Eatery
Cannibal:
A person who goes into a restaurant
and orders the waiter! You can incorporate your
best cannibal jokes in this routine with this
old and well known theme. This trick is part
of a longer routine of mine in which I use moves
from Karl Fulves, Jon Racherbaumer
along with my own personal approaches to this
classic theme.
EFFECT
The performer shows four Kings which, he says,
represent four cannibals. A card is taken (a
missionary)!) and placed into the card case
(the cave!) with the four Kings. The Kings eat
the selected missionary. The box is opened and
the four Kings are tossed out together with
several BONES -- all that's left of the poor
missionary!
REQUIREMENTS
A deck and some plastic bones of a size to fit
into the card boxes (you may find these bones
in many novelty, gift or costume shops.)
SET-UP
Place the bones into the card box and you are
ready.
PERFORMANCE
Leave the card box aside on the table. I begin
the card session by apparently taking out the
deck from the box while the box and the deck
are still out of view. Spread the cards, take
out the four Kings and table the deck FACE UP
to your left. Show the Kings and then keep them
face down in the left hand dealing position.
Perform a Double
Turnover and show a King face up- Say
that this is the chief of the group (or something
similar!). Turn over the whole packet in the
left hand. Take the cards from above in the
right hand and with the left fingers, slide
off the bottom card (same King shown before),
turn it face up and place it on top. You now
have one reversed King face down on the bottom
of the packet. The right thumb catches a break
at the bottom King (which is face down) and
keeps it separated from the other Kings. The
left hand takes half of the deck that was left
on the table. Turn the left hand palm up so
that the cards are face down.
The left thumb pushes off the
top card to the right as in figure 1. Use the left side of the right hand packet to flip
this card face up onto the deck, showing an
indifferent card, say the 10,
saying that this card is a missionary. With
the same move, flip the card face down onto
the deck in order for it to land flush on the
deck and at the same time perform the Drop Switch, dropping the face down King on top of the 10 (the indifferent card) as it falls onto the deck (figure
2 before the broken card drops). The
left thumb immediately pushes the top card off
onto the right hand packet. The left hand turning
palm down again, places its half of the deck
face up onto the tabled portion thereby eliminating
the card.
Take the face down card (supposedly the indifferent
card previously shown but really the King) into
the left hand. Turn the three (supposedly four)
Kings face down and place them on top. I now
perform any standard false count (for example,
see Omega Count on page
61 in I Am a Joker) to show that I have five
cards in my hands.
Place these cards into the
card box (without exposing the bones and without
allowing the bones to 'talk'...to make any noise.)
Close the box and shake it telling the audience
that the cannibals are chasing and eating the
poor missionary. Open the card box and shake
out its contents. The four Kings fan out along
with the 'remains' of the missionary! The selected
card is gone.
