I like how Derren explained the BMX thing. We're living in the age of CGI and tricks don't impress us that much anymore, but when you explain it it's really interesting.
I kinda suspect that he really did want the BMX and the manipulation occurred when Derren got him to write leather jacket. I think you could suggest something strongly enough to make someone write something different down but I'm not sure Simon would have no recollection at all of writing down something he really wanted.
The last trick with Stephen Fry: Derren was performing at a restaurant pre fame and did that trick for a table of patrons, one turned out to be a C4 producer. The rest is history 👍
Is it because he already flashed the King of Diamonds at Stephen Fry somehow earlier in the conversation? I.e. when he (derren) took a sip of his drink, or when the cards came out of the box?
@@briefwechsel I was only half watching it and also though Kd in my head, think it was some verbal cue rather than visual on that basis. Spooky either way haha
Absolutely fantastic! I tried the bmx thing on my Nan and I kept tapping her on the arm everytime that I shouted CAKE and I bought her a cake but unfortunately she wanted a shed...
And I tried it with my ex, but every time I'd tap her arm and say "just the car, that's enough", her divorce lawyer would slap my hand away, and yell "ALIMONY" in her ear. Too bad I didn't have Derren there to pat her lawyers arm and whisper "Jaguar XJ ..."
Notice how Darren reminded him about the feeling of finding the perfect thing, and once he was remembering that feeling he tapped his arm, that associated that feeling with the tap.
The tap that you guys are talking about comes from neurological linguistic programming and that tap is called an anchor a board-certified hypnotist can get that to work every time. And no it's not misdirection😊
@@warartco sort of, in pure effect he reveals completely how the trick he did for Stephen Fry was done, along with some other various tricks he's done off television. But yes he does generally tend to keep his tricks a secret.
So if I quote someone, I'm copying someone else who has qouted the same person? Surely I'm copying the person who I'm qouting. Haha, you really are thick.
Derren looks like a mind-reader, but he's not. He's actually a mind-writer. Whatever choice or thought you think you made on your own, Derren put it in there. Derren knows what card you selected because he made you choose that card. It's amazing, and I wish I could do that as well :) You think you have free will? Not around Derren :)
On the last choice, Derren loudly says "Yes!". Pretending it was about his process, but IMO he was prompting/suggesting to Steven too choose yes? He did! And I knew he would!
After listening to Steve Merchant on XFM for so, so long, I'm 100% certain he died a little inside during that trick, and I want to hug him because of it. The worst part is that Derren knew it too... Also, gender and sexuality aside, I imagine that everyone who sits across from Derren Brown both falls in love with and is terrified of him simultaneously. I feel both of those emotions just watching him onscreen.
@@ModernWelfareThree Haha, they just focused a lot on how...tight with money Steve is. I think the idea of losing even a pound kills him, so I honestly think Derren added in the money stakes just to mess with his mind.
Well, Steve is still upset that Karl "owes him" 50p. Can't imagine what Steve not getting the £1000 must feel like to him. Edit: spelling names is hard...
At around 20:31 - the last trick with Stephy Fry - if you watch Derren's right hand holding the cigarette, you can see him switch it out at the edge of the table for the real card.
I spottet that too, but i spotted something else too in that scene. Not that is has ANYTHING to do with the trick. But look at the the gentlemens right hand(The Actor on the left) at 18:50 as he reach out for the lighter he graps what looks to be a deck of cards, it could be just his cigaret pack. But then the question is. Whats the pack of marlboro doing on the table?
+Thomas Pedersen There was at least 2 takes of the whole scene that were edited together. You can tell, from how the props move on the table, over the multiple top-down shots. The first shot doesn't even have a cigarette pack on the table. I don't know what Stephen pulled out his pocket, but it was likely just his own cigarette pack, and he quickly realised there was still a pack on the table. Also notice how the card's pack moves across the table in the last two top-down shots. Not entirely sure why they did top-down shots in the first place. They're not super necessary... except to show the tricks inner workings - like the well timed top-down shot of Darren throwing the cigarette away. They would've edited that out, if they didn't want you to see it. All in all, there's so many cuts in the whole thing.
@@9Kualalumpur Possibly, as that is suggestion but not an emotional attachment. Although perhaps he can anchor the positivity feelings after amplifying them and root them in the object. And as a lover of the truth, it would be uncharacteristic for Derren to mislead through an explanation presented as honest to the viewer. To his subjects, yes. During the process, yes. Otherwise not his style. But if that's not how he did it, how did he do it? Just saying 'thats not how he did it' has no value.
@@9Kualalumpur That is how he did it, yeah there are loads of bike shaped objects and rotating wheels in the background too but that's also part of it. How do you think it was done?
@@chrispy808 Let's just say it's a subversion. The real trick is the final swerve. EDIT: One little hint. Notice how Simon never recovers the memory of wanting the jacket.
@@chrispy808 i don't think doing that will make him totally forget he wrote leather jacket. that sort of thing could work to influence someone to say something... but not to make him forget what he'd already pre planned to say and had written down
The no/yes thing is one of my favorites, because there's definitely no trick to it. I think its totally forward. Lots of his stuff is based on misdirection, sleight of hand, common mentalism tricks, but that one is just straight up psychology.
Brown throws a hypnotic anchor... Pegg is showing all the signs of being a somnambulist so helping him forget having been a bit more helpful from a prior time wouldn't be too hard a task for an even half decent hypnotist. :-) The waffle is lovely though.
Think if he worked for Scotland Yard , MI5, FBI. I’ll bet he is was approached at least once by a detective stuck on a case, and politely turned it down. I think Derren wants to have fun and spread joy and wonder as well as education. I don’t think he’d like using his skills to solve crimes n stuff. I think Derren prefers to live on the happy side of life and doesn’t wanna go near that stuff.
