Dan White Blows Jimmy's Mind with a Harry Potter Book Trick

[@ikamts2]

I got so frustrated when people say "magic is fake, therefore I hate it." Yeah no shit it's fake. So are movies (batman isn't real guys), but it's art. You should enjoy it as a performance.

[@ClemsonFan46]

It's not that it's fake. All magic is fake, but there's a huge difference between very talented sleight of hand tricks and just setting something up beforehand and then claiming you didn't. This "trick" requires virtually no skill outside of just a little acting.

[@MrAlio84]

ikamts2 Norhing is art on this one, it is staged. An eight years old kid can do this shit.

[@lagreif]

that's what Batman WANTS you to think.

[@tanskitkat928]

ikamts2 what did you say about batman?

[@schenksaus]

Maybe they should do the "art" correctly. If everybody can SEE its fake, its not performed well, is it? It's only art if you do it right.

[@Mrtinriggs]

Page 272 is in the MIDDLE of book when Jimmy picks it 1:25. But at the end, page 272 is in VERY BACK of book 6:05

[@RgZDonnerZ]

He always Puts The Card at Same Spot Thema Jimmy only gets to Look at Fake Peace of Page (real Page is already torn out thats Why he doesnt open the hole book) At 1:53 Look closly as he quickly Takes out the card wirh the fake peace of Page and puts it in his Poket! The Torn page was in his shoe all along - rigged!

[@RgZDonnerZ]

Sry he puts it behind The Book

[@iheartphc]

There are 304 pages in that book, so 272 really IS close to the back.

[@noemikiss4060]

IT is the same by the blond girl... 3:02 it is in the middle of the book, and at 3:22 it is rather the end part... maybe she had changed the page before she chose a word, it canb e possible, the the video was cut :)

[@kevinking2008]

Martin Riggs they did not put the card in that book that far back

[@annlys7728]

Dan seems the most impressed with the trick he is doing. 😂😂

[@karissa.nicole]

Annly S hahahaha that's exactly what I was thinking the whole time

[@alelaera13]

Ahahahahahahahaha

[@rashmicp4356]

Yeah ha ha ha

[@cheesecakelasagna]

lmao can't unsee

[@KevinKillaKam]

pull that shit in Salem back in the 1800's and you'd be in some deep shit.

[@nathannewman1532]

Kevin Mitchell lmao

[@abelsolis4029]

Kevin Mitchell lol Best comment for this video so far

[@elidlsify]

Kevin Mitchell Jesus LMAO this comment made my Day!!!! lol

[@JoeShopper]

I think even in the 1800's they would have seen how fake this was. But then you accidently check your iPhone to see what time it is and get burned at the stake anyway.

[@wheatbread9364]

it was the 1600s

[@ObeyCamp]

The 'Book Test' is one of my favorite illusions because it's one that you know can't be real, but at the same time you watch it happen and it's *very* difficult to come up with an elegant enough explanation for it if you don't know the secret. I've seen many variations on this illusion with different reveals at the end and all, but Dan White's version here was just fantastic. I love the addition of the dictionary and using the "code." It's brilliant in its simplicity, it was very elegant, and none of it seemed clunky at all. Surprisingly, a basic 'Book Test' is relatively easy to learn and to do, but the surprise on Jimmy's face here was legitimate and I don't believe at all that he was in on it. Very impressive. This is, by far, the best variation of the 'Book Test' I've ever seen.

[@916milo]

So the audience member had to be a plant right?

[@abhijitdas601]

@@916milo nope

[@TheBlack106]

That was lucky that Jimmy took the correct shoe off first time wasn't it...

[@olirahman3118]

EndingGamertag I subbed to you bro

[@chupenkov]

Yea, but if you watch closely, Dan shows which shoe, so it wasn't Jimmy that took it off

[@wiley990]

But Jimmy still looked at his own shoe right away as soon as the magician said the word "soul" ....I think Jimmy messed up there!

[@0oJadeeeo0]

i think he meant sole which makes sense, and gives a reason why, putting together with the given context, jimmy could've had a hunch about his shoe hence looking down

[@wiley990]

Nah...I checked the Neil Patrick Harris ebook. The word "sole" isn't in the book, but "soul" is. Jimmy associated "soul" with his shoes.

