Dear Darren Brown, I just wanted to say that you are a wonderful performer and an excellent artist and magician. Your talent and creativity are truly inspiring. Best regards, B Jacobs
Reading "Notes from a Fellow Traveler" right now. Also just recently purchased a decently priced copy of "Absolute Magic" on ebay partly due to Erik's mention of it on a previous episode. Derren is such a thoughtful and articulate writer for what magic should be. So excited to dive into this episode.
Fantastic interview! Impressed by how deeply researched you were, your questions were insightful and genuine and provoked a thoughtful response from Derren. Thank you for this. I’m fairly new to magic, but a long time fan of DB 😊✌️
At 57:46 in slow motion something flies across the screen from top right to bottom left behind and close to derrens shoulder, what is that it maybe some kind of insect?
From my AI: Channel 4 is not part of the BBC. Channel 4 is a British public broadcast television channel that is owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a state-owned media company. Channel.
@@stillnotstill The BBC is a collection of channels, they have among others the tv channels BBC ONE, BBC TWO, BBC THREE, and BBC FOUR but dont confuse its BBC FOUR channel with CHANNEL 4. Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation. It is publicly owned but, unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and is funded entirely by its commercial activities, including advertising.
Is there any performer who's doing a "dark arts" tour- one promoted as ' magic guaranteed to traumatize every audience"? Tricks revolving around unsettling effects and such? Where everyone buying a ticket must check a waiver before seeing the show? There was a guy back in the 1970's who closed his show by cutting a woman in half. With a massive circular saw. There was plastic hung over the curtains to contain the splatter of meat and blood. Then he invited audience members to come up on stage and file past to check it out for themselves!
A bit of rewriting history from DB! I'm a big fan of his work, but he most certainly did try to present what he did as mentalism. Not only that he had Channel 4 actually promote his shows on their platform under 'science' rather than entertainment! He had folk believeing in the likes of suggestion and nlp, the greatest misdirection artist of modern times!
@@MagicMike-n6u Never had me fooled, but had Channel 4 and the UK public totally bought into the pseudo-science. In the early 2000s Channel 4 did have his show listed as 'science'! They've obviously changed this now
I'm astonished that Darren doesn't talk about the role of class in manipulating people - I'm thinking of episodes in which he forces random pedestrians to give him their wallets. I would claim that some methods only work with working class people, ie people that are used to receiving orders.
I don’t think so. With suggestion you can actually *remove* any class society in people. Aaron Alexander has some thoughts/examples about that in his books (bridge or ant queen I think). with suggestion you can actually dissolve any kind of class society in people. which only proves that it is imposed and that a "farmer", for example, can also speak very eloquently and profoundly with suggestion and vice versa.
@@DerZaubererFN if it's lifelong in the body, you cannot get it out in one performance or trick, the job forms your body and your mind -- it's like if non-famous actors, say in the Colombo series, play famous actors - it doesn't work, you can see it that they cannot play superstars if they are no superstars --
Sorry but class 100% has something to do with it. If he wasn't posh he wouldn't be able to do half the pickpocket stuff (literally just watched some of that). Mind you he did go down to The Den (on the thing I watched) so he must have some massive b0ll0cks!!
This is how a professional interview is done. Be well researched, ask intelligent questions and then sit back and allow the guest to speak. Perfect.
Love Derren!!!! Great interview
Will always watch anything Derren!
Dear Darren Brown,
I just wanted to say that you are a wonderful performer and an excellent artist and magician. Your talent and creativity are truly inspiring.
Best regards,
B Jacobs
Love Derren. Great interview! Thanks.
First Chris Hanowell, now Derren Brown?! Big moves, boys! 🔥💪🏻
Thanks - Derren's dad was my swimming teacher. Sad to hear he died during the covid period.
Great interview. Thanks so much.
Phenomenal interview!!!!! Thank you
I saw him in NYC. Wonderful.
Reading "Notes from a Fellow Traveler" right now. Also just recently purchased a decently priced copy of "Absolute Magic" on ebay partly due to Erik's mention of it on a previous episode. Derren is such a thoughtful and articulate writer for what magic should be. So excited to dive into this episode.
Aloha Friends, I'm a new subscriber and tickled to have had the opportunity to watch Derren's show with you. ♥
Excellent. Thanks.
