Magician REACTS to Graham Jolley FUNNY & skillful card magic on Penn and Teller FOOL US

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Magician reacts to Graham Jolley 2011 performing amazing card trick magic for Penn and Teller on their show Penn & Teller Fool Us 2011. Graham Jolley is a British magician who fools Penn & Teller and wins with his mind-blowing card magic effect. That's right Graham Jolley is a fooler! A Fool Us Winner! Plus he performs some funny magic mentalism at the beginning. Comedy magic never hurts! And his jokes are actually very good. This video shows the reaction of someone familiar with magic so you can see how someone in this field feels about the performance! This is Fool Us Season 1 2011 s01e02. Were you watching when the first season began? I'm going back and reacting to each and every episode... come along with me for the journey! :)
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[@JasonParkerMagic]

Hey there, hope you're doing well! I was very impressed with both Graham's magic and his humor. What did you think? Comment below! I am currently going back and reacting to each and every Fool Us episode from the beginning... come along for the journey: SMASH subscribe. 👍🏻 --- Social media & Etc --- INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/JasonParkerMagic TWITTER: twitter.com/JasonParkerNow PATREON: Support this channel + behind-the-scenes content ---> www.patreon.com/JasonParker

[@brettleisy356]

this I am almost positive is a gamblers trick, he tucked their cards then did a basic version of a false deal, pulling their cards out at the right number of counted cards. [edit] also first trick it is a special box that would in someway trigger another device most likely in his shoe that would signal which ball he picked up. so all he had to do is remember the order of colours as they were removed from the box.

[@brettleisy356]

moral of the story... dont trust someone that has anything to gain from you being a fool.

[@JasonParkerMagic]

@@brettleisy356 That's really well put! :)

[@enfuegobuddha]

Hey Jason, you're a great KZbinr. I was wondering. How do you make a living in Ukraine?

[@dalesenior7255]

😀😁😂 I'm sorry but that is NOT how you pronounce snooker

[@sniffableandirresistble]

16:15 "I haven't eaten" ... lol 😆 I'm definitely using that

[@paulthomas8262]

I think his skill is appearing clueless and clumsy, when he is a shark.

[@mrcolincox]

Snooker is a game that makes Pool look painfully easy.

[@clotho5437]

Jonathan Ross is so hillarious. I look at him as the Conan O' Brein of UK.

[@fatiieljaouhari2472]

Omg yesss

[@davidbartmess6843]

I love that card effect. It is a Simon Aronson effect, and the trick is so good, that you can follow Simon’s instructions, and fool yourself!

[@kimflores6359]

Yes it's such a simple method and can be played many ways, love the thinking behind this

[@grgryl]

Is it in Bound to Please?

[@Tirando_Ideas]

That kind of rivalry between Penn&Teller vs. Jonathan Ross was so funny I wish they would bring if back just for a special

[@thestudentmagician7756]

Forever living for the way Jason says ‘snuker’ instead of ‘snooker’

[@giustobuffo]

I love watching your videos. As a person interested in magic, but without any skills myself, I enjoy watching magicians and attempting to figure it out. It feels gratifying when I’m fooled, and even better when you are fooled as well. Keep up the fun work! And Aesop lol

[@jakeatwood4440]

I’ve seen a lot of fool us and this has to be in my top 5 favorite performances.

[@mikemclenison8200]

The trick and performance were perfecto! He owned the stage.

[@karleenstewart6975]

Jason, again you have put a smile upon my face 😄! Excellent review of Graham’s show; I enjoy your commentary. Through your facial expressions, I could see the wheels of your mind doing double time! Maybe the moral of AF could be: think before speaking, choose your words wisely and always follow through! 🦵🐺

[@knites09]

Thanks Jason, I started watching you and you make a great entertainment. I enjoy your show and hopefully you get a TV show one day on this magic.

[@billyjeffersoniv4344]

Really great video, Jason!!! Thank you!

