all of the people who lived along whatever bus rout he was going to name would have seen this show. When they saw it they would think wow, what a coincidence! It's a coincidence for 'you' just as it is a coincidence for everyone who wins the lottery each week.
@@MarkLucasProductions Not quite a coincidence as such. The bus route chosen was very close to where he grew up which is where I live. He actually went to a school 5 minutes away from mine. The only coincidence here is that I live in the same area that he grew up
I think the speaking to the dead bit was as simple as this. The team looked up the audience on Facebook, and selected people who had info on their Facebook which would make it look like the dead is coming through. This day and age everyone shares their whole lives on social media. It wouldn’t be hard to find good information from a few people in such a big audience
Absolutely insane! Also I could've sworn the song at 19:20 was from Battlestar, but now I'm unsure Edit: it is in Battlestar! But it's not a song made directly for the show. Metamorphosis One by Philip Glass
44:08 Is that guy in the background, in the red top, the guy who can remember the order of cards in an entire pack of cards. I've seen him b4. Strange to see him, not only in that selected group of people on stage, but also in the background as the camera, and Derren focuses on the person in front.
He is so good, loved his shows since 1st show years ago when did the fall asleep answering telephone trick, trick of mind, but how the F he got that telephone number is just insane, random number from a random guy added to a random bus route is just inexplicable to me
If you don't want the trick spoiled, don't read ahead. ... ... ... Any time a mentalist or a magician asks someone to write something down on a piece of paper or a board, you can be 100% certain they're using a gimmicked pen that looks like an ordinary pen but which transmits everything you write to a remote receiver. There are dozens of them available from all sorts of magic suppliers. From there it should be obvious how a lot of Derren's stage magic works.
So it was specifically said there was no backround research done. So how can he guess the monkey bite? Any way of getting the info beforehand is backround research.
Pens that people use to write stuff are equiped with video cams. He always takes the pens back. The team transmits what's written back to him, perhaps via bone conduction.
Ray Perry I was lucky enough to meet him once after one of his shows and he is such a charming, likeable person. I'm amazed by how he understands the human mind!
Ray Perry yeah honestly he is, very polite and friendly and not a single ounce of arrogance or pretentiousness. Very humble. I really wish more people were like him but I'm a huge fan. I'd love him to do more stage shows!
36:12 he tells the kid the box is empty then makes the kid hypnotize himself and then shows the kid the empty box 3000 people have been looking at the whole time 😂 I wonder if he could've kept it going and the kid would look right at an empty box and still describe feeling an aeroplane. Could point at the empty box and say what colour is the aeroplane And the kid would've probably had an answer Best hypnosis mark ever lol
He even says so himself. These people haven't read his books. They're soooo desperate for the "body language" and "subliminal suggestions" nonsense to be real. Derren is a fantastic showman, and he's actually a really, really good card magician, but this whole mentalism thing is extremely dishonest. Illusions never used to act like their tricks were real, but now we have Derren pretending to bu using secret psychological skills (which he does NOT possess), we got Blaine pretending to be doing extreme physical feats, we got Chriss Angel and Dynamo using camera tricks, actors, post production effects, etc. I don't like the way it's going. It's not its own skill anymore. It's just acting by another name
Ash Scott I couldn’t agree more, I wish every one agreed that mentalists = magicians. Period. Even when Derren says he lies blatantly all the time, a lot of people end up believing his subliminal influencing claims. The guy tells us NOT to believe him. Can’t we just enjoy the show, which is great, and all agree at the end that it was fiction?
Ash Scott Derren makes it very clear that he does not possess psychic powers. In fact, he doesn’t like psychics and publicly works to disprove them. He is showing the audience that psychics are not real and that they should not go and see one or pay them.
same thing basically, 'cold' and 'hot' reading if I'm remembering correctly. He talks about it somewhere; 'cold' is general information, educated guesses, and 'hot' is the reaction to that cold information, and body language and whatever clues only he and a handfull of ppl can see
I won't say as it would spoil for others but it isnt hot and cold reading as the hits are far too exact. How he does it is quite obvious and if you listen he says "these isn't a controlled environment". He isn't playing fair 😂😂
i never actually realised he was gay till today i seen his interview with jonny depp where he said "his partner at home" and then "his (partners) mother sitting down"
I been to see Derren twice now - I think he’s the most talented performer alive. An outstanding human (have you seen his art!?!)