[@KoreaYear]

I loved this wholeheartedly.

[@gabrielbrumberg229]

Read more for genuine reveal. The first effect is done with a trick card. The page had already been ripped out and planted in Jimmy's shoe before the show. The playing card had a secret paper on it resembling the corner of the page which could be stuck anywhere in the book to reveal the false page. From then on it's just a matter of acting and selling the trick. 1:37 See how he holds his hand to cover the gap between the false paper and the rest of the book. As for the Harry Potter trick, it is an effect called Book Test created and sold by Brian Brushwood. The book is gimmicked to have certain repeating long words places on every page of the book. Since he sells the effect on his websites, I don't want to give away the entire thing. But I'll leave it at the fact that the magician only needs a small amount of information to know the word, and he would have only had to memorize a few different dictionary pages. Hope this helps!

[@nicolasnod7359]

Well, at least this way Jimmy wasn't in on it. Which makes it a real "magic" trick.

[@dragovern]

Nah, he was in. Did both shoes have the page?

[@Osk42]

Not impressed... I mean he used a magic book.

[@TGC323]

You are right, it's a simple trick, i found a tutorial on youtube...

[@alberich3099]

might be a "simple" trick but damn it was carried out nicely

[@sanklin98]

He means the Harry Potter book.

[@ObeyCamp]

Robert Tapalaga You might've found a tutorial for 'a' book test on KZbin, but you didn't find 'this' book test on KZbin. What you're talking about- a basic, simple book test, should almost be considered a completely different thing from this book test. Most book tests require one of two things: a set of instructions for picking the word that are very restrictive and alert people to the fact that it's a force, or an altered book, probably one nobody's ever heard of. This one is different because it uses books that people have heard of and the word selection part feels as open and free and unrestricted as it possibly can. No KZbin tutorial is going to teach this trick because you won't have the right book to do it with. For this version you're gonna have to go to www.scamstuff.com/products/brian-brushwood-book-test and shell out -1200 bucks- *$700* because only 500 sets will ever be made. This is on another level from what you looked at. This is the kind of thing a world-famous magician would purchase for use in appearances on TV specials. This isn't your average KZbin tutorial, 'Ford-Pinto-version' of the book test. This is the '2019-Lamborghini-Aventador-Performante-version' of the book test.

[@shaiwriter]

Best comment!!!! LOL!

[@rohnraphael3270]

Guys stop calling it fake, MAGIC is FAKE there are no real wizards it's art and please learn to respect what he did. His act was pretty good A good comment won't hurt Adios

[@riyves]

still don't understand why the audience member had to have read harry potter to participate :/

[@johnsmi213]

Probably because it's a doctored book with the word "halfheartedly" standing out on every page. But by using someone who's read the book, it sells the idea that it's the actual book you'd buy in the store.

[@cheesecakelasagna]

If the girl really had freedom on the word then why the HP book and why did he only mention "real word" at 3:23 after she's picked her word when it's natural for an "HP fan" to pick any of the magic words. Seems like she knew beforehand that she has to pick a real word.

[@scribe570]

@@cheesecakelasagna "real word" - that could be a legit instruction that he wants a word that will (ultimately) be in the dictionary and not the name of a character.

[@MavisRileyJunior]

@Hairy Chinese Kid NOt true.

[@derickjames2910]

It was rigged. He asked for an audience member that had READ the book. That's how Jimmy knew to pick the woman in an isle seat wearing all RED. And the paper in the shoe was not even possible unless rigged.

[@lenabrennan7566]

I’m on my phone watching this and the title of the thumbnail couldn’t completely fit so it said Dan White blows jimmy 😂

[@krisharvey4816]

And you clicked on it. Eww. Lol.

[@joegatto2402]

Hahahahahha

[@IGGYTheClown]

I sometimes feel like I could watch an entire show of Jimmy Fallon just having his mind constantly blown watch magicians

[@ruthlessd33no14]

okay but anyone notice that weird cut at 6:32

[@whatisiswhatable]

Hairy Chinese Kid that was the card

[@maskedmarvel09]

According to my ebook of goblet of fire 'half-heartedly' isn't in there?

[@loneranger718]

+Masked Marvel Yeah, I checked too. It isn't there.

[@tomg.9589]

Every page just says half heartedly, I think.