0:39 Almost certainly swapping the chosen cards for the loaded ones (up his sleeve) here. At 0:43 he does something unnatural with his sleeve, presumably pushing the cards further back.
simple sleight of hand magic trick embellished by darren's hypnotist routine. It's pretty brilliant if you think about it...he is misdirecting you into thinking that his misdirection is hypnotism when it's actually normal misdirection!
@@danielshapiro2472 But Matt Lucus said the 3 cards from the top of his head, so they couldn't have been preloaded after he said them. They were preloaded because Derren had them in an envelope in his pocket. The trick was how did Matt Lucus guess what the cards were? That was nothing to do with slight of hand.
@@RaveyDavey It would have to be a pretty big section in which someone in the background picked out those cards and loaded them. If he was using such obvious camera tricks, surely Matt Lucas and others would have exposed him by now.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you Derren for showing I am not weird or a bit psychic, but that it is my prior unknown mannerisms and observations that have caused impressions that fooled me into wondering if I had a gift even though I do not believe in that. Very refreshing and awesome! (Now I need to figure out this perpetual clock thing in my head)
I just got in a sort of trance watching this video and paying attention to the details. I really thought I was around 5 minutes or less in the video and I was at 16 minutes...
I kinda of got into a trance, too. I was about half way through the video when I realised it was about 20 minutes in and not 5 minutes in. It's really strange how that happens, isn't it??
One thing I love about DB is he never takes shit from people. He utilizes NLP to get people to do exactly what he wants them to do! He's in control! That said, my fave guests were Pegg and Fry. Marvelous reactions.
I think I know how he did the last one with Stephen. If you notice how the rhythm of Stephens head nodding seems to articulate the pronunciation of the king of diamonds. However to be able to read so effectively like that is phenomenal. If you do it yourself and say other cards you notice that you subconsciously change direction and impulsively verbalise those movements. Flabbergasting!
@@campbte85 The last one is an original. It's called "Smoke" and the method is explained in his first book "Pure Effect". Unfortunately, the book has been out of print for over a decade and the cheapest copy on Amazon is over £100, so I don't know it.
It's amazing how you believe everything Brown says about his magical abilities without considering the validity. The guy is an entertainer - most of the stuff he says is complete and utter bullshit.
@@director6799 The issue is not the existence of the concept of suggestibility, the issue is whether or not the narratives presented on Brown's specials are real or fake, or a mixture of the two, and if it is the latter, then how much?
Card, card, card, card, _ _ _ _ _, Brilliant! Or, did Steven impress upon me? I thought his card would be the 10d...I am utterly floored by Derren's seamless mastery.
For the Americans out there, the well known people are: That guy from Dr. Who and Bridesmaids(?) That guy from Ricky Gervais stuff That guy from the new Star Trek stuff That well known guy And that guy you recognize from BBC, seems like a nice bloke.
"Best thing is to ignore them for now, really." I've never immediately fallen in love with a throwaway line so easily. It immediately told me "therefore I need to pay attention to them.... except, no, he actually wants me to focus on them, that 's why he said that, they are a decoy.... except maybe *that's* what he wants me to..." This is some reverse psychology bullcrap, I'm sure, and I'm interested.
I decided to memorize his patter and tried to match the exact physical touches and movements and it worked on 3 males it failed on the 2 females. Weird but has me intrigued hats for sure
astrol4b you’re warm- he goes to shake his hand and when he responds back to shake hands, something else happens instead to confuse the guys brain. Right after this the subliminal suggestions start and repeated various ways. Does the same on stage when a volunteer etc comes up if he wants to start controlling their thoughts. Amazing what can happen in a split second they’re not aware of.
i saw the bmx thing coming from a mile away. if anyone knows/remembers white collar, there was episode with real and fake diamonds and the mc had to convince someone to only check out the real gems by wearing a certain color of tie and using that kind of wordplay. really amazing to see it happen with real people tho
The thing he did with Simon Pegg is called a snap induction, most people think of hypnosis as the swinging watch and you are getting very sleepy, but that's not necessary. When someone reaches out to shake your hand your automatic response is to put your hand out too, you don't have to think, "oh this person is putting out their hand for me to shake I'd better do the same" it's just automatic, but when something other than what you're expecting happens like them grabbing your wrist your brain doesn't know how to react and boom you're in a hypotonic state.(a bit of an oversimplification, but there's plenty of videos on RUclips on snap induction if you're interested)
No offence to you personally but I always find it kind of amazing how willing people are to buy into derren's hype when he's just a magician doing tricks and makes no secret of that, because surely his whole NLP thing is basically a misdirect. The problem with saying that this trick works using a psychological technique is that 1) if you're a magician you'll want to go into the room pretty much certain that the trick will work, while this would be an incredible gamble, and 2) making someone instinctively think of a bike is quite a different thing from making them irreparably lose memories (i.e. of why a leather jacket would be useful, of writing leather jacket etc). In a way, the trick would be more impressive if Simon *remembered* writing leather jacket when he saw it written down, but obviously that's harder to pull off because it requires you to actually change his mind. An alternate hypothesis: Derren and his production crew found out what Simon wrote somehow (this would explain why he needed to write it down several days in advance) so they could prepare the room with the bike and the speech. They would then just need to forge a handwritten 'leather jacket' note and signature (much easier because he's famous), find some moment to swap in the new envelope, and then Derren can go in the room and just let the scene play out
I'm just curious what age groups watch Derren Brown. Comment the number that has your age group in it. 1-(0-12) 2-(13-18) 3-(19-25) 4-(26-30) 5-(31-45) 6-(46-50) 7-(51+)
I watched this years ago but I came back to watch it again. As I was watching it, I said 7 of clubs, 10 of clubs, jack of hearts. Strange. Didn't get them quite right but the last one was spot on for me.
