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  • I like Derren using mentalist. Illusionism sucks.

  • I used to be able to do magic like that, but then i took an arrow to the knee.

  • that awkward moment when all he was thinking about was cute puppies when he lit the bulb...

  • The bulb is filled with a chemical that when it is sealed in the back the pressure built up to a point where it broke...some shit like that . Your welcome.

  • can anyone try and EXPLAIN what the fuck just happened?!!! please!

  • I don't have the money to pull this off. :(

  • That's on now how is that possible

  • People really do believe anything ... it could've been done with off stage electrical equipment, yet we continue to believe.

  • i get the first to parts (string and trick lightbulb that flashes a bit soon after being turned). someone know how the exploding part works. he didn't do anything particular with it.

  • 1:21 may be you know the trick... lol

  • If you want to see how this trick works ignore the bulb itself - look at Derren's hands!

  • Im upset thi sis the unser  watch?v=PvkgnnuzyyI&feature=fv­wrel

  • I think Derren is fantastic! End of.

  • @missfrizzyuk there shud b more thumbs up for this!!!

  • @fanfetti Why on earth are there any dislikes?? It boggles my mind

  • Its all in the mind ; LOOOOOOVE DERREN BROWN <3

  • he is an xpert of mind, he knows really well how it works human concious and unconcious mind, he knows how to unleash the unconcious, with some memory trics so you develope a really good memory and with a lot of training and experience... you get Derren Brown and that is.. just awsome..

  • I don't remember what episode this is from but imbedded in this is an NLP trick for changing your personal beliefs. You do something exactly like this (imagining your negative believe you want to change as a light bulb) just without the prop. The light bulb is just for entertainment and possibly helps the NLP.

    BTW is this the one where he gets a guy a girlfriend?

  • 1 in 10 inmates are raped in prison. 

  • There is a simple explanation. He is a witch and should be immediately brunt at the stake.

  • search for "Brainiac light bulb in microwave" and watch explanation

  • what episode is this from?

  • @mattymoomoo01 And with his larger shows, he throws teddy bears into the crowd with his eyes closed and tells him to throw it again 3 times. So theres no actors or stooges either. He is just simply a very intelligent, Confidant, and quick thinker. He learns entire 400 page books in minutes and can answer any questions you ask about it. He knows tricks that enable him to become a faster and more efficient thinker as well as psychology to make people think of something. He is my Idol.

  • @Slemoster I echo what you say apart from the 'learns entire 400 page books in minutes and can answer any questions you ask about it.' What evidence do you have for this? Derren famously created an illusion where he 'knew' the contents of a book at the British Library, under the pretence of 'PhotoReading'. Just a trick but a clever and cool one.

  • did he actually move the bulb? and like even if it had a battery, yeah, how did he turn it on?????

  • The bulb has a battery because it's not a proper bulb.

  • I know how the bulb broke but have no idea how the rest of it works. I love Derren Brown, a mixture of ''magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship'' and the genius is you never know which one is being used.

  • $_$

  • He constantly staes that he has no powers or abillities. His career is based on how great he can fool people, and he has always been honest about it.

  • i think he is absolutly brilliant, and very talented at what he does!! i dont get why everyone is so bovered about how he does it, or about saying that he is a fake. it is bloody brilliant to watch!!!!

  • Derren's bloody fun to watch. Some idiots - the ones who scream fake - forget Derren's just an entertainer. No-one in their reasonable mind would believe he's a magician or psychic as he specifically states this before his shows.

  • the light bulb might have a battery in it

  • this was beautiful

  • We are hardwired... BIG BANG Alakazam.

    Also with the lottery: When you are watching this projection on the side of a building...

    And with the gravedigger: Wow this is out of this world.

    Those references crack me up!

  • Good tricks, I could explain (1) why the bulb would move on the table. Such as magnet under the table. (2) why the bulb would light up- LED and battery. But I could not explain (3) make the bulb pop. Perhaps something to do with that black holder on top of the bag.

  • @kw0s Its a combination of 3 tricks using a gimmicked bulb, which he switches with the audience members as they come up on stage. The effects can be bought from magic shops, although this is an expensive way to perform all 3 since he destroys a costly gimmick.

  • @kw0s The metal on the bulb is not magnetised.