[@teyla21]

ebook and the real book don't have the same page count...

[@maskedmarvel09]

teyla21 I search for the word 'half' and it wasn't followed by heartedly at all, she doesn't mention page number in video

[@lamosos]

Wouldn't it be much easier to search for the word "heartedly"?

[@Fabian_AD]

A few things: There is an editing slip-up at 6:32 (Dan White's hand jumps from outstretched to his chest instantaneously; whatever happened in between the cut likely reveals the shoe trick/set up); The page in Neil P. Harris' book is in a different spot at the end than in the beginning of the trick; The word "half-heartedly" is not found in The Goblet of Fire, though it is in the Prisoner of Azkaban (this takes away from realism more than it affects the trick at all); If Dan accounted for all these things (which he totally could), this would be an awesome trick!

[@alemontreemydearwatson9775]

I love watching Jimmy get totally freaked by magic haha XD

[@SynS7ven]

A lot of good fundamentals thrown into one act. Well executed.

[@rickpompa9106]

Dan White makes his living as a magician. He would never "stage" it on live TV and risk exposure. I know for a fact that the audience member wasn't in on it and can think of a way or two that the page can end up in Jimmy's shoe without his knowledge. No sense saying it's fake- it's magic. Obviously, it's not "real". But it was entertaining.

[@warbreakr]

all right if you say so... how do you know the audience member wasn't in on it. You can't. cya

[@umbrainsidiatori1790]

Ummmm, because he is a magician as well? These are common tricks, hard as hell, but common. We've all seen them many many times, hell last year during a competition I saw 7 or so versions of this same effect lol. He's right, this is all legit and no one was in on it.

[@BGlasnost]

Weakest argument ever. He is risking nothing by staging a fake trick, only Jimmy needs to be in on the trick, which he clearly is. The woman is holding a trick book without her knowledge, and the member of the Roots is just opening up to the page he is told.

[@scribe570]

You are being gullible Rick Pompa. Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller has said that more often than not, when an audience member is chosen "at random", it is a stooge. That would take care of half the trick. White knows the word and knows the page # etc. of the dictionary. This wouldn't work here, but I've heard that when someone is chosen from far back in the audience, when an usher leads the person down the aisle or backstage first, they are often asked to go along with the gag and say a certain word when asked to think of a word or a card.

[@scribe570]

@@BGlasnost Yes, I didn't think Jimmy acted amazement very well. There's another video where a trick is done on some of his band members, and those guys go out of their minds.

[@Butterb0ne]

Jimmy's reaction was extremely underwhelmed compared to other magic tricks he's participated in.

[@Tscharlieh]

Maybe because the trick was not very good…

[@goatbaaad3711]

SPOILER: This is how he did the trick with the book that Jimmy had. He used two of the same book to do this trick. In the book that Jimmy has he had ripped the page out before the show and put it in Jimmys shoe. He then used the same page from a replicate book and cut out the top left corner, and taped one end of it to the back of the card. When Jimmy “picked” a page, no matter what page it was, he folded the card back with the rest of the book, but kept the part of the page he kept on the card on the front of the page that Jimmy really picked, making it look like he picked that page, and the whole time that page wasn’t really there

[@jackcarter1897]

sPOilEr!!! That’s not even how the trick works. It’s an old mentalist trick. He has a coin inside the book on the page he wants to force. Try this yourself. Put a coin in the middle of your book and thumb through the pages and it will always stop on the page the coin is at. He just thumbs through the pages until Jimmy says stop and he speeds up to reach where the coin is so it automatically stops riffling through on to the page he wanted to force. The page that is ripped out is at the back of the book. Have a look for yourself. The page Jimmy picked was in the middle and the page that was ripped out is at the back. That’s because the book is set up to have page 272 in the middle along with pages such as 100 etc. that way when Jimmy looks for that page again, he’s looking in a total different area from where the original page he saw is.

[@MrWatchavid]

Ok how did nobody tell her to turn to page 394, that's the real magic here.

[@michaelmcmahon5623]

@2:10 Dan: "How many letters - four or five?" Jimmy: "I don't know, I FOURget."