The first one is fairly simple I believe. It is, we the audience, that are being tricked into thinking that Matt doesn’t know what the cards are and is being asked to think of 3 cards. What is actually happening is massive change in perception between what happened and what we think is happening. Imagine there were 2 different tricks filmed. One trick featured Matt knowing what the cards were and had a part where he was asked to recall them. That is what we are seeing. We think Matt is being asked to randomly choose 3 cards. But what was going on was Matt was being asked to remember his 1st, 2nd and 3rd cards that were face down whilst Darren was confusing him. The other trick would be very similar but featured different elements such as Matt shuffling the cards randomly. Then elements from these two different tricks are edited together to form a seemingly impossible trick. Notice the keys and pen move positions throughout. Since the two tricks are similar and both good in their own right, once it is broadcast Matt will have forgotten the details and think it looked how it happened. He would have been told only 1 of tricks would be chosen for broadcast whereas it’s elements from both tricks spliced together to form the impossible
Yes, but he asked him something, of he had to say "no", and he said it with a delay and without being so sure of, as he would be if he wanted to say no for the card. That's why he changed it.
I so want to know how Derren does the hand grip like on Simon Pegg when goes shake his hand he uses left hand to grab his wrist, he did it with the kiddy ghost train guy who absolutely shit himself when he went on the ride himself, Derren is so amazing at mentalism, he really is like no other ive witnessed. Actually as a result ive become fascinated with 19th century magicians as a result too. Bravo Derren !
Aah I know that one. It's a classic misdirection. You see, the trick really isn't making the sausage appear in your mouth. The real trick is making you believe it's just a sausage. :D
9:44 "even though two days before they said "I want x" what ever that is, or a really nice car like a BM - or a X-box , something like that. Something they really wanted" lel
That's so smart! Overstimulate the brain to the point when it doesn't know what to focus at, then you make a tap on the arm for everything you want him to pick up! That extra bit of stimulation makes your brain focus on the above average activity on those certain point, it's like flash driving your brain to make some parts of your binary brain more active. You litterally overload the brain to overload it a bit more to make certain things stick out... Omg i will try to learn this! This is pure genious!
AXELmetroidFAN also going for the handshake but breaking it midway through interrupts brain patterns and makes you docile and suggestible, and he also said "by creating" near when he did it, and it sounded like he said bike instead
Here are my guesses, not to take away from the impressiveness of these top-notch tricks Lucas - card switch, somehow getting Lucas to say a series of cards that ended up matching closely, followed by selection of a packet of cards from many that replicated Lucas' actually selection Merchant - combination of luck, psychology and manipulation Pegg - somehow got Pegg's written selection switched. Required 3rd party help. The only trick where suggestion was definitely not involved despite it being claimed that this was the central element of the trick. Martin ? - blindfold not perfect, and an element of luck Fry - luck and sleight of hand. Possible suggestive element not recorded on tape.
They note was replaced, so obviously they read it. Duh. The subliminal nonsense is just his trademark he uses in many of his tricks and never has anything to do with the trick itself. It's just the "bullshit" explanation.
The trick with Stephen Fry is one of the most wonderful pieces of showmanship I've seen. Personally I'd prefer if Derren didn't explain exactly how he does it because I feel it breaks the spell (tho I can see others feel differently).
Sometimes it is. But for the most part he likes to troll. Like at the end of "Something Wicked this Way Comes" he gives an explanation to the audience how it all worked and it's OBVIOUSSLY bullshit. But it's still pretty funny. Most magicians distract you during a trick, so you pay attention to all the wrong things. Darren just takes it a step further by distracting you even after the trick is over.
bullsquid42 All he does is suggestion and psychological tricks to confuse or implant a "victim" with something. He's a complete master at covering his tracks.
He does that too. But he also uses many classic techniques like sleight of hand. It's a combination of a whole bunch of skills, and in other videos he sais that too. Psychology is a great tool but not a very reliable one. It works for like the thing with the red bike, but in most other cases there's more to it. The human brain is too complex to get an exact result every time. With the red bike he uses a lot of effort and the entire room decoration just to get a single, simple and visual thought. That works. But you can't make someone think of a specific card or number with just a few scentences. It's too abstract and there's no emotional component to it. So there he often uses classical magician's tools or sometimes just plain math. But it's the fact that he's a master in so many fields that makes him amazing and his tricks almost impossible to figure out.
I stopped it at 13:09 and IDK if Brown further reveals how he did it, but honest to God, this is the first time I have seen this particular stunt of his and I guessed he was going to say BMX bike because as I was watching it it became obvious to me that he was using NLP and each time Brown tapped him on the arm or wherever, it was to punch up a particular word or part of a word he was saying. I took note of what those words were as it was going along. I also noticed that he was not just babbling nonsense as he held his other hand to the table. He was locking him in and slightly hypnotizing him, and giving him the very clear suggestion that no matter what he had written down on that piece of paper beforehand, what he REALLY wanted was a BMX tat he had been suggesting to him rater overtly. e hypnotized him into simply believing that that overcame whatever he actually wanted. And then, if you notice, he taps him again and says a few key words to snap him out of the trance just prior to opening the envelope, leaving him with the resonating feeling (or in this case, post-hypnotic suggestion) that indeed he wanted a BMX all along. Just read up on NLP and hypnotism. Any of this can be easily done and is all the time. (Despite beliefs that one cannot be hypnotized against one's will). You most certainly can.....and are.
