Magician Ricky Jay on Arsenio in 1988

Slight-of-hand magician Ricky Jay appears here on Arsenio back in 1988 with an amazing performance. I captured this from my own VHS-recorded copy of the broadcast from back in the day. :)

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[blusuck]

2:35 smooth sleit of hand

[jmange]

At 4:20-4:23 you can just catch him bend a corner of the black card and straighten the red, but what amazing skill, you can barely even make it out when you know exactly when and what to look for.

[Simone Camillo]

epic top change

[CardtrickerJeffrey12]

I figured out how he does it by watching it... Quite simple

[brian branham]

i doubt i would have noticed it but i think if someone was really concentrating 2:35 would have been pretty obvious. nonetheless it was smoother than i could probably ever do it with limitless practice.

[blusuck]

yeah especially if a mug like me noticed it but none the less still a good magician

[liberalguy513]

smooth? Looked like a sloppy top-change to me.

[kokokoko344]

If that part with the bent corner was impromptu, ohhh my god. 

[bugoobiga]

Ricky Jay on the Arsenio Hall show is like Stephen Hawking on Sponge Bob Squarepants

[Johnny Silver]

not difficult to type, but terribly difficult to spell for most people ;)

[Hamish Ismay]

Well observed sir...