Tombola, great vid!

it has the takagi finale (I don't know if is original from Takagi) along with the "even ropes" gag.

I like the idea of making the spectator a hero. It's great for applauses.

The whole Takagi routine is excellent, I really like sliding a knot from the centre, and then back to untie it and continue with two ropes.

Copperfield's routine with the ropes was based, with permission, on my Comedy Four Ring Routine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-C10zSiz9o

This was the first routine to use the comedy premise of the spectator pretending to keep up with the magician.

Chuck Fayne has also created a wonderful routine for the color-changing scarves with a "you do as I do" premise where the assisting spectator pretends to keep up with the performer. It is also based, with permission, on my routine.