Derren Brown the OG....legendary
you are just saying truth
id love to meet derren. Just ask him some questions about the mind and about himself, hes really the idiol best friend so warm and friendly.
Fantastic interview! Impressed by how deeply researched you were, your questions were insightful and genuine and provoked a thoughtful response from Derren.
Thank you for this. I’m fairly new to magic, but a long time fan of DB 😊✌️
Derren Brown was an epiphany for me!! He changed my whole perspective of what magic is, and what it can be!!
I guess you don’t know much magic history. He’s doing what Kreskin did for decades! It’s nit new or original.
@@dmontes133 Yes I know about Kreskin and Derren is completely different.
00:29:35 thank me later :)
Edit: Have to say, the lad who is interviewing is very good, so defo worth a watch!
Thank you, we did put the timestamp for the interview in the description as well.
@@penguinmagicshop Oh sorry mate, I didn't realise. Dya want me to delete the comment?
how are you?!Penguin~ this is beautiful traveler- ciao~ 🤓
love this interview
56:47 A bird flies quickly across behind Derren. Or was I hypnotized?
At 57:46 in slow motion something flies across the screen from top right to bottom left behind and close to derrens shoulder, what is that it maybe some kind of insect?
Derren brown didn't come to prominence on the BBC. His shows were on channel 4 in the uk and later netflix.
I thought Channel 4 was apart of the BBC.
From my AI:
Channel 4 is not part of the BBC. Channel 4 is a British public broadcast television channel that is owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a state-owned media company. Channel.
@@eriktait434 No we have to pay a t.v license to watch the bbc (legally) and they have no advertising. Channel 4 is funded by advertising.
Googling shows a channel 4 that's part of the bbc and one that isn't so I think that could be confusing
@@stillnotstill The BBC is a collection of channels, they have among others the tv channels BBC ONE, BBC TWO, BBC THREE, and BBC FOUR but dont confuse its BBC FOUR channel with CHANNEL 4. Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation. It is publicly owned but, unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and is funded entirely by its commercial activities, including advertising.
Is there any performer who's doing a "dark arts" tour- one promoted as ' magic guaranteed to traumatize every audience"? Tricks revolving around unsettling effects and such? Where everyone buying a ticket must check a waiver before seeing the show?
There was a guy back in the 1970's who closed his show by cutting a woman in half. With a massive circular saw. There was plastic hung over the curtains to contain the splatter of meat and blood. Then he invited audience members to come up on stage and file past to check it out for themselves!
That was Ricciardi Jr. he was incredible.
A bit of rewriting history from DB! I'm a big fan of his work, but he most certainly did try to present what he did as mentalism. Not only that he had Channel 4 actually promote his shows on their platform under 'science' rather than entertainment! He had folk believeing in the likes of suggestion and nlp, the greatest misdirection artist of modern times!
Not really, he's always been clear and honest about his work. I don't know how you interpreted it but it was always entertainment to me.
@@MagicMike-n6u Never had me fooled, but had Channel 4 and the UK public totally bought into the pseudo-science. In the early 2000s Channel 4 did have his show listed as 'science'! They've obviously changed this now
2:15 Stop doing that or you’ll go blind
I'm astonished that Darren doesn't talk about the role of class in manipulating people - I'm thinking of episodes in which he forces random pedestrians to give him their wallets. I would claim that some methods only work with working class people, ie people that are used to receiving orders.
*Derren
I don’t think so. With suggestion you can actually *remove* any class society in people. Aaron Alexander has some thoughts/examples about that in his books (bridge or ant queen I think). with suggestion you can actually dissolve any kind of class society in people. which only proves that it is imposed and that a "farmer", for example, can also speak very eloquently and profoundly with suggestion and vice versa.
@@DerZaubererFN if it's lifelong in the body, you cannot get it out in one performance or trick, the job forms your body and your mind -- it's like if non-famous actors, say in the Colombo series, play famous actors - it doesn't work, you can see it that they cannot play superstars if they are no superstars --
Sorry but class 100% has something to do with it. If he wasn't posh he wouldn't be able to do half the pickpocket stuff (literally just watched some of that). Mind you he did go down to The Den (on the thing I watched) so he must have some massive b0ll0cks!!
gg