This episode saw us teaming up with our only female celebrity of the series, Tina Hobley.
The tranportation box trick is something that had existed in our notebooks for quite a while and we’d always wanted to try it. It is one of those tricks that is scary to perform in case the people involved on stage catch us out. Not half as scary, however, as the grammar of the Art Department when they first delivered the box…
We also did what is probably the most elaborate stunt for us for the whole series. We convinced ghost believers that we were genuine ghost hunters and the spirit that we were trying to communicate with was actually Santa Claus!
We fimed it in December before the second series had begun airing but unfortunately our first lot of ghost believers recognised us and knew that we were magicians so we had to work hard at fooling our other small group of people. Tina’s little girl said to her after the show “Why are they running away from Santa mummy?”
We were up against it once again as another item was dropped for being too extreme. This was a shame as it was already replaced for something less extreme anyway. So, last minute we had to re-write and rehearse something totally different. It ended up being the drawing routine and our roles were switched so that I ended up getting the ‘mouth to mouth’ at the end.
Below: Even if we did Skele-Ball it would be “too dark and weird!”
Next episode we cook up some magic with John and Gregg from Masterchef, and things are heating up already backstage.
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Elizabeth Feb 3 2012 - 10:24 am
Barry, you make an awesome Santa, and Tina’s little girl sounds adorable. Unfortunately I am not watching live this week, as if I was I would probably vote for you to make sure you’re series winners. Damn the production staff for deeming most of your stuff to extreme!
Clare Feb 3 2012 - 10:24 am
Series winners you say?Game on then #TeamBarryAndStuart
Juliet Feb 3 2012 - 12:45 pm
Aha, Your tricks last week were awesome! I did love it when Barry got dressed up as Santa… What’s the surprise for this Saturday? Stuart dressing up like the Easter Bunny would be V.Amusing. Good Luck for this Saturday! I’ll be in the audience cheering you on!
Juliet Xxx