Comment by js2
1 year ago
Ricky Jay (RIP) is also extraordinary and has a handful of videos on YouTube. His stuff is mostly with cards and his humor is more aimed at adults. One of my favorites is his appearance on Arsenio Hall (I wish this was better quality):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jKuHiY397U
You gotta watch to the end. Arsenio bends a card when Ricky looks away and thinks he can follow it that way but... well, just watch. :-)
One of his shows (with some fancy card throwing):
Documentary:
Yeah, Ricky Jay was the last of a breed (he was also a friend of a friend, something I only learned after both he and the friend had died). He was very schooled in a lot of the street con games and was also a scholar of historical frauds and cams. He published a small-circulation magazine with his researches in the latter.
And of course his appearances in various David Mamet–related properties were not to be missed.