@Normal Misha Because then you have to explain how someone can forge both his handwriting and signature well enough to fool him while he's looking for anything to explain what could have happened, not to mention switch it into his wallet without him noticing
What he says when he's talking to him is epic.....he says words in a way to make things sound like bike and other things about said bike it's fuckin EPIC
I know this is an old comment, but I noticed that and I was wondering if anyone else noticed. I read the comments to find out and I can't believe it took so many comments to find someone else who caught it. LOL
*Derren puts out 20 pound note*
*Steves eyes buldge with imagined ritches*
Karl woulda been loving that !
riches.... SORRY!!!
Das lanken pissenstreak.
Steve’s eyes are *always* bulging with imagined riches
Brilliant comment. Pissing myself.
I like how Derren explained the BMX thing.
We're living in the age of CGI and tricks don't impress us that much anymore, but when you explain it it's really interesting.
That was probably a false explanation. IMO the explanation was an extended part of the trick
I don't think it was a trick. I think he really did the NLP thing on Simon Pegg. Some people are just more programmable than others.
Jeff O lol... it was a total con. i know how to do it..
I kinda suspect that he really did want the BMX and the manipulation occurred when Derren got him to write leather jacket. I think you could suggest something strongly enough to make someone write something different down but I'm not sure Simon would have no recollection at all of writing down something he really wanted.
Pik Hik
The last trick with Stephen Fry: Derren was performing at a restaurant pre fame and did that trick for a table of patrons, one turned out to be a C4 producer. The rest is history 👍
It's one of the few tricks Derren has revealed in his very early magic books, too. It's a classic.
Is it because he already flashed the King of Diamonds at Stephen Fry somehow earlier in the conversation? I.e. when he (derren) took a sip of his drink, or when the cards came out of the box?
It's all magic. Explanations are superfluous.
@@briefwechsel I was only half watching it and also though Kd in my head, think it was some verbal cue rather than visual on that basis. Spooky either way haha
Here's a clue on how he did it. Look at the colour of the table cloth and the pattern of the creases on it 😉 you're welcome
Absolutely fantastic! I tried the bmx thing on my Nan and I kept tapping her on the arm everytime that I shouted CAKE and I bought her a cake but unfortunately she wanted a shed...
And I tried it with my ex, but every time I'd tap her arm and say "just the car, that's enough", her divorce lawyer would slap my hand away, and yell "ALIMONY" in her ear. Too bad I didn't have Derren there to pat her lawyers arm and whisper "Jaguar XJ ..."
Thats a mis-direction, certainly not how he did it.
😂😂😂
Notice how Darren reminded him about the feeling of finding the perfect thing, and once he was remembering that feeling he tapped his arm, that associated that feeling with the tap.
The tap that you guys are talking about comes from neurological linguistic programming and that tap is called an anchor a board-certified hypnotist can get that to work every time. And no it's not misdirection😊
Aw matt lucas' face bless him, literally the expression of a child in wonder.
The pure excitement on Derren's face when he was about to trick Stephen Fry was adorable.
Has Derren done anything for Penn and Teller?
Homosexual energy
No he hasn't. Derryn is extremely protective of his craft. Even his books reveal nothing of his recorded tricks
@@warartco sort of, in pure effect he reveals completely how the trick he did for Stephen Fry was done, along with some other various tricks he's done off television. But yes he does generally tend to keep his tricks a secret.
@@warartco wonder hows zee craft getting along lol
'I ain't afraid of no man', except the two DBs: Derren Brown and David Blaine.
Danny Boyle, David Brent, Doc Brown, and Dolly Barton
And Dynamo Boy
@@adam007ize Dick Butkus David Bowie Daniel Boone Donnie Brasco and the Doobie Brothers
Dirk Bigler
Ded Best and Darold Bipman
DB cooper too? Don’t know if that counts
Merchant was gutted about the money
Eyes bulging with imagined riches.
It's a quote from Steve and Ricky's radio show you muppet.
So if I quote someone, I'm copying someone else who has qouted the same person? Surely I'm copying the person who I'm qouting. Haha, you really are thick.
eyes bulging with imagined riches!
Eyes bulging with imagined riches!
20:33 *Notice how Derren puts the cigarette down and then puts the card in his mouth.*
Last one, you can see when he switches the cigarette and the card. I love that he would keep this visible so we can see. Great.
Simon Brooke but that doesnt explain how he got Stephen to choose that card
Derren looks like a mind-reader, but he's not. He's actually a mind-writer. Whatever choice or thought you think you made on your own, Derren put it in there. Derren knows what card you selected because he made you choose that card.
It's amazing, and I wish I could do that as well :) You think you have free will? Not around Derren :)
He’s both and more.
Nah. He dresses it up like that but 99% is standard mentalist magic.
On the last choice, Derren loudly says "Yes!". Pretending it was about his process, but IMO he was prompting/suggesting to Steven too choose yes? He did! And I knew he would!
After listening to Steve Merchant on XFM for so, so long, I'm 100% certain he died a little inside during that trick, and I want to hug him because of it. The worst part is that Derren knew it too...
Also, gender and sexuality aside, I imagine that everyone who sits across from Derren Brown both falls in love with and is terrified of him simultaneously. I feel both of those emotions just watching him onscreen.
Can you elaborate a bit? I loved Ricky & Steve's show, but it was a long time ago...
@@ModernWelfareThree Haha, they just focused a lot on how...tight with money Steve is. I think the idea of losing even a pound kills him, so I honestly think Derren added in the money stakes just to mess with his mind.
@@thomaswiggles Hahaha, vaguely recall that, thanks for reply!
His eyes really were bulging at this point with the imagined riches.