  • @trantricity 30 pound dollars? :P

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  • I haven't commented for ages but seeing as Derren is on tonight it brought it all back to me. I'm the guy from this video. I can clarify that it was my lightbulb, not a trick one, nothing was attached to it and it was a cool trick. And Derren is a nice guy.

    Take him for what he is, a clever guy with an amazing mind.

  • @jasperbunny And why exactly did you let him blow up your lightbulb?

  • @Isteinier Lol cos I had no choice, I was chosen!

  • @jasperbunny Just joking ofcourse!

    But hey, when you were walking to the table, who held the lightbulb in his hands? Was it you or him? He could very well have changed it in for a false one he designed for the trick, couldn't he? If he was holding it, that is...

  • @jasperbunny u wer on tv??? oh em geee! :O

  • @jasperbunny Nooooooooooooo your not

  • Who cares how he did it? His whole point is that religion is rubbish. Religious people make life decisions on what they want to be true rather than what really is true.

  • ok the movement and the light is something you can easily do with an LED, a battery, a small electro motor with a weight on it and some remote recievers you can hide most of it in the base (except for the led of course- but hey, it's not transparent for a reason)

    what really bugs me is how they break it the end. i don't think they can build a second motor that small and strong to break it... on the other hand.. the bulp doen't have to be made of glas... gr8 trick anyways!

  • @BalthazzarCH maybe it is all smoke and mirrors

    or maybe not

    its good saying that it is a led in the bulb and stuff but sometimes there isjust no explination

    search "Chi Energy Amazing Footage"

    i undrstand chi only through my MMA training however maybe darren harnessed this ?

  • @thornhunt Derren openly sais that he does not have any superioor powers. He sais in every show that these are all tricks some physical, some psychological... definately no voodoo, chi or anything alike. However he doesn't reveal how the trick is done - otherwise his viewer ratings would drop.

  • @BalthazzarCH fair point :)

  • @thornhunt

    Ive read Derrens books and he believes in no such thing.

  • who cares how he did it with tricks, this tells us all about an important point in life that most of us are missing, by trying to understand how he's doing it, is prooving my point more so.

  • I love his tricks lol Its funny i got the message more about religion. Like some people cling onto religion so they have meaning in life. When he said you cling onto it and it becomes your theme and let this rubbish become your guiding light. Thats basicly my thoughts on it aswell.

  • Awesome performance. Calling him a fake would be implying that he is saying he is something that he's not. He doesn't do that at all. He's always up front with the reality of what he is doing but keeping the method secret for obvious reasons. I mean you could say the whole point of the speech in this performance is to NOT think its "real".

  • Even if everything he does are tricks, he is still fantastic to watch. And that is his point.

  • does this speech not directly reflect society's religious beliefs? If there is any point to be taken in this then I'd think it's that though it is often very easy to believe in the supernatural, we must always question why it is we're buying into it. And anyone complaining about this guy bein a fake, don't you understand he's not claiming to have any "powers". He's trying to teach you idiots that NO BODY has supernatural powers.

  • i love this speech

  • there are three people in the room on 1:08min you can hear the light swich

    look at michael at 1:15min behind him is a man with a swich he then puts the swich on the table whilst the camera is close to darrens face

    on the 1:22min darren flicks the swich off which you can hear clearly

    not sure what smashed it but the camera man didnt keep it still for a reason

  • @03mrobinson At 1:22, he moves the large clip off the plastic baggie. That is the "switch" you hear, although I concede it's possible that he was misdirecting us with the clip sound to disguise a switch sound. I did not personally hear anything at 1:08. My personal belief is the light bulb is touch activated. Notice how Darren positions the bulb in his hands a very specific way. And keep in mind, there have been touch-activated toys for probably more than a decade.

  • it is prolly tricked, if it was not, the show would be with at least a control of under the table and inside the bulb

  • Very premeditated, on Derren Browns part :D

  • i liked it................ :)

  • a good message wrapped up in pretty nice showmanship.

  • dudes fasta hands !!! ive seen this trick performed many times !

    nothing new!!!

  • Omg he is so cool!!