[@JaimeCivantosCapella]

1:44 and 6:06 Crearly not the same page

[@eSportsTrauma]

These comments... Lmao.... This just in, everyone on KZbin are professional magicians... 😂

[@prateek1703]

HOOLIGAN that's the point. if a layman can figure out what the trick was, then you aren't a good magician.

[@amisfitpuivk]

This is the age of the internet. Everyone can figure out nearly every trick.

[@anthony3476]

HOOLIGAN you don't have to be a genius or magician to know that this is fake bud

[@abythomas4585]

but that's the point...hardly anyone's figured it out. everyone keeps saying it's fake. But not only is it possible to do these sorts of acts without them being staged. you'd also be shunned by the magic community for staging them in the first place. Dan's a great magician with his own show. It'd be beneath him to stage a book test on live tv

[@bspiderm]

Aby Thomas wrong. It is not possible to insert the page into Jimmy's sole without staged.

[@phalanx6492]

its the card, the page is attached to card, the king of hearts is printed other end of the page so when when we look from the back it just looks like a normal card,so whatever jimmy picks he will pick pg 272.

[@charlietighe]

Anyone else recognize Brian Brushwood's book test.

[@CA2591]

Jimmy has the best, funny segments. He's my favorite late show

[@christiangarcia01]

You obviously haven’t seen Conan

[@g34r739f]

For all the people not familiar with this trick , it's called a book test

[@tomg.9589]

Def a variant on Book Test. Ungimmicked book for Jimmy w/ a page force.

[@ssantiago5231]

Tarik said that answer half heartedly almost like it wasnt there

[@jzaszczurynski]

I love everyone saying this is nothing compared to David Blaine. Like what just because of David Blaine no one else can do magic. So I guess I can't sit down and watch a game with James Harden playing because Lebron James exists.

[@RynkuViceroy]

Too perfect theory

[@THEAnnEla]

Why does everyone need to point out that it is fake. OF COURSE it's fake. We all know it's just a trick but we still don't understand how the heck he did that. That is the point.

[@derickjames2910]

It was rigged. He asked for an audience member that had READ the book. That's how Jimmy knew to pick the woman in an isle seat wearing all RED. And the paper in the shoe was not even possible unless rigged.

[@Boy-cz8uq]

fake is different from rigged. get tat in ur small brain 1st before offering ur valuable advice

[@hyacinthdibley]

ok. So here are my observations: 1) At 1:39, that card is in the middle area of the entire book. Toward the end, the ripped page looks closer to the end of the book. 2) 1:39. On the bottom of the right (odd) page (I assume this is page 273), there is a space before the new paragraph. 3) That space and paragraph disappear at 7:31. BUT!.... 4) When the page is replaced, the paragraph and space are there on the ripped page...if it is actually the same one page we saw earlier 5) SO.... there are two scenarios here.... A) The original page Jimmy was looking at was 270 on leaf 269/270; this would put the new paragraph on page 271 of leaf 271/272 (odd, right page)....this was eventually ripped out. Therefore Jimmy said the WRONG PAGE... OR... B) That was not even the page at all. For some reason, the location of the ripped page looked further toward the end of the book than where the card sat earlier.

[@lukaswoehr1618]

Honestly, I love this trick, I love magic, I love the Tonight show and I love Dan White,...BUT I feel like the only way this could happen is that the trick was rigged!😂😂😂

[@AdamMclardy]

Do you understand that all magic tricks are rigged?

[@AdamMclardy]

Do you understand that all magic tricks are rigged?

[@AdamMclardy]

Do you understand that all magic tricks are rigged?

[@AdamMclardy]

Do you understand that all magic tricks are rigged?

[@CoopBo]

As are all magic tricks

[@discgolfdaddy3726]

He is a frigin hypnotist!!!

[@RDDJWW]

The whole time the word I was thinking was "staged"

[@jarreals]

its a fucking show. enjoy it

[@rayankhaaan4600]

I was understanding everything that was going until the paper came out of his shoe ... LIKE WHAT?!? Amazing stuff!!!

[@omkarpatil2094]

Does he always carry that thing to remove the sole from a shoe?

[@leahsiemens1424]

Omkar Patil pretty sure it was part of the trick. He may have somehow slipped the paper in while he was handing him the knife. I'd like to have seen Jimmy find it with his back turned to the magician 😜

[@boreduser12]

Omkar's point is that Dan already knew the word would be sole.