I'm tempted to buy a print. I'm saving up
yes! his art is gorgeous.
he is an exceptionally talented individual,
I'm a big fan!
Derren is also a great actor, people don’t realise that he has to pretend to think about things when he already knows the answer that he suggested to them earlier
Spot on
you have to be like that and do that if you are performing... not just him. Hes just finest in acting, but you need acting for doing this magic tricks and illusions. Most of them ARE actors on the side.
Did you notice that when he said he wasn’t wearing an earpiece and asked 2 people to look and check he showed each of them the same ear?
It goes beyond just being a great actor, he also has a phenomenal memory. He's not lying when he says he's not wearing an earpiece, there's nobody feeding him information; for the most part he's rattling off information he memorised just prior to coming out on stage, either before the show or during the interval, something he had to do literally hundreds of nights in a row for this particular show, a different set of "predictions" every night over the entire run. That's an amazing skill, on top of his other abilities. He really is the greatest showman of our generation, his spin on what is, at the end of the day, very common mentalism techniques is just sublime.
@@angelaglanville9377 What are you smoking? He showed two people one ear and another two people the other. He also clearly said it wouldn't matter if he in fact did wear an ear-piece.
Derren: **actually teleports and moves things with his mind, lights on fire then goes invisible**
Also Derren: “remember this is a lie I’m not doing anything abnormal here”
Myth Tree It’s like when you’re a kid and you say I just ran to the moon and back but I was so fast you didn’t even see it. And other kids will believe it
@@lacari0805 the kids you hung out with were real dumb
yeah what a dickbrain right?
@@lacari0805yeah I used to do street magic and it's an amazing feeling. Seeing the look of amazement. And the funny thing is that you're doing it so fast that you can't even see how you did it. So how could they. Even cameras couldn't catch what's happening right in front of them. Something special about magic. Good magic I believe can stand up too all but the most strongest tests. If it requires the audience to con themselves it's not good magic. They should be genuinely befuddled.
@@shanescott5847 I'm a layman in magic here, so please be forgiving in your answer :p But isn't the whole point of magic, in general, to depend on the human brains' fallibility and our tendency to find patterns and answers, sometimes even when there aren't any good answers besides "I don't know"?
I'd say that pretty much in line with "the audience conning itself".
Went to see his Svengali show in Edinburgh a few years bk. afterwards we all agreed it was great and when asked what our fav part was not one of us could remember anything we had just seen. It took a few days before bits and pieces began to return of the show.. man is a wizard!
When I first read your comment I assumed that he must have done something to you guys at the end but then I tried to recall it and I can’t wtf
-Missy- i recon he did some suggestive conditioning subtly throughout the show. Only explanation for it.
The experience was so great my friend went and became a magician 😄 the magic marine i believe he is called
@@MrTakeshi763 That's awesome! I'll look him up.
-Missy- totally recommend it. He’s actually really good and has become friends with A list celebs & appeared in loads of tv and movies. I hear he is killed by gerald butler in the new angel has fallen movie 😅
@@MrTakeshi763 maybe this dude is a psychic/ medium and doesn't even realise it.
I love how this guy simultaneously debunks the quackery of psychics, homeopathy, etc, while performing there tricks on stage.
* their
@@petegiant thank you grammar police.
@@pepernst you're welcome :)
funny huh, when you have identity issues like he has its not that simple sometimes
Same sort of thing Houdini did. It's absolutely brilliant.
Derren I would certainly classify as a legitimate genius. He's got some insane skills.
he's a magician. not a genius. they're called magic tricks, and they take time and effort to master, not intelligence.
z arguably they require both time and intelligence to not only understand but master the skills
z Check out his art work and tell me he’s not a genius at excelling at anything he wants to.
@@MultiCheeseLouise its science and psychology not magic
No he ain't. He has sold his soul
when he did the psychic reading in dublin he had to stop after a young woman burst out crying when he was describing her(i want to say) grandfather. it was quite touching
The real Sherlock Holmes
I still find it funny that Derren pretends he’s a human
he is seeking help of devil/satan
@@syedadil1012 how can you be sure?
@@mircea3006 some people here(india) can do the same thing. they can tell you what's in your mind. but, unlike him, they don't hide the fact that they seek devil's help. its nothing scientific
@@syedadil1012 Hi, I think you have it the wrong way around. In India you have performers who pretend to be devil magicians and use psychology and science to get their effects. Like the 'devil magician' who gets into 'boiling' water which is pretty obviously dry ice scattered on room temperature water.
