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DemuMagic New user Canada 18 Posts |
Just posting to see all the different types of patter used with spongeballs during kid's shows. Feel free to post any new/creative ideas you have come up with.
I'll start off: Seeing as both my parents are teachers, and I usually perform for small groups in schools, I begin my spongeball routine that what the math kid's are learning in school is completely wrong (haha). Then I proceed to use the balls as counting tools, and fire off math questions. One ball plus one ball = three. I do a few different vanishes and appearances with that type of patter, then proceed to have a volunteer play some basketball (toss the spongeballs into changebag). I magically switch the balls into ropes, or anything else I will use for my routine and then carry on with the show. Any others...?
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Whiterabbit Loyal user Kevin Mc Lean 278 Posts |
In my opinion, a nice bit of patter for spongeballs comes from Carl Andrew's "Ain't No Mo", which is on a couple (?) of his DVDs.
It's a nice routine, but not educational. The patter I like. It's light hearted, got a pun or two in it, easy to follow, a fair bit happens, it builds nicely and ends with a punchline. It's probably a two minute routine and plays for most audiences. You can use a couple of volunteers in it. I guess your own needs dictate if you'd buy a dvd just for a nice sponge routine, but if you can ever see it performed I'd check it out. Not the most difficult routine, possibly too cute for some, but I think it's got charm.
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elasmac New user Bristol, VA 54 Posts |
When I make SB's dissapear and go to their hands I just tell them the balls really like them.
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Daniel Faith Inner circle Neenah, Wisconsin 1526 Posts |
Ken Scott has a routine called Peanut Butter and Jelly. You can get the script from his website.
I use the names Peanut, Butter and Jelly for my sponge balls too but the routine is way different.
Daniel Faith
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Scott F. Guinn Inner circle "Great Scott!" aka "Palms of Putty" & "Poof Daddy G" 6586 Posts |
Uh, that'd be my routine--unless somebody named Ken Scott stole it.
But I no longer have a website. However, the routine is available as a PDF directly from me for $7.50 via Paypal.
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kenscott Inner circle 1869 Posts |
Not mine. Don't see that on my site????
Scott, Ken Scott stole what?? |
Scott F. Guinn Inner circle "Great Scott!" aka "Palms of Putty" & "Poof Daddy G" 6586 Posts |
That was tongue-in-cheek, Ken. No offense.
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JamesinLA Inner circle Los Angeles 3400 Posts |
Scott's sponge ball routine is wonderful. I bought it, I use it all the time. It kills. I end it a bit differently but it's a great classic structure. Can't be beat. Thanks, Scott. Why no more website?
Jim
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Gideon Sylvan Special user Deerfield, IL 541 Posts |
I think I saw Scott do this a while ago, and liked it. But the memory is a bit blurry.
Scott, did you ever lecture in Illinois? As for what I do, I don`t really have patter or a story, I just like to do it as it is and make jokes and funny things.
You know you are a magician when you have boxes full of lecture notes you have never read, but still are excited about going out and buying more.
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Mushu Loyal user 253 Posts |
Scott's PB&J routine is great, but be aware that it works better with super-soft balls, and you'll also need a purse-frame and a certain gimmick that your local magic dealer may not carry.
If you have balls of different sizes, you can do a sponge bunny routine using balls instead of bunnies. You can say they represent microscopic organisms - so you have papa microscopic organism, and mama microscopic organism ... Or you can hack up your balls a little bit with a pair of scissors and present them as dust-bunnies, at the end showing how they seem to reproduce just like real bunnies. |
Mushu Loyal user 253 Posts |
Just a note to those looking to get into Scott's wonderful sponge-ball routine - he is selling his DVD with the PB&J sponge ball routine in the Café Buy/Sell forum for only $7.50 - limited quantites.
Also includes his ring and rope routine, and his jump rope routine. |
FCpreacher Elite user PA 439 Posts |
To me (and to many others I have performed for) a red sponge sphere looks like a clown nose. So I figure rather than argue that it isn't a clown nose, but a sponge ball (used for what? - I might add - "here is the red sphere made of sponge that I keep in my pocket to amaze you"), I would just call it a clown nose and structure my routine around my short-lived career in the circus. I tell some circus jokes during the routine, give a reason to put one in my hand and one in yours, etc. I think this is one of the few sponge ball routines I have seen that makes sense.
"I haven't always been a magician, you know. I used to work in a Minute-Made factory ... but I got canned ... because I couldn't concentrate. I then attempted to labor in a Bazooka Joe plant ... but I blew it ... and the boss chewed me out. I went back to medical school to become a doctor, but I just didn't have any patients. So I ran off and joined the circus. The ring master first hired me as the human canonball. I shot my mouth off and got fired (I borrowed that last one from Michael Close). He re-hired me with the stipulation that he would demote me to the lowest rung on the ladder and he gave me one of these (introduce clown nose)." etc. FC |
Daniel Faith Inner circle Neenah, Wisconsin 1526 Posts |
Sorry Scott,
It was you I meant to say. Both names had Scott and I got them mixed up. Sorry also to Ken.
Daniel Faith
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DemuMagic New user Canada 18 Posts |
That last routine is hilarious!!!
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MagicB1S Inner circle Knoxville Tenn. 1039 Posts |
I like to save the sponge balls for the heckler in the audience. I invite him on stage and do a routine that usualy keeps him quiet for the rest of the show
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Sammy the Kid Veteran user Southern Illinois 314 Posts |
I introduce one (a red one) as Fred, from Pluto. You can tell the Plutonians from the Martians cause Martians are green (show a green one). Plutonians build big loud colorful spaceships called... clowns. They guide the clowns from a seat on the area we would call a face. Now, some of these spaceships can juggle, some do balloons, but all of 'em come from Outer Space (no offense meant towards any clowns reading this). Then I go into a 3 to 5 minute routine where Fred's friends Marv and Janie join the show, appearing and disappearing all over the place.
Just my take on 'em, Sammy the Kid |
Fred Kirkland New user Ga. 96 Posts |
Hey Ken,
What is the best magic prop you have ever had or did you ever see a great prop that stop you cold. Looking for that special trick or prop Birthday shows. Fred
Fred Kirkland family entertainer & magician
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keeblem Inner circle Essex, UK 1167 Posts |
I use an idea from Mark Leveridge's routine by saying they are created from dust. I pretend to take bits of dust from the children's hair telling them that's what happens when you watch too much TV. I then produce the first ball...
Mark |
MaGiShN46 Loyal user 244 Posts |
In the movie "magic for humans" it has a good trick for sponge balls!
starts with an ordinary drinking straw! |
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