[@gerotop]

There's no way he slipped it in when handing him the knife

[@user-lh7uf8vk4d]

He said that it could've been anywhere if jimmy had picked a different word instead of sole. But if he didn't know what word he would pick why did he have the sole tool?

[@bspiderm]

Mel : because it is all staged? And u r duped.

[@Dan-qj9ow]

That woman is absolutely stunning! I am going crazy! She is drop dead gorgeous!

[@MB-sj2yu]

Did you just get out of jail?

[@onlinerguy]

@@MB-sj2yu literally 4 years late there buddy, but nah, there's just something about here tbh

[@MB-sj2yu]

@@onlinerguy o wow 4 years late oh no i did not realize that lol I have a feeling you just got outta jail

[@armandovillarreal7948]

He said that if he had thought of a different word, it would've been in a different place, but the guy had a knife ready to be used for his shoe...

[@annikab2713]

Armando villarreal I'm blown away by this somewhat obvious observation.

[@lostryu1597]

Lots of ppl carry pocket knives on them. It’s literally in the name.

[@nathanwarzecha2943]

For anyone who thinks it's not pre-staged....look at how much is left behind "page 272" when the card is placed and how much less there is when Jimmy opens it at the end. Still a well orchestrated trick though, very smooth delivery

[@tors14]

This is the first time I felt like this was staged :(

[@ea2314]

This is staged

[@SynS7ven]

Staged as in the audience member was a plant? There is a simpler solution to that. It's a classic force.

[@thisisALI.i]

I can tell you for sure the book page disappearing was not

[@squeegie]

While everyone is looking at book, this dude sneaking some paper in Jimmy's shoe

[@annlys7728]

Man, after watching these things i always tell myself that i will learn how to do it but i never do cause im too lazy.

[@naxwit]

Annly S just prepare it before the show with the audience member and Jimmy. That's what he did anyway.

[@annlys7728]

Jorge Sánchez 😂 in this case it obvious that it is staged.

[@naxwit]

Annly S good that you noticed ^^ was worried. Some really simple but effective magic tricks are out there though, don't be discouraged

[@staindnirv]

You can buy this trick. Brian Brushwood created it. It isn't cheap though.

[@hunter4779]

The title in my browser tab just says Dan White Blows Jimmy. LMAO

[@Sophia42896]

but where did the card go?

[@billfisher97]

This is so much more fun to watch than slight of hand. 👍😁

[@kuro450]

2:50 the most staged "yeah" ever

[@jayczzzya]

0:21 girl in the back tried so hard to get Jimmy's attention but she still got denied

[@petiewheat82]

That part didn't matter, though. She could have chosen any word, the guy is using an earpiece that tells him from a database what page the word is in the dictionary. He just needs about 10-15 seconds for his helper to type the word into the database and relay the answer to him.

[@hardiktara]

Well this wasn't all staged. When he riffles through the book with the card, the card itself is a gimmick. It has a piece of page no. 272 sticked behind it. So wherever he stops page 272 will pop up anytime.

[@starxhilmie]

nah man, this is the work of the devil !

[@naxwit]

Hardik Tara or it's just a cover up for the "force" of the page with the first word "sole". If it were a real selection he'd just let him choose any word without needing a book. But it could be a gimmicked card too

[@davidmtwigg]

Hardik Tara pleased I figured it out b4 seeing your answer. His clumsy separation and realignment of the split apart card at 1:25 and the following coincidentally card-sized death grip on the top corner of the book confirms it.

[@gmjpharmd8823]

Dan looks at his "cheat sheet" in the back of book at 4:49

[@timaglam9140]

nobody: absolutely nobody: ppl in the comments: he must have cheated in some ways oh seriously??? I THOUGHT HE IS A REAL WIZARD FROM HOGWARTS

[@RA-wp6th]

True! Although with the mind reading thing - some people can do that - they're just really good at looking at the way the mouth is pursed & body language

[@johnwawesome1506]

Jimmy Fallon acting improved alot clearly a rehearsed trick

[@Internet_Channel]

lol at all the salty magic critics in the comments

[@TheSpinbeast]

Arguably the best use of the book trick out there, nested 3 times

[@PantherKraft]

it's staged as in he set up for the trick. 1. he made the card stop at his page of choice. 2. that page of choice was around the middle of the book, but in the end, it's near the end of the book. so obviously his page of choice was page 272 and it was printed somewhere random In the book so later on, when he flipped to 272, it would look like it was the page he read earlier. 3. Each page in the Harry Potter book as one large word, which is halfheartedly. OR the book was rigged so if anyone was to open to a random page, it would open to the page where there is maybe 4-5 large words that he can easily memorize the page in the dictionary of those 4-5. 5. 272 was planted in his shoe by the magician before he Jimmy put them on. How else would the word be sole??