@@danielsteadman4210 you are right, but there is a difference b/w them. we know who uses psychology and who uses supernatural
Absolutely unreal. One of the best live shows I’ve ever seen
You believed it?
And people pay to see Madonna!
He is absolutely brilliant. This man is without a doubt the greatest preformer of our lifetime
Don't me wrong, Derren is brilliant & I'm a huge fan, but to call him - without argument - the greatest performer of our lifetime? Its a bit over the top.
Totally agree
Clearly you haven't seen the performances on public stage by Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau!
@@detailingshed8130Not really; they just think he’s the best
Mystery performer, perhaps, but any kind of performer? Nope.
The opening speech he did was so profound it made me think of my life and how others perceived it and the realisation that really other people really don't care about me and what goes on in my life and likewise I really don't care about there's either. I want good things for them and for them to be happy but really the stuff going on in their lives is pretty much the same as mine maybe with exception of the cancer I'm fighting. I feel different now, I feel that I don't have to wear a metaphorical mask when I'm hanging out with friends or bump into someone I know. I can just be myself because really the person I talk to doesn't really care anyway. With that notion in my mind I feel lighter and free to get on with my life without worrying about what other people think about me.
You would get a lot from his book 'Happy' it really helped me and started an interest in techniques and exercises like this that help with wellbeing.
Well but you 'd worry enough about what they think when their thoughts about you make them harm you and threaten your life. Ppl are so unaware what they are saying: It is only true a so long as things are OK and you are strong enough to self-protect and as long as bad things don't happen.
I wish you well in life… good for you.
@@PKWeaver74 thanks Phillip, I heard about his new book but I haven't had a chance to read it yet but if it helped you then I will definitely make time to read it.
@@davidfalconer9281 thank you David, that's very kind of you. You took the time out of your life to actually think about me and send your message and that kindness isn't lost on me and very much appreciated.
Derren never ceases to amaze me, just brilliant !
I was there for the recording in Leeds. My favourite moment was 'No-one has the right to trample on your memories of people that you've loved'
arrived at this comment the moment it was spoken -always strange feeling when something like that happens!
Using the "random" dice is a clever gimmik. Though it is random it restricts what pages can be selected. No page containing a digit 0 or 7,8,9. so for example pages 1 to 99 actually is limited to only 36 pages not 99, so he does not need to memorise 100%
Muggle.
clever
He did have the guy flip to a random page number and read that too. Look online for video of derren brown memorizing the dictionary
You missed the part about the phone number
why 36 pages tho? with dice you can roll 6 twice so the highest possible number would be 66, 1 through 66.
Unbelievable talent, and understanding of the human mind.
Absolutely great
I was a volunteer on one of these shows involved in the psychic half time section. I can absolutely vouch that I was not a stooge! I was actually hoping my name would not be called out (it is bad enough just being there in front of the audience). But it was and what followed to this day I cannot fully comprehend. Derren made no pretence that he possessed any psychic powers and actually made a point of highligting that he didn't! So I could see how the trick was done and it relied upon his ability to memorise a great many things in a finite amount of time. That said I cannot explain why I said exactly what I did not want to say - my mind was a blank apart from those exact words that I did not want to say! When you are pressured for an answer but there is literally nothing else the result is inevitable! I spent a couple of hours in the Cambridge pub after talking to other audience members and many years since thinking about this. It has made me think long and hard about our own perceptions of life and just how easily that perception can be altered in a blink - or a show.
"You'll worry a lot less about what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do." - David Foster Wallace
I have seen him live and is amazing but also very human and never makes fun out of the audience, it's just a fun night out.
looks it!!
I've watched almost all of derren browns stuff but this is by far the most incredible thing I've seen
4:15 what's your name?
*FEHHH*
"give me the name of one of your dogs"
*EBBEH*
@@yalikebe3ns797 How old are you?
*Twentehh*
Honest about lying.....gotta respect that
Word has it that the woman at the end still gets prank called on a daily basis from the rest of the audience.
Brilliant is not enough of a word.
Brilliantastical?
Derren said "The man I am on stage is divorced from who I am in real life. When I am performing, being that controlling person, that is not me. I'm actually fairly quiet".
Astounding. I am sitting here in tears over the brilliance of this man.
