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Hey guys,

Just to let you all know I now have a myspace page, with video clips on from my tv shows. It has the often requested coins through glass table, and also my favourite matrix routine from the Secret World of Magic. I also will be looking to put other clips on there, including unseen tv footage.

Visit me at:
http://www.myspace.com/alicookmagic

Let me know what you think.

Ali Cook

Amazing stuff! The ring to egg had me floored! Absolutely brilliant, sir!

Ooooh Nice! Absolutely brilliant

- How did you do that?
- With great skill.

Ahhh you're the bloke from the telly ! Really impressive stuff you got there. I remember you on Monkey Magic and Dirty Tricks. Really like the videos good work!

Most impressed. Great work, I loved the show you did with Pete

Good stuff I think i remember the coins through table on monkey magic. Oh and i loved the secret world of magic.

Jim

Neil Hamburger as a friend? His standup is probably the funniest and most deeply offensive thing on the planet. Great stuff!

I've just returned from doing Stand up in LA and met Neil Hamburger at a gig. He is very offensive and very funny a bit like Andy Kaufman's charecter Tony Clifton. Next time I'm out there I'm going to do his poolside chat interview. Thanks For the kind feedback especially on the ring to egg and the coins through table - Alot of people thought they were "tricks for telly" but both are real time methods.

Ali

Very nice Ali!!

Although I have one small quibble- 2many DJ's, cemical brothers, daft punk- all very nice but the doors! come on Ali

I know, I seem to be going through a reverse student phase at the moment the older i get the more studenty my tastes get....Must go, I'm just nipping out to buy Bob marley and a Che Guevara poster.

the doors! a massive waste of leather and a hammond organ...

but tony clifton...what a genius...oooh tony clifton magic, that would be an act...

you've got some fantastic work there mr.cook...

Tony Clifton mentalist act is something I've been thinking of creating over the last few weeks. A mentalist with a huge ego and incredibly rude. I laso have the physique for it.
Tony Clifton is genius.

BTW love the ring in egg...brilliant!

yeah...im getting sumtin' from youse...yeah...

erm...rum, scum, dumb, thumb....

ever seen will ferrell doing (not in the dirty sense) robert goullet? superb...

Hey, Ali, great site! I really enjoyed those videos and all the info. I just have one question. Where did you get four American half dollars? I've lived here my entire life and never seen one!

A Tony Clifton magician is cool. I studied charecter comedy / scene writing in Chicago and LA and the idea of charecter is great but takes a lot of ability to pull off. The acting ability / improv and writing skills needed all whilst doing your pinky counts.

Will Ferrell is my current favourite comedy actor along with Steve Carrell.

The person I've seen pull off very funny magic charecters is Jerry Sadowitz. On the Jerry @ Trick show he had a scottish mad man charecter who was really tight. Cant remember his name but he was very good. He also pulled off a very good David Bland and a great psycho mind reader charecter. He used to stroke a hand drill and call himself "The keeper of Lateral thinking problems." To pull stuff like that off you just have to have funny bones. Jerry really has them. He used to do show with a comic called Logan Murray. Logan also does a charecter called Ronnie Rigsby. A bitter showbiz has been. His ability to improvise as this charecter is amazing.

As for the american half dollars, I think we chould have just said "He's got four coins" Oops.

Even when I've pulled out weird old coins no layman ever in ten years has ever even mentioned them, ever.