[@rsisthecoolest]

L

[@Spotto26]

Pantherkraft damn, I was convinced it was all fake, but this makes it believable

[@joshiejx]

Pantherkraft but how would he know the page number was 272

[@Spotto26]

Joshiejx had it marked or practiced it to the point where he always stopped on that page

[@PantherKraft]

Joshiejx he had the page prob nubbed or something with his finger so he knew what page he was flipping to when Jimmy put the card in. No matter when Jimmy said "stop" he woulda just made sure the card stopped at that page

[@benjaminfranklin4149]

These comment sections are always such a drag. People trying to reveal how it's done for attention. Bitter, negative people griping about how this part was staged, this part was obvious, blah blah blah. Magic is a performing art. It is meant to be experienced in the moment, not played back repeatedly on video, dissected bit by bit. It's entertainment, so just enjoy it or don't and stfu so the rest of everyone can appreciate it. Knowing how something is done doesn't make you able to perform it. Understanding the secret behind a trick doesn't make you a magician, let alone a professional. Just because something doesn't involve super technical sleight-of-hand doesn't mean it isn't challenging to perform for a live audience. Doesn't mean it doesn't require practice, mastery, timing, wit, acting, and other technique. Some of the people on here are absolute basement dwellers.

[@ThatsABadMrKitteh]

Some people enjoy trying to figure it out, relax

[@benjaminfranklin4149]

@@ThatsABadMrKitteh People can try to solve the puzzle all they want. Just don't be a turd in the pool about it, spoiling it for everyone else because you crave attention and validation. And you can pound sand telling people to relax. This may not matter to you or I, but people like Dan make their living performing. Some jerk on youtube making videos or posting to reveal your hard work as a professional is messed up. But I doubt you get that.

[@markbensley138]

Fallon was in on it. he went straight to his right foot when it could have been​ either

[@JamesWiseMagic]

Calvin Rhine he wasn't in on it. rewatch it again, Dan white clearly points to his right foot shoe.

[@kaceface3277]

GET INVOLVED DUDE 😂

[@kristianrasmussen9686]

That may well have been a milestone for me and my opinion of Jimmy Fallon's antics. lol

[@Brainbuster]

Mark the time for once in your life.

[@cheerfuljuan]

The real magic in this video is how absolutely beautiful that one girl is. My goodness

[@Naet93]

False front on the playing card so when lined up correctly with the page it pulls apart showing the false page number and presumably a few words making it appear to be a real page. You can tell by how he held the book with 4 fingers to cover the bottom of the false piece of paper, and how he had his thumb placed perfectly to avoid opening the book too far. The female in the audience was a part of his act. Perfectly placed, and stood out just enough to grab the average persons (Jimmy) attention. I had no doubt he was going to pick her before he even got to her. The dictionary was just for added effect. Which is why it didn't matter who Jimmy gave the dictionary to. The outcome would've been the same regardless. With the shoes, it's simple. Jimmy almost always wears the same shoes. It's just a matter of having a matching pair prepped and ready, then making the swap before he gets dressed.

[@samkellman]

staged but that girl was beautiful

[@pastaboinch]

yup. if they're gunna plant someone in the audience they might as well get the most attractive person they can find.

[@TylerScottIllusionist]

The girl wasn't a plant. No one was in on the trick.

[@KingRockets]

explain the second part of the trick then? when she has the freedom to choose absolutely ANY word in the entire harry potter book. Must have been a plant

[@csmmurphy425]

KingRockets I watched a video on how to do this and you definitely don't need another person for this, it just is supposed to make people feel even more surprised than the trick made them. KZbin channel named card shuffler 99 showed how to do the trick (you could just look up how to do the trick, it's not original)

[@TylerScottIllusionist]

I don't reveal magic because it's against my ethics. Watch the clip again, are you sure she had the freedome to choose "ANY" word as you put it. I won't give anything away but about that Harry Potter book, looks can be deceiving. That's all I will say for now to prove that there were no plants for this performance.