Well, Steve is still upset that Karl "owes him" 50p. Can't imagine what Steve not getting the £1000 must feel like to him. Edit: spelling names is hard...
At around 20:31 - the last trick with Stephy Fry - if you watch Derren's right hand holding the cigarette, you can see him switch it out at the edge of the table for the real card.
Shiftless Drifter lol true
Shiftless Drifter damn he does it so fast
I spottet that too, but i spotted something else too in that scene. Not that is has ANYTHING to do with the trick. But look at the the gentlemens right hand(The Actor on the left) at 18:50 as he reach out for the lighter he graps what looks to be a deck of cards, it could be just his cigaret pack. But then the question is. Whats the pack of marlboro doing on the table?
Shiftless Drifter great spot man!
+Thomas Pedersen There was at least 2 takes of the whole scene that were edited together. You can tell, from how the props move on the table, over the multiple top-down shots. The first shot doesn't even have a cigarette pack on the table. I don't know what Stephen pulled out his pocket, but it was likely just his own cigarette pack, and he quickly realised there was still a pack on the table. Also notice how the card's pack moves across the table in the last two top-down shots.
Not entirely sure why they did top-down shots in the first place. They're not super necessary... except to show the tricks inner workings - like the well timed top-down shot of Darren throwing the cigarette away. They would've edited that out, if they didn't want you to see it. All in all, there's so many cuts in the whole thing.
For once explaining a magic trick was 10x more awesome than the actual trick, which was absolutely incredible to begin with.
Damn.
And the real trick is that the explanation is a trick in itself, that's not how he did it
@@9Kualalumpur Possibly, as that is suggestion but not an emotional attachment. Although perhaps he can anchor the positivity feelings after amplifying them and root them in the object. And as a lover of the truth, it would be uncharacteristic for Derren to mislead through an explanation presented as honest to the viewer. To his subjects, yes. During the process, yes. Otherwise not his style. But if that's not how he did it, how did he do it? Just saying 'thats not how he did it' has no value.
@@9Kualalumpur That is how he did it, yeah there are loads of bike shaped objects and rotating wheels in the background too but that's also part of it. How do you think it was done?
@@chrispy808 Let's just say it's a subversion. The real trick is the final swerve.
EDIT: One little hint. Notice how Simon never recovers the memory of wanting the jacket.
@@chrispy808 i don't think doing that will make him totally forget he wrote leather jacket. that sort of thing could work to influence someone to say something... but not to make him forget what he'd already pre planned to say and had written down
The no/yes thing is one of my favorites, because there's definitely no trick to it. I think its totally forward. Lots of his stuff is based on misdirection, sleight of hand, common mentalism tricks, but that one is just straight up psychology.
Brown throws a hypnotic anchor... Pegg is showing all the signs of being a somnambulist so helping him forget having been a bit more helpful from a prior time wouldn't be too hard a task for an even half decent hypnotist. :-) The waffle is lovely though.
This guy is brilliant. Just saw his Netflix show and I'm hooked.Binge watching everything I can find
The Simon Pegg one is really amazing. Darren Brown is probably one of the most dangerous people alive today
Think if he worked for Scotland Yard , MI5, FBI.
I’ll bet he is was approached at least once by a detective stuck on a case, and politely turned it down.
I think Derren wants to have fun and spread joy and wonder as well as education.
I don’t think he’d like using his skills to solve crimes n stuff.
I think Derren prefers to live on the happy side of life and doesn’t wanna go near that stuff.
Derren derren derren your voice is aesthetically soothing to my brain
0:39 Almost certainly swapping the chosen cards for the loaded ones (up his sleeve) here. At 0:43 he does something unnatural with his sleeve, presumably pushing the cards further back.
simple sleight of hand magic trick embellished by darren's hypnotist routine. It's pretty brilliant if you think about it...he is misdirecting you into thinking that his misdirection is hypnotism when it's actually normal misdirection!
@@danielshapiro2472 But Matt Lucus said the 3 cards from the top of his head, so they couldn't have been preloaded after he said them. They were preloaded because Derren had them in an envelope in his pocket. The trick was how did Matt Lucus guess what the cards were?
That was nothing to do with slight of hand.
@@fredjimbob2962yeah but did he really? Or did they not show us a section?
@@RaveyDavey It would have to be a pretty big section in which someone in the background picked out those cards and loaded them. If he was using such obvious camera tricks, surely Matt Lucas and others would have exposed him by now.
That tape recorder in the back in Simon Pegg's one is such an indication that he's trying to influence wheels turning
Incredible!!! I'm from Sweden and didn't know about this incredible artist. I'm now a new fan! ❤️
Please tell me u have got the video when u freaked out Karl Pilkinton?
no such video
Lol, I've seen this video before - but I got here today after a fruitless effort to find the Pilkington video. How annoying.
are you sure theres a video of it ? i know they talked of him meeting Derren on the podcasts, maybe its put a false memory into you ?
There is no video. You are remembering Karl talking about the experience but there is no video of it.
Wait, WHAT? I need to see it!
I love getting the occasional glimpse into how all this stuff works, like the red spots on the package containing the bike
If you really want to check if someone is blindfolded, pretend to slap, / punch them and if they flinch. HOORAY! They're not blindfolded.
That's actually a good idea, although I imagine it's a trick that only works once on a magician / performer that uses a fake blindfold.
Or just actually punch them, that's my choice!
Yup!
@@gravesbroderick And if they dodge, they could see through the blindfold?
When Derren was asking simon "Are you sure, did you want .. questions" I was like "hey, stop bullying the nerd."
Steve's eyes bulged with imagined riches
hello fellow KP addict !!! :) i know that phrase from anywhere haha
haha im glad to see KP can bring people together.
