Hello everyone! I hope everyone is doing well and living a great life! Didn't the Magic Café' use to have a search engine? I am wanting to create a 'list' for my own use of 'one liners' that have anything to do with rope effects! The rope effects that I currently perform are:
Classic Cut & Restored
Hand Lasso
Appearing Knots
Eye of the Needle
Vanishing Knot
Professor's Nightmare
Ropes Thru Spectator
That's basically it, all old school stuff, nothing fancy! My primary objective is to see what others have to offer, then perhaps cultivate some one liners from those submitted!
Regards, Lynchini

The search engine on the Café has been temporarily shut down.

There is a site called searchthemagiccafe.com

Take a look at this thread:
<http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=16616&forum=106>

Murf

Temporary. Def: Time is relative. Will everything be as "fun" or educational without it?

I'm really impressed with some new stuff on Aldo Columbini's DVD's

At $10 each you can't go wrong. Great ring on rope effects also if you want to go in that direction.

Do the funny lines work without the accent?
I have found Aldo to have borrowed a lot from past performers.
Probably new to you. But, the price is right. I have taken his advice there and have a lot of $10 stuff as well.

Is a one-liner a magician who uses one rope?

With the name Lynchini do you do a noose through the neck illusion? Sounds like a natural to me!

I thought a one-liner was a stiff rope effect

Which reminds me to ask, has anyone ever used the stiff rope effect as an "adult" gag, e.g. revealing the "powers" of a female member of the audience? Might be something that would fall flat and actually offend some people, but it would surprise me if nobody had ever tried it.

Woland

I have a line... "you can always tell a magician that uses V****a!" Rope shown rigid. "Only trouble it doesn't last." Rope goes limp. BADA BOOM

But, if it lasts longer than 4 hours, do the cut and restored rope. lol

-Ron

Have you seen the Jack in the Box TV spot where Jack's father enters saying, "Call the Dr. it's been over four hours."

Yes... that was funny. Not expected at all.

Let's consider this topic from the other side....

What do YOU have to offer us?

Only once in my magical life, did I use someone elses one-liners and it flopped. The late Chris Carey wrote the book, "Do the stuff that's you" and I believe its true with one-liners. Harry Allan has "sleight of mouth" with one-liners from yesteryear. Bottom line, you have to be really comfortable using the lines. Locker-room humor does not always play well with mixed audiences. Viagra jokes play for a laugh, but it is becoming a bit played out.
I worked with George Schindler for several years and wound up absorbing some of his old vaudeville lines. We were both from Brooklyn and have similar timing, accent, and delivery.
I used his lines in a show in Atlantic City and didn't know he was on the bill the next night. and we haven't spoken for 25 years since. It wasn't that they weren't classic vaudeville, it was that I used it before he could at the same venue.

Since then, if I need comedic line, I develop it myself or make sure its really stock.
I still use a lot of stock stuff during my rope. When the spectator cuts the rope at the wrong spot, "Good thing your not a Rabbi", When spectator cuts my rope "careful, its the white meat not the pink", I ask "do you know one end from the other? What's the other?"
Here is my "stock rope show" (done impromptu for a club).
http://magicians.podbean.com/rope-interlude/
The best applause come from the effect.

I had a writer from Jay Leno's staff re-write a routine for me to "UPDATE" it. References and lines need to relate to today's happenings.

Speaking of Viagra lines.... he wrote: "My dog got into my Viagra and we had to use the JAWS OF LIFE to get him off my leg."

Everybody is always begging for one-liners and funny stuff instead of coming up with their own.

Here's what I have discovered:

Most borrowed one-liners are not that funny.... AT ALL.
Good material comes from doing your routine thousands of times and the funny stuff will present itself to you during those thousands of performances. All of it will be funnier than anything you'll get by begging at the Café. Best of all, it will be original and will naturally fit who you are.

You just need to put in the time.


The constant "everybody give me their best stuff that you've worked so hard on and I'll pick and choose what I like" by magicians is just so awful in so many ways.

You end up with awful hack lines that everyone tosses away like garbage and you sound like every other hack magician at the same time.

You just need to put in the time.

Or hire a real comedy writer.

Try making a habit of carrying a pen and a little moleskin notebook in your pocket. As you walk around, do chores, etc., see what one-liners you can come up with related to certain topics - magic oriented or otherwise. Write down the good ones. You'll be amazed how many you can compile over time, and they're all yours.