I was on the bus and this affected me. Some say I'm still there
Lol
damn i really want to see derren in one of his shows
Such an intelligent brain! Unfortunately I usually can’t see images in my head unless I’m sleeping. It blew my mind learning other people could see things easily !
Hmm it blows my mind that people can't. I can very easily conjure any image in my head but the clarity of it varies. There does seem to be distinction between imagistic thought and semantic thought, which makes sense because I rarely think in words and when I do it's very vague and not explicitly coherent
Absolutely brilliant. All smoke and mirrors and psychology. I like that he debunks all the "mojo" stuff in all its forms. Just 'cos you can't do it doesn't mean it isn't just a clever bit of trickery. I also like it that he uses Philip Glass. The Mentalist and the Minimalist together on stage. :)
Not only it is brilliant, but the ending is just hilarious.
Derren is such a unique brilliant talent
Absolute superb, brilliant, world class entertainer.
Either a brilliant setup and bluff, or this guy is highly observant, highly perceptive & intellectual.
Yes. All of that
What people don't realise is: He isn't trying to convince you what he's doing is real, he's trying to make you see that you will continue to deny that it is real, even when he tells you it isn't real. That as human beings we will always defy information we are given, even when it's already our belief already. No part of this act is real, nor does he claim it is.
He even says at the start of the show that he was sent to NLP nutcases to "cure" him of his gayness, and realised that NLP was BS. Then he proceeds to pretend to be using NLP, among other such nonsense, for an hour, and people think there's something to it. At least he's more honest about it now than he was when he first got big, and seemed determined to make people think that he was using phychological skills and body language and NLP and subliminal suggestion and all that bullshit
People dont understand what he really does
Well the point is not if it's real or not, as he admits it's not. The point is, how is the trick performed? If it's simply actors payed to say what he wants, which is the most likely scenario, that's pretty lame. If not, that would be very interesting.
Derren is quite amazing. By telling us all the things he is not, he distracts from what he is, a conjurer, and that is all. Many of his tricks are very old, and very well know techniques. I've seen him do a routine on television, using a gimmick anyone can buy for $2 in any magic shop. This is his genius, and why he blows minds wherever he goes.
I have a challenge for you, take that gimmick and try to teach it to 5 people and see how successful you are....then get back to me
frott scost I have already taught it to three, and they regularly perform the same trick. Derren is all about presentation, and the double bluff of him telling you how it’s done. Incidentally I taught those people as I refined the gimmick a little bit to improve it.
There's nothing for $2 in a magic shop. Seriously, not even incense are $2.
@@ASMRyouVEGANyet Indeed......www.amazon.com/Swami-Gimmick-gimmicks-Lead-Book/dp/B00OZN86VS/ref=sr_1_1?crid=13E68R4W1CDNF&dchild=1&keywords=swami+gimmick&qid=1588172771&sprefix=SWARMI+GIMMICK%2Caps%2C206&sr=8-1
You who have committed on how this was done make me laugh. If it were that easy to perform these tricks,more ppl would do them.Thank you
I was going to say that I can't imagine what the world must be like for people like you but I think I can imagine it. I remember thinking that things were real when they were actually just tv commercials or performances, or stories that people told me with emotion and emphasis. But that was when I was a child! It breaks my heart to think of how many stupid people there are in the world and how terribly vulnerable to exploitation they are. I no longer think there is any way to fix it. People are stupid and they just can't see that they are. Please don't be convinced by me. I convinced someone once that they were stupid and it caused them to be humiliated. I felt like I'd vandalized a person's self respect. I don't want to do that again but if you don't know how a magic trick was done, don't claim that you know it was accomplished by means other than simple tricks.
@@MarkLucasProductions can you read? I said trick,look it up,it doesn't have anything to do with believing it's real. You're condescending and quite frankly you apparently don't comprehend English. I was saying most ppl don't know how he does his tricks or the average person would do it. There are many ways of accomplishing the many affects in many different shows and I bet the majority of the public don't know how it's done,including you unless you're a magician.
@@MarkLucasProductions Calling other people stupid yet you can't comprehend basic English. Moron.
There's knowing how, and there's being able. Even if I knew every step of his act, I will never be close to the level of showmanship.
His career came together around his particular skills and interests. It would be very odd indeed if someone else could perform exactly the same tricks as well as he does.