'KP Looks After Me'
From the bottom of my heart, thank you Derren for showing I am not weird or a bit psychic, but that it is my prior unknown mannerisms and observations that have caused impressions that fooled me into wondering if I had a gift even though I do not believe in that. Very refreshing and awesome! (Now I need to figure out this perpetual clock thing in my head)
I'd like to hear more about your gift, Sir.
This is Ericsonian taken to the ultimate extreme! His ability to read and manipulate is unparalleled. I was Mesmerised! Great presentation.
seen derren live twice and his show is mind blowing
People don't realise how good of a painter DERREN BROWN is..
I just got in a sort of trance watching this video and paying attention to the details. I really thought I was around 5 minutes or less in the video and I was at 16 minutes...
I just realized when I accidentaly touched the reproduction bar...
I kinda of got into a trance, too. I was about half way through the video when I realised it was about 20 minutes in and not 5 minutes in. It's really strange how that happens, isn't it??
@Monica Merino fuck off
Yup, I was thinking I have watched 8-10 minutes and I was at 19.😅
One thing I love about DB is he never takes shit from people. He utilizes NLP to get people to do exactly what he wants them to do! He's in control!
That said, my fave guests were Pegg and Fry. Marvelous reactions.
I think I know how he did the last one with Stephen. If you notice how the rhythm of Stephens head nodding seems to articulate the pronunciation of the king of diamonds.
However to be able to read so effectively like that is phenomenal.
If you do it yourself and say other cards you notice that you subconsciously change direction and impulsively verbalise those movements.
Flabbergasting!
That card one at the end... amazing
Is that final "mind read" an original? If not... Anyone know the name of it (not how it is done of course)
@@campbte85 The last one is an original. It's called "Smoke" and the method is explained in his first book "Pure Effect". Unfortunately, the book has been out of print for over a decade and the cheapest copy on Amazon is over £100, so I don't know it.
I love Stephen Fry's reaction. "Fuck off!" Lovely.
ita amazing how the human brain works and most of us havnt a clue lol
It's amazing how you believe everything Brown says about his magical abilities without considering the validity. The guy is an entertainer - most of the stuff he says is complete and utter bullshit.
ajnode True, he says he likes to mix magic and psychology, still cool though and he tricks people
@@ajnode its called neuro linguistics
@@director6799 The issue is not the existence of the concept of suggestibility, the issue is whether or not the narratives presented on Brown's specials are real or fake, or a mixture of the two, and if it is the latter, then how much?
He's inspired by some psychological stuff, like creating false memories, but he takes it too far that it's nowhere near believeable.
Card, card, card, card, _ _ _ _ _, Brilliant! Or, did Steven impress upon me? I thought his card would be the 10d...I am utterly floored by Derren's seamless mastery.
Frist trick is just a beauty.
Thanks for the upload Derren (or rather Derren's minions), never fails to amaze me!
5:58 "YES.. I'm gonna change that, for that" I see what you did there Derren :)
Misdirection rather than suggestion, am i right?
He purposely emphasised ‘yes’ as a red herring to Steve would pick it.
"Yes Im Jewish" - " Jack of Diamonds" 🤣
Is it really that simple?
For the Americans out there, the well known people are:
That guy from Dr. Who and Bridesmaids(?)
That guy from Ricky Gervais stuff
That guy from the new Star Trek stuff
That well known guy
And that guy you recognize from BBC, seems like a nice bloke.
The British Psychiatrist from Bones...
I legit had a bmx bike in my head too when he was rambling on about how he "bikes" gift
video starts at 0:00 thank me later
mccall gamer overused comment.
Drowning Oreo true
overused reaction to a simple youtube comment
Overuse of overuse multiple exponentially. AH HAH!
Kenny McCall lmao 😂😂
Matt Lucas didn't put him " Under...." LMFAO 😂
"Best thing is to ignore them for now, really."
I've never immediately fallen in love with a throwaway line so easily.
It immediately told me "therefore I need to pay attention to them.... except, no, he actually wants me to focus on them, that 's why he said that, they are a decoy.... except maybe *that's* what he wants me to..." This is some reverse psychology bullcrap, I'm sure, and I'm interested.
15:50 can anyone tell me the source of this music, please?
I decided to memorize his patter and tried to match the exact physical touches and movements and it worked on 3 males it failed on the 2 females. Weird but has me intrigued hats for sure
2 females failed for BMX?
I want a hat for some reason
Did you do the weird hand gesture in the beginning? Because it's supposed to induce a trance.
Hmmm....hats.....
astrol4b you’re warm- he goes to shake his hand and when he responds back to shake hands, something else happens instead to confuse the guys brain. Right after this the subliminal suggestions start and repeated various ways. Does the same on stage when a volunteer etc comes up if he wants to start controlling their thoughts. Amazing what can happen in a split second they’re not aware of.
i saw the bmx thing coming from a mile away. if anyone knows/remembers white collar, there was episode with real and fake diamonds and the mc had to convince someone to only check out the real gems by wearing a certain color of tie and using that kind of wordplay. really amazing to see it happen with real people tho
Is it just me or is Derren completely smitten with Stephen Fry? He looks at him like he fell in love with him.
I think anyone would be
The 2 of them are Queers
Derren, I think your magic has followed me in my personal life. Teach me more. Thank you!!
Derren is one scary dude 😂
haha the one with Simon Pegg, bike gifts, handle bar none, to saddle. It's crazy how powerful suggestion is.
Bmx one was all about the room... there were a bunch of circles paired together that were red, hell even the tape thing was moving 🤷🏽♂️
It was also about the word play. Notice touching him on the shoulder and the words he uses.
