I remember seeing this the night that it happened, in 1973: Uri Geller trying to perform some psychic "feats" on The Tonight Show, and host Johnny Carson (a magician himself and someone with a low tolerance for hucksters and hoaxes) making sure he can't fool anyone with a trick by changing the items on the table. This is a slightly edited version, but it's very telling. Geller actually gets a little irritated at Carson, at one point even mentioning that Carson was supposed to ask him the questions they agreed on before the show. Doc Severinsen sits there waiting for Geller to do something amazing, but it never comes.
That's magician and professional debunker James Randi narrating the clip. I think this is part of a larger documentary that was show on television several years ago.
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7-28-2006 @ 3:33PM
Josh Judd said...
go here for the full version of the video: http://www.darat.org/~dimossi/James.Randi.debunking.on.Tonight.Show.wmv
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7-28-2006 @ 3:34PM
bd said...
There's a much longer (13 minutes) and better quality version of this clip here:
http://www.darat.org/~dimossi/James.Randi.debunking.on.Tonight.Show.wmv
Randi has kicked this guys ass so many times it's not even a sport for him anymore.
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7-28-2006 @ 3:36PM
bd said...
That wasn't there when I started.
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7-28-2006 @ 5:35PM
Aaron M said...
This is part of a NOVA documentary Randi did called "Secrets of the Psychics". You can get a copy of the whole thing on VHS from the James Randi Education Foundation: http://randi.org/shopping/index.html#video
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