But even with psychology, you can't possibly figure out that someone's grandmother got bitten by at monkey at Gibraltar. That's just insane.
that's called research on people/psychology
@@w_szon3115 No. Derren Brown is amazing for a lot of reasons, but he doesn't have supernatural insight. (Or any supernatural abilities that other people don't have) What is special about him is he is extremely creative, more so than most other people alive. And I'm not going to tell you I know how he did that trick. But I can think of possible ways to do it. Almost everything you see Derren Brown do, over 90% of the world's population could do it as well if he were to tell them the exact method and help them practice. There is no form of psychology that would allow you to guess or intuit that somebody got bit by a monkey in Gibralter. I realize he does all kinds of real amazing psychological tricks in a lot of his performances, but that was too spot on. My best guess is that came from some sort of pre-show work, possibly well before the show. But I honestly don't know. Don't have a clue. I'm willing to stretch my belief that he could actually have a crazy memory, and that it was a memory trick (like having people fill out a survey when they buy their ticket), though I doubt it. But I'm not at all willing to believe he can look at a person and intuit that they got bit by a monkey in gibralter, or anything else that specific. He would be able to win James Randi's million dollar prize if he had that ability, and winning that would make anybody so notorious; there is no way Derren Brown would turn that down.
@@TheDobstopper stfu punk
@@TheDobstopper When Derren decides to retire, I hope he does one last tour teaching audiences a quarter to a third of his techniques, including the very best one but not the next two. (not that specific; just an example) By teaching only a fraction, other people in a similar line of work will have to be more imaginative by an achievable amount.
Edit: or a Master Class instead of a tour
Possibly done by researching some of the people attending or recording conversations in the lobby. You could find this information easily if it’s on their Facebook profile for example. Commonly done by ‘psychics’ and exposed by derren before now... so I’d bet that’s a technique he uses often.
First time I see hypnosis used as misdirection, that's really clever.
There are magnets under the bowls for the dice, so the number/trick is pre determined, the rice grains were already in his hand despite what he says when he grabs them out the bowl...he did something similar on James Corden show where it is much more obvious.
You must be a genius
I wonder how many phone calls poor Amanda got after the show. :)
not a big deal after the show, more like now that's online.. well, she's fucked.
i'm thinking about calling her right now.....
I'll bet that number was not her actual phone number.
Enough for a quick slay or 3
@@MrMustangMan call her and ask her if she’s keen to give you her nickers and socks… the ones she wore at work all day.
Then sniff them.
I have a particular set of skills.
Good Luck....
Gemma from the Lucky dog experiment is part of the second half of the show. Pause at 42:13
He is one fabulous entertainer, no matter what he does I choose to believe. I would love to attend one of his shows. All the very best Darren Brown.
1:04:31 Suspect how his right hand was out of sight, and close to his sides.
1:04:43 Pretty sure he was emptying the 22 grains of rice from a thumb tip (a fake thumb sleeve magicians use to hide small items inside).
But to even predict that the 2 people at the end would have rolled 2 & 2 is insane.
he should have been casted in the movie *now you see me* as the psychic with mind powers!
This is the first time I've heard or seen Darrin I'm amazed and hooked !!!
his enigma show is must watch especially the finale
I'd forgotten about this I'll check out the enigma 👍 @@craigbliss6748
@@craigbliss6748 I can't find it on UA-cam it seems you have to buy or rent it.
The amount of calls Amanda was getting after this show!
I would love Derren to visit the Long Island Medium show here in the US :)
He really earns his corn.
Some of you are a bit rude by calling him a scam artist. It is just entertainment. It is fun because it is a play on human fantasy. It is staged and well staged. Just have fun with it. That is all it is there for.
well said. i say don't watch it if your gona moan i think derren is an amazing person nd hate when people call him out like you said its only for entertainment purposes
he is seeking help of satan/muwakkil and hiding this fact in name of science. many people, sadhus, Molvis here (in india) can do it. its nothing scientific.
@Majowh its not scientific, he is seeking help of devil
@@syedadil1012 which devil? I would say the zoroastrian one.
@@informitas0117 devil mentioned in bible, the same devil mentioned in quran and yes the same devil mentioned in Zoroastrians Zend Avesta
Prof. X can walk again!!!
I was on the bus too and totally into this until I was awakened by the screams of my passengers
33:00 shout out to Tim Minchin
I picked up on that too!!!
I thought that too.❤
whats your name?: FEEHH How Old Are You ? : TWENTEH
AMANDAAAH
Dog's name? EBBEHHHH
Yes - that's the accent from a strange place called "The North".