"Handle, bar.."
"Two-tired bottle of wine"
"Bike creating"
"BM- an Xbox"
That's not how this trick works-- that explanation is part of the misdirection
He was also listing thing "A new car, bm(x)box"
That was eerie, wasn't it?
Stephen's eyes bulging with imagined riches 4:52
The first segment, HOW did Derren know which cards he picked, since it was obviously picked completely at random?
Swapped them for 3 of his own
Oh I wish I could hear karls thoughts on the Steven one. Especially when he bought the money out
0:00 Agent 47 Really let himself go.
The thing he did with Simon Pegg is called a snap induction, most people think of hypnosis as the swinging watch and you are getting very sleepy, but that's not necessary. When someone reaches out to shake your hand your automatic response is to put your hand out too, you don't have to think, "oh this person is putting out their hand for me to shake I'd better do the same" it's just automatic, but when something other than what you're expecting happens like them grabbing your wrist your brain doesn't know how to react and boom you're in a hypotonic state.(a bit of an oversimplification, but there's plenty of videos on RUclips on snap induction if you're interested)
No offence to you personally but I always find it kind of amazing how willing people are to buy into derren's hype when he's just a magician doing tricks and makes no secret of that, because surely his whole NLP thing is basically a misdirect. The problem with saying that this trick works using a psychological technique is that 1) if you're a magician you'll want to go into the room pretty much certain that the trick will work, while this would be an incredible gamble, and 2) making someone instinctively think of a bike is quite a different thing from making them irreparably lose memories (i.e. of why a leather jacket would be useful, of writing leather jacket etc). In a way, the trick would be more impressive if Simon *remembered* writing leather jacket when he saw it written down, but obviously that's harder to pull off because it requires you to actually change his mind.
An alternate hypothesis: Derren and his production crew found out what Simon wrote somehow (this would explain why he needed to write it down several days in advance) so they could prepare the room with the bike and the speech. They would then just need to forge a handwritten 'leather jacket' note and signature (much easier because he's famous), find some moment to swap in the new envelope, and then Derren can go in the room and just let the scene play out
@@LemonJeffersonexactly.
I wish someone would look at me the way Derren looks at Steven :P
I wish these always explained how he does these things. I can tell a lot, but not always. The BMX bike trick was hilarious.
I'm just curious what age groups watch Derren Brown. Comment the number that has your age group in it.
1-(0-12)
2-(13-18)
3-(19-25)
4-(26-30)
5-(31-45)
6-(46-50)
7-(51+)
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why would u do this??
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I'm just curious if Derren Brown has a specific audience that watches him, although he is entertaining for most ages.
that is so true
I watched this years ago but I came back to watch it again. As I was watching it, I said 7 of clubs, 10 of clubs, jack of hearts. Strange. Didn't get them quite right but the last one was spot on for me.
Same plus I hope he's got newer Episodes becaise I'll be binge watching them all day
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20:30 watch derren's right hand as he switches the cigaret for a burnt king of hearts.
Just realized there is a diamomd shape on the table that fry is sitting, and the card beside the king of hearts is a diamond
The Stephen Fry one was boss.
I was playing along with the last trick and genuinely was thinking of the king of diamonds 😭
True fact.Darren was Hogwarts top student until Harry arrived
The first one is fairly simple I believe. It is, we the audience, that are being tricked into thinking that Matt doesn’t know what the cards are and is being asked to think of 3 cards. What is actually happening is massive change in perception between what happened and what we think is happening. Imagine there were 2 different tricks filmed. One trick featured Matt knowing what the cards were and had a part where he was asked to recall them. That is what we are seeing. We think Matt is being asked to randomly choose 3 cards. But what was going on was Matt was being asked to remember his 1st, 2nd and 3rd cards that were face down whilst Darren was confusing him. The other trick would be very similar but featured different elements such as Matt shuffling the cards randomly. Then elements from these two different tricks are edited together to form a seemingly impossible trick. Notice the keys and pen move positions throughout. Since the two tricks are similar and both good in their own right, once it is broadcast Matt will have forgotten the details and think it looked how it happened. He would have been told only 1 of tricks would be chosen for broadcast whereas it’s elements from both tricks spliced together to form the impossible
did anyone notice that Steve got the last one right he said it would be yes and it was
Yes, but he asked him something, of he had to say "no", and he said it with a delay and without being so sure of, as he would be if he wanted to say no for the card. That's why he changed it.
Simon Pegg looks so giddy and bewildered
5:40 eyes bulging with imagined riches.
I so want to know how Derren does the hand grip like on Simon Pegg when goes shake his hand he uses left hand to grab his wrist, he did it with the kiddy ghost train guy who absolutely shit himself when he went on the ride himself, Derren is so amazing at mentalism, he really is like no other ive witnessed. Actually as a result ive become fascinated with 19th century magicians as a result too. Bravo Derren !
What madness is this?!!😮
When mental suggestion meets a card shark.
mat lucas is adorable.
no. just no.
im sure that when derren explains the how its not but it is convincing and plausible
He'll convince anyone who's willing to keep listening to him, failing to walk away...
The Steven merchant yes no game was simple psychology & word play, still impressive seeing it put into action so effortlessly
Derren once made a sausage appear in my mouth
Aah I know that one. It's a classic misdirection. You see, the trick really isn't making the sausage appear in your mouth. The real trick is making you believe it's just a sausage. :D
:-D
The real trick was making him think it was his idea
- "Don't try to bend the sausage, it's impossible,
Instead try to realize the truth
- What truth?
- There is no sausage"
@@primalpunk2958 genuinely lol.
Am I the only one who had to rewind back to the bike convo after it was explained to see if I could pick out all the words and hints?