    And it's so annoying when some people say this is fake, it's not. Obviously they are things that are quite shocking and hard to believe, however he has mastered very good mind control to become like this. Many of his methods work. And it's not fake because if it was, ALL of his mind methods would work because he would probably use things to help him. But the fact that some of his methods don't work, shows that he tries, but some things are too hard to do.

  • he used a string in both hands to move the bulb, you can see it reflect -.-

  • @nibbler4444

    That wasn't a string, it was the reflection of the bulb on the table. Look carefully.

  • @nibbler4444 thats the reflection of the bulb u tool, so what about when it lights up and smashes? that string also?

  • @PS3allen007

    you can see the reflection of the wire, and the bulb nd it is all just a trick anyway, i have seen this done loads of times before

  • @nibbler4444 I noticed that too. Why do his hands start moving the minute that he says it will start moving just watch it and started moving

  • @m3erw

    i know yeah, it looks too obvious to me

  • @nibbler4444 your alright

  • @KBatBK you too lol :P

  • @m3erw your an absoulute granny shagging toss munger jew

  • @KBatBK I'm sorry!! I was merely commenting on how his hands were moving the minute that the bulb started moving. I love derren brown, am astounded by him. I paid to go an see Enigma and it was amazing. I am sorry that the only words that you can use to defend yourself are mostly obscene. Oh, and by the way, just for the record, I'm a girl.

  • when he picks up the plastic bag the light goes out and it sounds like a switch has gone off!!!

  • @mrHat14  its the paper clip thing lol i thought the same !!! :)

  • @blackmailinbitch ah right!! still pretty impressive!!

  • It's a series of 3 different gimmicks.. I'm a magician myself so won't reveal them, but anyone with a vague idea about magic will know which gimmicks he uses. It's pretty uncharacteristic of Derren to use such mainstream gimmicks; but maybe he's just trying to keep with the times..

  • Oh and you lot actually know! I saw him live he didnt use anything! So this must be true.

  • his left hand is moving quit a lot ,

  • Anyone have an explaination of how he did this?

  • Well I m not sure but during the first movement there might be something under the table, light could be coused by electric impulse from his body (after he gives it away it fades) and the last one might be becouse of specific temperature/oxygen strain.

  • @thesuccesskey i think he may have a very powerful magnet attached to his leg and to the bulb and just moving his leg around underneath the table...but maing it light up and breaking it i dont know

  • thats kinda intresting. in the latest batch of shows (prediction of lottery etc) i felt he was playing to his thick audience in his explanations and trying to take them all the way. he says hes honest about the dishonesty but i felt this was a new kind of dishonesty he wasnt being totally honest about (unless you were mildly inteligent and saw it was all utter pants).

    but mostly derren is bril and has tons of class and style.

  • Remote controlled hahaha.

  • all this is fine, but making people stick to their chairs is wicked. now, thats really psychic (control over mind)

  • @Vasant85

    Not mind control, suggestion, no one would stick to their chair if they didn't want to, it is the same way with a hypnotist trying to get someone to commit murder, it wont happen.

  • well you SAY that, but he successfully influenced several people to commit armed robbery. of course the armoured truck and money was all previously set up, no "real" crime was committed, but they didnt know that at the time.

    perhaps the same could be done for murder

  • And?

  • Here are some guesses:

    1) He moves the bulb by blowing on it - his head points down.

    2) The light bulb glows - there is an off screen light beam maybe UV or IR light with perhaps flourescence coating to the bulb.

    3) The collapasing may be a similar use of off screen invisible light beam.

  • haha actually, they arnt anywhere near e solution.

    the real solution is just genious xDD

  • @chrisc62 

    Invisible Light Beams.

    ORITE.

  • Derren im somewhat dissapointed in this one, the moving light bulb i don't know this one but i think it uses some kind of magnets. Look @ 0:41 Derren gets ready for the lighting of the light bulb. This is a magic trick called "lightning" you can buy it from the magic depot or from howyoudoinmate on ebay and the exploding of the light bulb trick is called "big bang" which can be bought from both places as well.

  • ... kind of guy. He straight tells you what he is using.

    Yes he is using tricks. I know many myself. It is the way he presents them too you that is different.

    Some of those tricks have been used for 100's of years.

    Yes he uses mind tricks to that people call Hypnosis. That is what it is. A way/method/form to trick the mind.

    And if anybody gets offended by the fact I called some of you dumb asses is because you are one.