Now, go and have a BAARTH before you SAPPAR.
@@JMUDoc what are you trying to say ? These aren't words
@@TomDeLaCruz LMAO
Derren is an amazing illusionist! I've watched so much of his stuff, but I still have no idea how he does the physic reading stuff.
Psychic reading is done every day by so called "mediums" and "psychics" in their stage shows and online. It is an act, which can be done by anyone with training.
He’s brilliant would love to see him 😊
I think we’re lucky he’s around performing and would encourage anyone to go and see him
51:06 - Finding Wally or Waldo
He was most proud of the rice and I love that!
Darren you are awesome. Thank you❤
7:07 I would have thought of Antidisestablishmentarianism
He said a 4 letter word or less.
@@TheSniped117 No he didn't. He said AT LEAST 4 letters, shorter if you want.
I chose creosote.
Andrew Lawrence lmao nice
You would’ve chosen what he wanted you to choose😂 that’s what he does you can say “I would’ve chosen” but odds are you’d choose exactly what he wanted you too
derren is mint what a great performer
This is freaking me out
Well then Derrens did his work :)
I'd argue what he does is even more impressive than if he could actually talk to the dead.
That's me behind the stage...running off with my new spider.
is it really you?
@@redandwhitewizard77 Nope. I was just being sarcastic.
20:53 funny how he leaned forward ready to 'sleep' even though derren only said close your eyes
Derren Brown taking off Joe Power i think. lol nice 1
Joe certainly, but also mixing in two other Liverpool fakes, the late Derek Acorah, and the totally fake Billy Roberts.
Very bewildered looking audience during the debunk - “ what no afterlife ?”
He has a massive wire that connects to just above his ear, sound can travel through your skull or bone, so just because he says he hasn't got an ear piece makes no difference, he is obviously being fed information.
he clearly shows that it isn't an ear piece and just a mic
@@redandwhitewizard77 I'm not sure where in the show he would actually 'need' to be fed audio information but your assertion that "he clearly shows that it isn't an earpiece" is ridiculous.
Brian Burnett that’s a microphone, you small brain😹😹
Bone conduction
@@romshes77 WTF is bone induction?
He just makes me cry at the end. Simply astounding
Facebook and earpieces give this act some incredible potency in this day and age
Mad what a coincidence. I literally live along that 463 bus route😂
It's not an impressive coincidence. Many people live along many bus routs. Since Derren was going to name 'some' bus rout, a significant proportion of all of the people who lived along whatever bus rout he was going to name would have seen this show. When they saw it they would think wow, what a coincidence! It's a coincidence for 'you' just as it is a coincidence for everyone who wins the lottery each week.
@@MarkLucasProductions Not quite a coincidence as such. The bus route chosen was very close to where he grew up which is where I live. He actually went to a school 5 minutes away from mine. The only coincidence here is that I live in the same area that he grew up
or do you?
I think the speaking to the dead bit was as simple as this.
The team looked up the audience on Facebook, and selected people who had info on their Facebook which would make it look like the dead is coming through.
This day and age everyone shares their whole lives on social media. It wouldn’t be hard to find good information from a few people in such a big audience
THE LUCKE CHARMER you’re an idiot
Shows you lack intelligence and understanding. He’s actually so good you can’t believe him
Absolutely insane! Also I could've sworn the song at 19:20 was from Battlestar, but now I'm unsure
Edit: it is in Battlestar! But it's not a song made directly for the show. Metamorphosis One by Philip Glass
Am I the only one thinking about the part where he took out some stuff from Adam's stomach using his fingers.. I still dont know what it was.. 🤔
Yeah I'm so confused as to why that happened for no reason and wasn't question after by the audience or by most of this comments section
Amazing. Enjoyed very much
Stewart Lee has really let himself go
I think you're mistaken; that's clearly the Serbian warlord Ratko Mladić.
What is that piano music when Adam is on the stage. It’s so peaceful
Is that Derek Akora he's impersonating?
you'd be amazed how many "psychics" have that accent. lol
44:08 Is that guy in the background, in the red top, the guy who can remember the order of cards in an entire pack of cards. I've seen him b4. Strange to see him, not only in that selected group of people on stage, but also in the background as the camera, and Derren focuses on the person in front.
