I saw a guy on TV called 'Paul Zenon'
I have been told he is a card expert.

Can some one tell me where I can buy his card material?

I wouldn't call him a 'card expert' not at all
but he does have abook out called 100 ways to win a tenner, that may be to your liking, as far as published card material, I am unaware of any

Tom

From what I've seen of Paul he's a great magician that knocks Bore Boy Blaine into a cocked hat.

Dunno about being a card expert tho. It's not too difficult to fold and palm a card to be produced out of some *issheads kebab at 3am in the morning! I should know I've done it!

He lives in Brighton, hes a comedian aswell, he's got a good balance, had a few specials on TV, nothin published as far as I know... absolutely top lad tho.

A lot of bar and pub magic, and if you want a judge of how good he is... find me a performance where his audience aren't left giggling

He has 2 books, but they aren't magic books:

100 Ways to Win a Tenner - which is full of pub/bar bets and stunts.

and

Dirty Tricks - which contains practical jokes and pranks to play on people.

Yes PZ's not exactly a card worker - certainly not the UK's card star.

Very much the con/scam Magician - but for specialists in cards look elsewhere.

I would say micheal vincent is one of our uk card star's and I think he's got some posts on this forum,paul zennon is however a very good and entertaining magician who is a joy to watch.

TV is a funny media, in case of they show magic, only people who are doing magic can judge.. (that's a statement!)
The poor unlookers don't have the slightest chance, they might swallow all the sillyness rough.

Paul Zenon has shown he can do a lot of stuff well, but I dislike too much help from the video camera, it's not magic, it is fraud cheating the onlookers..same goes for a lot of David Blains stuff..

Magic can be great and doesn't need the help of a camera, as long as they don't take a shot from the back right into your hand holding a palmed onject ready for the load, they do the contrary, the zoom away when the work is done, right into the face of a spec instead on the magician doing his stuff, they sometimes show the start of a routine, then the climax/finish of it..and they use helpers to take the palmed card from the performers hand to place it in unexpected/impossible places..inside a roll of bread at the nearest baker, inside a can of conserves inside a jewellers window..what's next?

FRAUD!

Under these circumstances anybody can make the world vanish..
Give me the Paul Daniels shows instead, he never agreed to that kind of fraudy trickery..he did the real work on TV...respect!...

TV is a special media, in general to much fraud and misinformation!

The above mentioned books can be purchased at magictricks.co.uk

I agree with you about Paul Daniels. Paul was walking up walls for real before Kriss Angel could pee straight. A truly talented performer.

I like Paul Zenon, both of his books are pretty good. Full of pub type tricks.
He is a very funny comedian also.

I saw him once in the comedy store and got out a loop of wood attached to a rope. He then put a pint of beer inside the loop and walked into the audience and swung the loop back and forward until he was swinging the whole thing in complete circles!

I like the way he isn't afraid to show things going wrong too, he had a Christmas special a little while back, and placed a beer mat on top of a pint of beer and turned it upside down over a guys head and took the beer mat away. He completely messed up and the whole beer went over this poor guys head. To be honest, he probably got a better reaction than if the trick went to plan!!

I love Paul Zenons stuff, he is a great magiican.

About taking help from TV..
Well, the good thing about TV is that the spectators is not there and there is a lot of things you can hide and do. Why not take the chance?

What is magic? Not just a bunch of secrets, it is entertainment.
Did laymen find the specials entertaining and magicial EVEN THOUGH he
"cheated" a bit? YES!

Only magicians seem to concerned about magicians using TV to cheat.
As long as you know the person is not 100% a fraud, I think it is fine.

Paul is a very good performer and his pranks are hilarous. I have only seen 4 of his episodes as to call them. One he did in stockholm, a halloween one, one which I only remember a few things from (LONG ago.) And a short clip I got sent on MSN with a few performances.

I would love to have all his specials, performance dvd: s of that kind are rare though. :/

Paul Zenon is a good an versatile performer.
Still I hate the TV-supportet stuff.

Thing is, that one doesn't have to be a magician at all, not even a bad one, to make cars vansih, cards changing places, CTTT, whatever.

TV can do it all, just use an medicore actor and se a real magician perform an effect..
TV can duplicate it all, just by using their usual tricks of the bizz.
THAT's what annoys me.

Also, a mixture between the real stuff and TV-trickery, IF it is discovered by the normal TV-watcher, will lessen the impact the performer made, because then 'they' can say, *Oh well, it is all filmtrickery*..and this actually also harms the reputation of the performer..

It is OK to get a tiny help by a camera NOT precicely zooming it on the hand that does a secret move the moment it does it, but instead give the whole picture of the performer, but it is NOT OK to let the performer *drop* stuff he normally has to ditch just out of the frame of the picture.

Just my thoughts on Magic and TV...Magic is an art, TV is fraud and misinformation, at least in far too many incidents/happenings..

The same goes for the newspapers.
When Fred Kaps, many years back, was doing his Saltpour on a conevntion covered by a newspaper reporter, the stupid guy posted in his review, that Fred Kaps poured almost tons of salt out of his hand and he was standing almost up to his knees into salt.

A such review, as good as it might sound at the first moment, is a bad thing and can only hurt the performer later, because if any of the reader later is watching him doing the saltpour, he nevertheless will be impressed as anybody would be seeing FK work, but he also will be dissapointed and wonder, WHY FK didn't go an and on and produced salt standing in a pile up to his knees.

It's possible the reporter got that imagination, but I don't believe in it..it's the usual rubbish reporters do write...

Basic feeling is, one can't trust reports in newspapar the slightest..

I well recall a lot of other incidents where I was present and these incidents later got mentioned in a newspaper (non-magic stuff) and the report of these incidents where very wrong!
Let me say it that way, newspapers/reporters are doing a sloppy, superficial work, in far too many, if not MOST cases..
JMHO..

He's got a new harback book 'Street Magic' out this summer

I saw him perform live only last week and I will say this

He is the BEST stand up magician I have ever seen.

Sure, I knew every single routine that he did by heart but he won his tough aussie audience over in SECONDS and kept them amazed for over an hour!

To add to Werner's post. I read in a film magazine about 10 years ago something that stuck with me. The interviewee was asked the standard question about whether press coverage bothers him. He asked that if you think about it, when have you ever seen an article in the newspaper about an event that you actually had firsthand knowledge of did they get the details correct. He suggested that it never happens, and in my experience that's been true. Yet we tend to trust the accuracy of the stories we don't have firsthand knowledge of.

A national UK newspaper once called me a maths genius...

Back on point, I like Paul Zenon, very funny man. It's not in his credits on IMDB but didn't he used to work as a childrens television presenter years back (with a magical element). Interestingly according to IMDB he seems to be getting work in dictionary corner on Countdown.

Didn't he used to do How2 on ITV years ago? or a program similar to it anyway.

Entertainer-yes,Funny-yes,Card star-im afraid not!oh unless you mean using tr*ck d*cks,in that case -yes.

All the best
DADE

Tr*ck d*cks, ahh you gotta love magicians!

The kids show was called tricks and tracks if I remember and he co presented it with Sally Gray