[@xs1972]

All prepared...if not?! True magic

[@brooKlynKiteflyer]

You don't need any magic trick to blow Jimmy's mind. His mind will self implode at least 50 times regardless who is in front of him during the taping of his show.

[@charlesburditt6262]

Jimmy is in in the act and he memorized the dictionary by letter..... Ooooooh

[@akhilesh2601]

What if the lady chose a House name (Gryffindor or Slytherin...) or Character name (Dumbledore or Hermione...) from Harry Potter? Does that dictionary include these words?

[@leahsiemens1424]

Akhilesh Tekade yeah, my first thought was "Dumbledore." Although he did ask her if it was a real word. She should have just chosen it anyways 😜

[@akhilesh2601]

Leah Siemens 😂

[@macsdf1]

cause it's a fake book with all small words, and one big word that she will have to notice, it's probably the only big long word on the page. every page of the book is probably like that.

[@john50beach18]

I think he specified "a real word?" at some point to the lady

[@Ana-bt4qq]

just WOW!

[@StormyWeather21]

forget Dan White, let's talk about the girl holding the harry Potter book😘

[@dimitreze]

the card opened a fake page wich the magician already knew the word. the 272 page was already ripped and on jimmy's shoe the harry potter book have the same 2 pages on the entire book and the only big word is half-hearted.

[@SimplyCanadian]

I hate his theriatrics.. Must be nervous. But also I don't really like how magicians draw things out. I enjoy the cut and dry magic I guess..

[@FanTaasYY]

Just look at 4:50 when he asks Taric to open the dictionary on page 325. He has it already written somewhere

[@SerenityReceiver]

Sure any magic "tricks" are staged/fake but this is just so obvious that it's not fun anymore.

[@clintbrunke2074]

how its done. step one , nph's book. you force the riffle (any time a magician asked you to tell him when to stop a riffle, rather then you riffle your self, he is forcing the riffle ) this means no matter when you say stop he will stop in a predetermined place. now you notice in the video , dan white does not open the book up all the way, this is because the page is already ripped. when he clloses the boo and removes the card he folds the page quick and you can actually spot him pocket the page. now this trick requires pre set up . he had to "load a replicant page" into jimmys shoe. this is something magicians do all the time in some ones pocket or personal belongings. now for the harry potter book. this could be done one of a few ways . one the pages are fake and written so half heartedly is on most pages. or he memorizes large words in the book and their corresponding pages in the dictionary. this is way harder to do but I have seen some people do it. it is a fairly popular trick. so most likely they are fake pages. neither jimmy nor the auidence member are in on it. best way to know an audience member is in on it is if either the magician picks them him self or picks by seat number .

[@soccerX1000]

This is faker than Jimmy's Laugh

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

spoilers. I'm here after watching the reveal video (search 2017 fallon reveal) and it's a blast watching this unfold! the whole trick stems from that playing card... like why on earth is he using a random card riffle through a book? the other trick is the goblet of fire book, there were only 500 of those books made, sold for $1200 a pop. Really fun stuff. Basically just memorization, but the showmanship is what sells it!

[@gonzzceli]

Thank goodness he didn't rip that page from the Harry Potter book...

[@leahsiemens1424]

Celines Gonzalez I know, right? 😜

[@gonzzceli]

Leah Siemens absolutely 😨😅

[@Jazzyyy32]

Wowww that guy is awesome👏

[@maxholt2869]

David Blaine is still the king

[@Mike_mainidea]

when jimmy told him to stop at the beginning of the trick the magician clearly stopped in the middle of the book. when jimmy opened to page 272 it was very much towards the end at 6:29 jimmy slightly looks at his shoe before any mention was made of his shoes. At 6:33 jimmy clearly looks at his shoes again a split second before the guy mentions his shoes. jimmy took off his right shoe automatically after being instructed to "take off your shoe" how did he know to take off the right shoe?

[@hirushinz]

The word 'halfheartedly' doesn't exist in Harry potter and the Goblet of Fire :/ Busted

[@keller02jk]

The page he chose his word from was on the left side of the book, but the page that was ripped out was on the right side of the book.

