I am guilty too !

@@whataloadofbollox Me too . . . every damn time I come across it

I wish I was a kid 12 years ago, you're so young! lol

Me too.

I am 63 and amazed

@@iamdb1990 that 1990 in your name better not be your birth year or you got no business calling other people young ;)

I would agree, but my dad, who doesn't know any magic says Lennart Green is his favorite magician. I don't think he's just a magicians magician, it's just that there aren't many close up magicians that laypeople have heard of.

late respond , he acts like a foolish and stumbling magician , when he actually knows what hes doing , MR sharp .

Tommy Cooper

clossbone Absolutly awsome

King with misterdirection.

love it . thats a good one @@zippyzee

sandhes thanissery yeah right, indian magician..

He is amazing. Wowow!

It's all in his lap. Richard Turner is infinitely better at this sort of routine.

I see where shin lim got some of his act

Hats of what?

didn't help!

axertrybal itsss a yolllk

I know right!?

I deadass opened the video and just touched the seek bar to a random point , and it was exactly this quote, not even a second ahead or behind.

What a great line, I love this man's delivery, haha!

his "yokes"**

dunno if I enjoyed the jokes more or the tricks.

@@garrett.zimmer beat me to it lol. That's what I actually came in here to reply lol 😂.

My favourite topic is .......... shortcuts.

His whole thing is on another level!!!!

He laughed ahead of everyone else though. The rest of the audience was much slower.

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Yeah, it would be extremely annoying to sit near that guy.

@@sealand000 What u mean? he was amazing!

I'ts john from the audience of L and L publishing

The guy laughing hard every time is the girl's father.

The only one that gets it

Yep, Lennart is a veritable god among us conjurers. I could watch him forever!

no his accent is the one of the best parts about the video

@@haxxorlord7327 he meant the audience didnt understand some of the things he said so they didnt know what was going on

@@MrAvocadoMan Totally agree. I found a few things "off" with what he was saying. Hard to follow/a bit confusing. If his English was a bit better, this would be 10/10. At the moment it's 8/10 for me.

You call that a heavy accent??? Where are you from?

@@billyd4eva The accent and his supposed "struggle" with English makes it fun. He has a very good command of the English language - better than many native English speakers.

The girl sits there wide eyed...like the rest of us

dude we all know iceland is the land of real magic STOP TRYING TO FOOL US >:C !!!

The false illusion of sloppiness and the slow lumbering style he presents add an element of surprise for the viewer when the payoff of a trick comes that somebody using a standard slick polished approach doesn't get. At the same time though his style also creates a certain level of awkwardness and leaves a lot of the audience unaware he's even done a trick some of the time.

Very well put. And, for all of you magicians out there, you realize that Lennart is a genius - a veritable god among conjurers. He is really the complete package as to what a magician should aspire to be: a hard worker, a great routine creator, technically excellent, very humorous in a subtle way, great interactions with the audience, flexible in the heat of battle. Long ago, he asked himself, “How can I make people want to see/care about what I do with a deck of cards?” He then set about to create precisely that and, obviously, succeeded. In short, a great entertainer. In my opinion, this is the most entertaining magical clip on UKposts.

@Elvis Leong likes sour cream and onion chips 0

The fact that he starts out slow where you can guess what he's doing and then halfway through it slowly ramps up to the really amazing stuff gets me. Truly a performer.

Rick Jay just seems _smoother_ to me.

DARYL DIETRICH meh, I just watched some of his tricks, and while he is pretty good, he is missing that air of mysticism that surrounds Ricky Jay. RJ makes me feel like I'm watching a centuries old master of their craft magician.

To be fair, it is lennarts style, to actually break the illusion of smoothness. Whenever he drops a card or misses his palm. The amazing thing is when you notice, he actually wants to miss. His precision is more than amazing.

L Green is the BEST!

@@crywhit4619 Pretty good? He is so good that they thought he was cheating on the World Cup of magic so he was disqualified. The experts said that what he performed was "impossible" without stooges. So he later came back, and did the same trick again, now with the judges taking part of it (selecting cards and so on). Then he finally won, as he should have done earlier.

Mitch Hedberg rules! :D

Awesomeness Hippopotamus I think going for the potato angle is a bit over played now.

***** you're right. Once they put on the cumquat lens it really brought the show to new light.

+Awesomeness Hippopotamus www.ted.com, you can find better quality

+shahin mostajir And filmed in 2005 I think

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averyaugust The E stands for Entertainment. There you go.

BOAB You mean they need to bring back people like him. His appearance here precedes all the self indulgent bullshitters on TED in the last 7-8 years. It's gotten so bad that that's what they created the TEDX branch for.

@@Krokrodyl TED stands for technology, Engineering, design but they ran out of ideas, so included everything.

@@PreservationEnthusiast No. It stands for Technology Entertainment and Design. And they indeed do include everything now. This talk however is from 2005.

I think it is 'fathomabile' as it's just card tricks, don't you people realise that if you hire a 'Magician' you want 'Magic' not card tricks FFs.

If I was approached by a 'Magician' on the street that showed me a 'deck of cards' I would punch him in the face and say, you said you were going to show me 'magic' not a 'card trick' , 'card tricks are not magic' sad bastards. :'-(

Ok :-)

Alistair Cameron, you may be a sociopath. Get checked out.

Sleight of hand is the best magic.

You are right, it even has a blonde in the background for some visual stress relief. They thought of everything!

"A blonde"? Not even "A blonde GIRL"? Just "a blonde" like that is what defines here. And what about her anyway. Shes just a girl. Why are so many magicians social misfits who HAVE to react to any girl on a magic video? No wonder so few of us are into magic! Pathetic.

+Suzanne Rojek a blonde

"What about her". She looks absolutely stunning, and people like looking at pretty people. "Why are so many magicians social misfits who HAVE to react to any girl on a magic video?" You dug this one comment about the girl from reply to another comment among hundreds of comments where one mentions she looks nice, and you take that to mean **many** magicians are social misfits. For someone that seemingly tries to preach message of treating everyone as person regardless of their characteristics, you seem to have ironically just stereotyped a huge bunch of people in your search for social justice. "No wonder so few of us are into magic!" As someone that is somewhat interested in gender gaps, some fields being hugely male-oriented is a puzzle, but I really can't see you making shallow judgemental comments like this helping in figuring that puzzle out or improving the world otherwise :p

Exactly. Comedy, sleight of hand magic (the best kind of magic), great magician, great personality, and nice looking girl.

He has a gift for making you think he is doing one thing, while doing another..

13 genius

@@ivanabcdefg9375 Watch the video and get the reference genius.

@@Alpha-1-Omega quotations used to stand for something.

@@nickcosman1125 I know. As you could see I was replying to Ivan abcdefg since he missed the point from Mattias Skog.

@@ivanabcdefg9375 it was a joke the magician said, genius.

Except one…

being so awed by the trickery that they just plain forget to clap...

@Shan Jiang The word in this case is "proceeds". :)

@Shan Jiang the word in this case is "you're". :)

I just love the improvisation of this moment. It may have been a set up but it feels improvised. If you watch closely you can see him decide to take the heckler on as he realizes he can pull an Armani out of nowhere. This guy is a genius.

@@stephenbochicchio4506 it was already part of his act but just not at that moment. And he even implies it when he says "it was after the blindfold" meaning the blindfold act that he was gonna do next

Are you sure you didn't make up that number? 37 is the most commonly chosen number when people need a random number from 1 to 100... just kidding lol

décadas!

@@maxiydeiaparatodos It takes Lennart!