    Smart people will not get offended and that is not an insult to them.

  • For the most part, most people don't get Derren's point.

    I don't get why people say, he is fake, don't have style, he is using ticks. What kind of idiot would doubt that. Of course there is no real magic here.

    The point he is trying to make is for you, the dumb asses to THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX SO YOU WON'T GET CON!

    And he does have style. In fact, it is a very unique one. There is only a hand full of people that do this kind of work. He is not your typical I am going to pull a rabbit ....

  • @mercurio0000 your a cock

  • @KBatBK No I am not. Why you say that? I like Derren. I just don't get people commenting here saying that this is fake.

    He is amazing. I love the way he presents his stuff. But when he fist got started he did it in a way to wake people up to the fact that this stuff that people do could be use to hurt us.

    So I don't get you. May be is because you are 17 as your profile says. I respect you either way even if you think I am a cock.

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  • @mercurio0000 Are you a mind reader? It's amazing how you know what he's all about.

    Yeah, he's great fun to watch. I agree with him at the point that if a belief causes something you do NOT want then it's a good idea to change it. But even if the belief is not true i.e. "Anything is possible" doesn't mean it's not useful. A lot of the time people who have "realistic" beliefs get "realistic" outcomes. It's the difference between the "average" person's life and the lives of people like Da Vinci.

  • @mercurio0000 exactly you tell them. I'm sick and tired of people saying he's rubbish, he's brilliant.

  • @LittleMissNight Thank your! :-)

  • Yes, OfficerFonz, of COURSE it's fake! That is the whole point!

  • at 1:10

    bottom right screen lol

  • lol, that ruined it -.-;

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  • ...

    first, invisible thread tied between Brown's hands then pushed against the "bulb" hence the bulb moving.

    second, its not even a bulb.. its a toy you can get in toysrus or sth. simple remote control modification can be made to control the on/off.

    third, the braking of the light bulb is what i cant figure out..

  • @SL83NED Nah everyone brought a lightbulb from their home with them and this guy was selected randomly to come on stage so its not a toy lightbulb.

  • @SL83NED You are spot-on with the invisible thread. I read it in a children's magician book growing up. Use a human hair or, more modernly, a very thin width of silicone thread. There are flying toy dolls that use this. It's very strong, very light, and nearly invisible. :)

  • First part he was gently rocking the table.

  • I had a dream last night, I met him! aw he's lovely.

  • bullsh*t!

  • ultraviolet light! That's why its blueish!

  • how the hell can you say Derren Brown has 'no class or style'?

  • =).

  • how did you come to that conclution?

  • I couldn't help loling at ur reply against ur username, sorry.

  • It's all smoke and mirrors, of course, but the fact remains that Derren Brown is a bloody good showman. He's enormous fun to watch.

  • @eversoplucky your a nob

  • @eversoplucky then how did he do it?

  • not one of his strongest illusions, its hard not to think this is a trick bulb. I like the stuff he does which really makes me wonder how in the hell he possibly could have done it.

    Anyway, Derren Brown is the best conjerour on the planet, bar none. Chris Angel, Blaine etc could be students of his.

  • paul daniels? lol

  • watch science of scams. he disproves almost everything like ghosts and ouija boards and psychic powers. its brilliant

  • jesus christ people if you don't like derren brown then why are you watching his videos? Sometimes even even if you don't know how something is done it just feels great to be amazed by it rather than just bullshitting about him

  • jesus. he admits these illusions aren't real. but who says you cant enjoy the trickery? if you have an open mind you can enjoy his work. the things he does may not be real, but making you think they are is his talent. so stop being such bastards & give the guy a break. let him do his job, he does it well. (:

    p.s ; i've met him & he his the most lovliest person to have ever walked the earth. x

  • he uses the power of suggestion and they're two different acts, 'magic' tricks and 'mind control' let's see paul daniels try and guess the lottery.

  • and if you read mine you can see what an arrogant little shit you are ^^ illusionist there fore how can he be a fake?

    idiot.

  • "illusionist there fore how can he be a fake?"

    The answer to your question is because you have the IQ of a cheese sandwich.

    Have a nice life, RETARD.

  • people fall for what? of course there is a reasonable way that he does all that he does but it is not a magic trick. you're the loser looking at the comments to this video over and over trying to be a twat about it, lol fail at life.

