Hello everyone, greetings from Israel!
Not sure if it has been posted here before, but Uri Geller has a new reality show over here to choose his "heir", in the style of American Idol. Which is a bit of a shame since it's been so many years since he's been on TV here, and now he's having his come back. The good thing is that most of the people in Israel realize he's a fraud and don't take him too seriously, though I'm sad to say there are always those who think everything they see on TV is true.
Either way, the first episode was tonight and I thought you'd be interested to hear some funny stuff that's going on there. The concept is about Geller watching about 5-6 participants doing their tricks and each week some new ones come along. He's the main judge, like Simon but without the jokes and the sarcasm, and there are 4 more judges who say what they think (3 of them are celebrities that would believe a simple magic trick if they saw one).
They all seem amazed about every trick that the participants show, which are the basic mentalism, reading minds, exploding glasses and all the stuff that you can see a lot of magician do. It's funny how Geller praises each one of them like they do have special powers, while they do exactly the same stuff that he does. He's the one who does the elimination at the end of the show, but this time he enjoyed each one of them so he chose to make them all stay for the next episode.
Anyway, I just thought this show can do him more harm than good, since it's obvious that those people don't have any special talents because no one has ever heard of them before. And if they do the same tricks as he does, then I hope it will only prove that there's nothing special about him either.
By the way, there was this funny thing on the show. There was this one "psychic" who does the trick where someone puts a sharp knife in a cup and he needs to know where extacty it is so he won't hurt himself, while being blindfolded. But before his performance, they show us a video of one of his performances about 3 years ago where he had a mistake and really cut himself with the knife. It went right through his hand, and he has scars all over it! Tonight he tried to do it again live, but I guess this time he actually learned the trick before because it worked. For a second I was sure he would hurt himself again since he seems like he's the worst magician ever.. I think he was the "winner" of this episode, probably because all the judges were relieved that he didn't kill himself on the air!
I guess the point of this story is, this show looks more like a regular magic show than anything else, and hopefully it will show the audience that's extactly what he does: nothing but simple magic tricks.
Not sure if it has been posted here before, but Uri Geller has a new reality show over here to choose his "heir", in the style of American Idol. Which is a bit of a shame since it's been so many years since he's been on TV here, and now he's having his come back. The good thing is that most of the people in Israel realize he's a fraud and don't take him too seriously, though I'm sad to say there are always those who think everything they see on TV is true.
Either way, the first episode was tonight and I thought you'd be interested to hear some funny stuff that's going on there. The concept is about Geller watching about 5-6 participants doing their tricks and each week some new ones come along. He's the main judge, like Simon but without the jokes and the sarcasm, and there are 4 more judges who say what they think (3 of them are celebrities that would believe a simple magic trick if they saw one).
They all seem amazed about every trick that the participants show, which are the basic mentalism, reading minds, exploding glasses and all the stuff that you can see a lot of magician do. It's funny how Geller praises each one of them like they do have special powers, while they do exactly the same stuff that he does. He's the one who does the elimination at the end of the show, but this time he enjoyed each one of them so he chose to make them all stay for the next episode.
Anyway, I just thought this show can do him more harm than good, since it's obvious that those people don't have any special talents because no one has ever heard of them before. And if they do the same tricks as he does, then I hope it will only prove that there's nothing special about him either.
By the way, there was this funny thing on the show. There was this one "psychic" who does the trick where someone puts a sharp knife in a cup and he needs to know where extacty it is so he won't hurt himself, while being blindfolded. But before his performance, they show us a video of one of his performances about 3 years ago where he had a mistake and really cut himself with the knife. It went right through his hand, and he has scars all over it! Tonight he tried to do it again live, but I guess this time he actually learned the trick before because it worked. For a second I was sure he would hurt himself again since he seems like he's the worst magician ever.. I think he was the "winner" of this episode, probably because all the judges were relieved that he didn't kill himself on the air!
I guess the point of this story is, this show looks more like a regular magic show than anything else, and hopefully it will show the audience that's extactly what he does: nothing but simple magic tricks.