He is so good, loved his shows since 1st show years ago when did the fall asleep answering telephone trick, trick of mind, but how the F he got that telephone number is just insane, random number from a random guy added to a random bus route is just inexplicable to me
If you don't want the trick spoiled, don't read ahead.
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Any time a mentalist or a magician asks someone to write something down on a piece of paper or a board, you can be 100% certain they're using a gimmicked pen that looks like an ordinary pen but which transmits everything you write to a remote receiver. There are dozens of them available from all sorts of magic suppliers. From there it should be obvious how a lot of Derren's stage magic works.
What is that piano music playing in the beginning? When he brought Adam to the stage?
The FBI should hire this guy!
I just wanted to point out that making two Rubik's Cubes match one another blindfolded is exactly as difficult as solving it blindfolded.
So it was specifically said there was no backround research done. So how can he guess the monkey bite? Any way of getting the info beforehand is backround research.
Because that's a lie. Of course there's background information
Pens that people use to write stuff are equiped with video cams. He always takes the pens back. The team transmits what's written back to him, perhaps via bone conduction.
Bone induction?
Obviously I meant "bone conduction". Fixed now.
Nope wrong again. The pens don't have cameras . That is a fact. There is a trick to it but you have absolutely no clue.
@@romshes77 Nope bone conduction was not used either.
He saves a fortune on Rhohyonol lol
Awesome guys love him
Ray Perry I was lucky enough to meet him once after one of his shows and he is such a charming, likeable person. I'm amazed by how he understands the human mind!
greenkitty82 He is one smart cooky for sure and seems very nice . Lucky you
Ray Perry yeah honestly he is, very polite and friendly and not a single ounce of arrogance or pretentiousness. Very humble. I really wish more people were like him but I'm a huge fan. I'd love him to do more stage shows!
36:12 he tells the kid the box is empty then makes the kid hypnotize himself and then shows the kid the empty box 3000 people have been looking at the whole time 😂
I wonder if he could've kept it going and the kid would look right at an empty box and still describe feeling an aeroplane.
Could point at the empty box and say what colour is the aeroplane
And the kid would've probably had an answer
Best hypnosis mark ever lol
52:24 Love that dig at the Yanks
In this comment section: people that don't get why Derren does what he does. That it's all fake magic is the whole point.
He even says so himself. These people haven't read his books. They're soooo desperate for the "body language" and "subliminal suggestions" nonsense to be real. Derren is a fantastic showman, and he's actually a really, really good card magician, but this whole mentalism thing is extremely dishonest. Illusions never used to act like their tricks were real, but now we have Derren pretending to bu using secret psychological skills (which he does NOT possess), we got Blaine pretending to be doing extreme physical feats, we got Chriss Angel and Dynamo using camera tricks, actors, post production effects, etc. I don't like the way it's going. It's not its own skill anymore. It's just acting by another name
Ash Scott I couldn’t agree more, I wish every one agreed that mentalists = magicians. Period. Even when Derren says he lies blatantly all the time, a lot of people end up believing his subliminal influencing claims. The guy tells us NOT to believe him. Can’t we just enjoy the show, which is great, and all agree at the end that it was fiction?
Yeah
Ash Scott Derren makes it very clear that he does not possess psychic powers. In fact, he doesn’t like psychics and publicly works to disprove them. He is showing the audience that psychics are not real and that they should not go and see one or pay them.
he didnt explain the speaking with dead act or did i missed how that trick is done? all the rest tricks are well known
same thing basically, 'cold' and 'hot' reading if I'm remembering correctly. He talks about it somewhere; 'cold' is general information, educated guesses, and 'hot' is the reaction to that cold information, and body language and whatever clues only he and a handfull of ppl can see
I won't say as it would spoil for others but it isnt hot and cold reading as the hits are far too exact. How he does it is quite obvious and if you listen he says "these isn't a controlled environment". He isn't playing fair 😂😂
This guy is cleverAF! 😀👏🏻👏🏻
I really really like what he's doing. Chapeau.
Dating Derren must be a nightmare 😂
I think he split up from his boyfriend recently. Sad. I bet his boyfriend never saw him much, as he was always touring.
i never actually realised he was gay till today i seen his interview with jonny depp where he said "his partner at home" and then "his (partners) mother sitting down"
And you too Fletcher!
12:09 it's creepy, i thought about popcorn🤔
Stunning!
I did magic at one point but this is next level.
8:33 That guy with the pen and paper was standing AWFULLY close to the woman, wasn't he.