  • hahaha

  • fake? you really are a noob - he is a SELF-renowned ILLUSIONIST.

  • i know its fake but you shouldn't use peoples sexuality as an insult.

  • how did your tiny little mind come to the conclution that he is... 'a fake'?

  • it doesn't mean he's a fake! at the begining of EVERY show-weather its his tv shows or his live shows he does on tour he says he uses (and i quote)

    ''magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship''

    so he's telling you its all trickery, so if someone is telling you its all trickery you cant class him and call him a fake!

  • metal table, long sleeved jumper.. its likely static electricity, he also slaps the table to disrupt the static and turn the bulb off

  • i have a good theory.... and here is what i think....

    to get it moving he is using a magnet under the table he is moving with his legs.... Then he puts a little led bulb because he never looks at the other side then it lights after that.... He takes it back removes the light quickly then puts it in a bag that is filled with some weird substance that made it shatter.... Simple

  • How condescending and patronising.

  • indeed.

  • in this particular video derren is full of shit

  • I like Derren Brown because he never acts as if hes truly psychic, he always starts with the fact that he doesnt believe in magic and the paranormal

  • Exactly, anyone that reads his book Tricks of the Mind would see that. I don't understand why people bash him so much.

  • i think how he broke it was, the heat coming from the lamp burned all the oxygen inside the bag, he wasn't letting any more oxygen in from the black thing from the top and eventually the bag became a vacuum, strong enough to break the lamp. i think...

  • But the lamp breaks when he says ''If your brave enough you can let it go'' but the timing of it is what gets me

  • FOR ALL THE DUMB FUCKS!!!

    this is actually a new generation bulb, that uses LED's instead of a fillament. The Human body, when given enough static charge, can easily light these bulbs.

    For the breaking part, I have no clue

  • ... that... was... AWESOME!!! XD

  • ...also if u listen to everything derren is saying, he is quite simply waffling??? very goodd...

  • he isnt psychic , he says so himself

  • Just a heads up here that the bulb is infact real

  • He is so good at messing with people's heads. Love it - a truly great magician!

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  • Darren Brown has gone from Pyschology and NLP to magic tricks..

    A big of a fraud as he claims not to be an illusionist nor magician.

  • he has never hidden the fact that some magic is included in his show. He speaks very openly about it. He always says his shows mix 'psychology, MAGIC, misdirection and showmanship'. He speaks to magicians, writes books for magicians, is very popular in the magic community. Although, he does mix in a lot of psychological tricks and other things as well that aren't really magic tricks in the traditional sense, and that's why he is in a class of his own and so highly thought of. oh, and it DERREN!

  • I have everyone of derrens books AND seminars on dvd. He does very rarely does any psychology and nlp.. most of it is just mentalism..He has just created a style of his own.. Read "pure effect"

  • 'Pure effect' is fantastic, as is 'Absolute Magic'. Good luck finding an official copy of either though. Only place i've found is International Magic selling them for £150 each! So glad i bought them a few years ago when they were only £30 each! Not seen any of his DVD's, though a friend recommended 'The Devils Picturebook', I'm not really into that sort of knuckle busting card magic (Yes KANETREADWELL, Derren started out as a card MAGICIAN...)

  • Pisses me off when people say Darren Brown.

  • Im a derren fan but this is his worst trick ever... you can buy that bulb from any magic shop.. I am choosing to "Believe" that he had some ulterior motive to this trick.

  • the bulb there is actually a bulb that the guy brought from home. He was picked from the audience, all of which brought their own bulbs

  • well.. they may have bought bulbs from home yes.. but it was switched for an exploding bulb... its one of the oldest tricks in magic watch?v=dQ-EPbjBc9o

  • If anyone is intereted in the power of illusions or hypnosis, visist my channel and enjoy!

  • The clicking noise you hear is him moving the 'bag clip' from off the top of the plastic bag and onto the table :)

    All in all I love this trick its amazing, <3

  • is it just me or is this one really bad...? i'm a fan of derren brown but this whole thing is just.... magic prop... pretty bad one as well... lithium batteries...custom made magnetic metal base... and a small charge... i fail to see how anyone could be amazed by this particular act.