Kostya Kimlat is known as “The Business Magician” - a world-renowned speaker, entertainer, and expert in how to Think Like A Magician™. Kostya has presented his sophisticated brand of magic for thinking audiences in over 200 cities on 5 continents. Kostya founded See Magic Live, which trains and books magicians for events across the country. Kostya is most widely known for fooling the famous Vegas duo, Penn & Teller, on their hit CW TV show, “Penn and Teller: Fool Us” and becoming the closing act for their show at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
Its so much fun because it flies over the head of everyone else except Penn & Teller. The genius part is that it looks like a normal magic trick, one that Penn & Teller are very familiar with and know perfectly. They know the trick, but the problem is that all throughout Kostya is doing it completely wrong and, SOMEHOW, the trick ends up coming out perfectly. That's what was frustrating Penn so much, that he could see the trick right in his face, that he was thinking "god damn, you are doing it all wrong!" and then the result ended up working nonetheless.
When this was done the slow motion was less advanced but nowadays one can see he does a trick after he has put Penn’s card in the deck and before he tables the card deck. It’d been clear for P’n’T had they had good slomo available.
@@Veronicat-of4nz yeah but in the show P&T never replay anything. The whole point is to ask “were you fooled watching it live once,” not “were you fooled replaying it slow motion 7 times on RU-vid?” :-)
I realized after watching a few times he meant to grab just one.. but acted like he pulled it off perfectly which was confusing and I wasn't sure why people were clapping for an obvious mishap .. lol. Still a thousand times better than what I could ever do. I would have been blown away if he had pulled it off for sure.
The best trick is NOT a trick, but makes you think it is! And either way, he came out on top. Either he fools Penn and Teller, or he did a trick so good, Penn admitted "You didn't fool us because you are just THAT good!"
Everything about this. Teller getting so excited at seeing such a great trick. Penn getting pissed for the same reason. I love coming back and watching this from time to time. Definitely my favorite Fool Us segment!
It wasn't a magic trick as Penn pointed out. It was just memorising the cards instead of doing any magic. That's how he tried to fool them because people normally suspect things like filed edges or weighted cards when trying to work it out instead of just being good with your hands and a good memory which is how it was done
I disagree with this, he grabbed a bunch of cards and picked out the selection. I thought he would have grabbed only the selected card, and that would have been awesome
@@jackshaw9637 that’s a strange thing to comment. All magic is skill. There is no magic. Hiding the skill makes people perceive it to be magic. The difference in this effect is at the end, the skill is revealed. Yes, it’s not magic. But neither is anything else.
So let me get this straight…Kostya Kimlat went on stage in front of Penn and Teller, two people who know the trick inside and out, and legit manipulated the deck as they were watching him closely without them noticing? 😂😂
@@tyh4180 I was trying to make P&T think I was using a memorized deck. It was a needless misdirection that didn’t help the clarity of effect to the lay audience. I don’t ever need to have the card named. Thanks for asking!
@@KostyaKimlat ahhh, got you. To the audience, at least, it hits much better without the card being named. Esp when grabbing a group of cards vs just the one like I've seen you do, which is still unreal, even with knowing how it's done. You're hard work to your craft is inspiring. Thank you for explaining
That's the weirdest "bust" ever. "You're so good that it wasn't a trick, you actually did what you said you were going to do, so you didn't fool us." What??
@@puddinTane760 I really do appreciate you. I think crediting is very important in magic. Let me know if you’d like to see video of me doing my trick in 2005 in London for a few hundred magicians. Then maybe you can comment on other people’s videos and tell them to credit me. 🤣
@@KostyaKimlat Wow, the man himself! You're amazing Kostya! 👍👍👍I think i was even more impressed by your showmanship than the trick itself! Much love from the current russia/former soviet union! ❤❤