[@wilt013]

Haven't watch the vid yet I know Jimmy will fake react everything

[@MRHGaming]

he does that to enhance our reaction

[@jordanmuntz8270]

DJ Wilt He actually acted pretty realistically this time

[@bspiderm]

Jimmy Two-Times You are wrong. If everyone does what you say then there would be no such thing as critic, only praise. Right?

[@KazuyaYuza]

No page looks like that when you tear it out :)

[@thakatsceid]

Come on! People believe that shit?

[@sebasrojas00]

It's actually not that complicated. Dan influences Jimmy to chose the spot he (Dan) wants on the book and places the card exactly where he puts it, on a page he has already decided before hand (the page he actually has already ripped off and placed inside Jimmy's shoe backstage without Jimmy noticing). The Harry book opens to the page he chose to. The girl opens it and it opens to the page chosen by Dan (he kinda influences her to stay on that page as soon as she opens it). In that page there are probably not that many long words, so it's very probable that the word "half-heartedly" will be chosen since it's quite a long word. Or maybe it's a rigged book containing similar pages with smaller words except for "half-heartedly". Anyhow, she has to come up with that word and she easily does. The number Dan writes down is known by him because he already knows the word the girl is gonna chose is "half-heartedly" , so no surprise there with the dictionary stunt. And finally, like I said before, he already placed the ripped page in Jimmy's shoe backstage without him noticing, and he knows it's that page because he chose it when he told Jimmy to choose a spot on the book, which he actually chose himself. It's not that thick of a book so he just moved it slightly when Jimmy tells him to stop. It's pretty clever trick though and very well executed.

[@SenorChubbs420]

Look at where the playing card was placed, then look at the torn page. The torn page was practically at the end of the book. The paperback version of the book has 320 pages. This was not a good trick.

[@liloiax22]

might be the MOST staged truck I've ever seen before in my life!

[@saraesmayili]

well first of all jimmy look at his shoes a little soon so it makes me think they setting up the hole thing and to more proof just look at the frames and the sound in 6:32 to 6:33 , they clearly editing the video :)

[@vinish542]

Jimmy Fallon in such a bad actor why does nobody recognize this

[@januarybaby1063]

Everyone recognises it, that's literally what half the comments are about

[@panakattack]

Dan White makes a good salesman.

[@stevenhyland4110]

This shit was set up. How did Jimmy know to go to his right shoe straight away.

[@leahsiemens1424]

Steven Hyland yeah, I was thinking "soul" like maybe it was in his breast pocket or something 😜

[@tord2354]

Maybe cuz the magician pointed to the right one stupid

[@redman73xz]

He had a 50/50 chance of choosing his right shoe. And your probably going to go to your more dominant side first.

[@schenksaus]

Jimmy is in on it. You can clearly see there are alot less pages the second time the book got opened (on the right side). The girl in the audience, obviously same thing.

[@MccoyHayden]

you guys are acting like magic is real or something all magic is staged lmao

[@videossubtituladosporfranc4240]

Best trick ever!

[@armangeddongaming9237]

this was soooo obviously staged it makes me mad. Jimmy, the band member, and possibly the lady in the audience was in on this. I will never believe any magic trick I see on the internet untill someone does it right in front of me.

[@karalis290]

It wasn't staged. It just involved trick books.

[@yanivsteltzer8425]

this same exact trick was done on "Fool Us" in front of Penn&Teller Its not staged. its a real trick.

[@gameguru1234]

This is absolutely a real trick. Diarmund needs to visit Magician school at some stage.

[@clarakf]

What a sad life man. Magic tricks are awesome. Why not believe them?

[@paulahyland7688]

This is this guy's livelihood. This is how he attracts his audience. Not by doing silly staged tricks with everyone in on them like a clown at a kid's party. Do you think he's going to put his career in jeopardy by doing that?

[@Shebeast3]

Awesome awesome awesome!

[@prakharagrawal8622]

First youtube video I ever disliked

[@freeman2]

2:56 Oh shit where did white chewbacca come from?! :O

[@mechanichalpixels]

Jimmy Fallon is a great actor ;)

[@stevebrown6124]

he whispered soul to him.