9:44 "even though two days before they said "I want x" what ever that is, or a really nice car like a BM - or a X-box , something like that. Something they really wanted" lel
That's so smart! Overstimulate the brain to the point when it doesn't know what to focus at, then you make a tap on the arm for everything you want him to pick up! That extra bit of stimulation makes your brain focus on the above average activity on those certain point, it's like flash driving your brain to make some parts of your binary brain more active. You litterally overload the brain to overload it a bit more to make certain things stick out... Omg i will try to learn this! This is pure genious!
AXELmetroidFAN also going for the handshake but breaking it midway through interrupts brain patterns and makes you docile and suggestible, and he also said "by creating" near when he did it, and it sounded like he said bike instead
Here are my guesses, not to take away from the impressiveness of these top-notch tricks
Lucas - card switch, somehow getting Lucas to say a series of cards that ended up matching closely, followed by selection of a packet of cards from many that replicated Lucas' actually selection
Merchant - combination of luck, psychology and manipulation
Pegg - somehow got Pegg's written selection switched. Required 3rd party help. The only trick where suggestion was definitely not involved despite it being claimed that this was the central element of the trick.
Martin ? - blindfold not perfect, and an element of luck
Fry - luck and sleight of hand. Possible suggestive element not recorded on tape.
8:50 It's the handshake thing he talked about on Joe Rogan!
14:51 Eyyy! Its LaFayette of the Quenchingly McQuaffen brothers!
OMG MATT LUCAS!
What music at 15:38 ? Tell me please....
Not sure, but the composers are Tom and Rachel Morrison. Probably copyright protected by Channel 4 so we'll never get access to it.
it's dream by Dizzee rascal
The BMX thing really shows you how advertising can sneakliy get you to buy what they want you to...
They note was replaced, so obviously they read it. Duh. The subliminal nonsense is just his trademark he uses in many of his tricks and never has anything to do with the trick itself. It's just the "bullshit" explanation.
The trick with Stephen Fry is one of the most wonderful pieces of showmanship I've seen. Personally I'd prefer if Derren didn't explain exactly how he does it because I feel it breaks the spell (tho I can see others feel differently).
100% not the first time martin kemp has blindfolded somebody ....
Weird...when he was with Simon Pegg, I was thinking of a bike because of the wheels turning within Simon's view and all the circles everywhere.
There's just one question - how?!
I just know one thing: The tricks never work the way he "explains" them ^^
But I kinda love that he's such a troll.
bullsquid42 They do, it's just he's completely mastered it. It's not AS simple as he makes it, but his stuff is just suggestion.
Sometimes it is. But for the most part he likes to troll. Like at the end of "Something Wicked this Way Comes" he gives an explanation to the audience how it all worked and it's OBVIOUSSLY bullshit. But it's still pretty funny.
Most magicians distract you during a trick, so you pay attention to all the wrong things. Darren just takes it a step further by distracting you even after the trick is over.
bullsquid42 All he does is suggestion and psychological tricks to confuse or implant a "victim" with something. He's a complete master at covering his tracks.
He does that too. But he also uses many classic techniques like sleight of hand. It's a combination of a whole bunch of skills, and in other videos he sais that too. Psychology is a great tool but not a very reliable one. It works for like the thing with the red bike, but in most other cases there's more to it. The human brain is too complex to get an exact result every time. With the red bike he uses a lot of effort and the entire room decoration just to get a single, simple and visual thought. That works.
But you can't make someone think of a specific card or number with just a few scentences. It's too abstract and there's no emotional component to it. So there he often uses classical magician's tools or sometimes just plain math. But it's the fact that he's a master in so many fields that makes him amazing and his tricks almost impossible to figure out.
After listening to the BMX thing, go back to Steve Merchant (second guy with glasses) and listen *closely* what Derren is saying 😁
I stopped it at 13:09 and IDK if Brown further reveals how he did it, but honest to God, this is the first time I have seen this particular stunt of his and I guessed he was going to say BMX bike because as I was watching it it became obvious to me that he was using NLP and each time Brown tapped him on the arm or wherever, it was to punch up a particular word or part of a word he was saying. I took note of what those words were as it was going along. I also noticed that he was not just babbling nonsense as he held his other hand to the table. He was locking him in and slightly hypnotizing him, and giving him the very clear suggestion that no matter what he had written down on that piece of paper beforehand, what he REALLY wanted was a BMX tat he had been suggesting to him rater overtly. e hypnotized him into simply believing that that overcame whatever he actually wanted. And then, if you notice, he taps him again and says a few key words to snap him out of the trance just prior to opening the envelope, leaving him with the resonating feeling (or in this case, post-hypnotic suggestion) that indeed he wanted a BMX all along. Just read up on NLP and hypnotism. Any of this can be easily done and is all the time. (Despite beliefs that one cannot be hypnotized against one's will). You most certainly can.....and are.
He had written his signature over the flap of the small envelope.
@Normal Misha Because then you have to explain how someone can forge both his handwriting and signature well enough to fool him while he's looking for anything to explain what could have happened, not to mention switch it into his wallet without him noticing
What he says when he's talking to him is epic.....he says words in a way to make things sound like bike and other things about said bike it's fuckin EPIC
Communication skills= Derren Brown XD
12:10 that awkward moment when you miss out the r in leather 😂😂
Se7en 7 well spotted !
I know this is an old comment, but I noticed that and I was wondering if anyone else noticed. I read the comments to find out and I can't believe it took so many comments to find someone else who caught it. LOL
The mind boggles 🤣🤣🤣🤣Brilliant
the second guy looks crazy
It's wheatley from portal 2. He's also the writing partner of ricky gervais
He is so elegant.