[@MilaN-lt2mq]

I am not a magician. I have coordination issues, so I could never even learn how to shuffle the cards, leave alone doing any slight of hand. But I love close-up magic. I "stumbled" onto your channel while I am cooped up at home. I just love your commentary. It's like watching a magic performance with a friend. Thank you :-)

[@bigbadbyrnes]

You are made of purity and sunshine, Jason.

[@RobertBallMagician]

This is a great effect. Have not seen this in a long while. 😊😊👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏

[@mendozajovy]

First time i saw this magician in youtube. He is so good and entertaining.

[@nursen2106]

that was great - and your reaction as well :-D

[@luigicorvi1661]

THE man is a complete entertainer....pure magic and GREAT wit.

[@late8641]

Apart from being an amazing magician, this dude is funny and cool as hell.

[@DavidM-lj5yv]

I was actually more fooled by the first ball effect. At first I thought I would know-- but because he told Jonathan where to put each ball even before the balls left the box-- I am not sure how he'd get any "feedback" on which pocket to have him put the ball/s in. If he had waited until after Jonathan picked up each ball then the answer would be pretty apparent--. .-- but he actually told him which pocket before the ball left the case?? Keep up the great work Jason-- most entertaining channel on KZbin!!!!

[@dracopalidine]

I figured it had to be a force somehow with the prediction at the end. That was great.

[@sgs1313]

this was a great trick I had learned years ago, that was a false shuffle and there is no force, but it is a mathematical algorithm and the deck is definitely preset, which he proves with the numbers on the cards, it's more mysterious if you don't do that...keep up the great videos Jason!

[@4familyandfriendsURL]

I agree. Having the numbers written points to a math trick.

[@johnkean6852]

This gentleman is a real discovery and most entertaining. His act _appears_ simple (l am sure its a math trick) but to make it look smooth and simple can be quite difficult l imagine 🤔

[@Stefan13579100]

I have seen this exact trick on mismag88's channel 8 years ago. The video is called "Graham Jolley FOOL US Card Trick Revealed" (fyi: Jason, i don't wanna redirect any traffic from your channel, you're awesome). It's a really smart method and you might have a look just to tease your brain a little bit.

[@tobiasbentedelmann2079]

It is a math trick, yes

[@harleyjones6222]

Graham Jolley is a pro's pro. That dude has skills for days.

[@davidwhogg]

Did you notice that he fumbles slightly on each of the card counts. Could that be masking a move? He’s incredible with the cards so the fumbles seem artificial.

[@TheJovan211]

Maybe, but how would he know which cards they chose?

[@functional-tim]

The fumbles are for entertainment I think. Or nervousness. The trick doesn't need any special moves at that point. The only important moves are how the cuts are put together initially and how the cuts are put together after removing the jokers.

[@LachimusPrime]

Ohhhh, so you think he counted how many cards away the cuts were from the jokers..??

[@functional-tim]

@@LachimusPrime He didn't have to count. The way the cards were put together both times is all that is needed. The trick is simply mathematics and the humans inability to see patterns this big.

[@AleksandarIvanov69]

Hey, Jason! One of my favorite acts on Fool Us is Kostya Kimlat's (first appearance!) the closeup self-rearranging deck. You really gotta check it out and record a reaction :)

[@hansrojas9487]

@@mikeonthebox i recently view an explanation for Penns hate. Penn said that when Kostya was announced, Teller said to him "we're screwed". Penn said on his podcast that he knows 20 variants, Teller knows 20 more, and they didn't catch the movement. P&T did a variant of the same trick a few days before on tv, promoting the show; and Kostya did the same trick with Penn burning his hands; Penn knew in the middle of the trick that Kostya did the special movement and he didn't catch it.

[@chandanahettiaratchi3004]

Grate performance, I live it

[@StrangeDuck]

dont know why you are having trouble solving this, Jonathan told us it was magic. easy

[@nunotcg6291]

You can learn this trick on mismags chanel and cardshuffler99 channel

[@unbroken1010]

Dude is funny. And that very old-school British sitcom type of way

[@EdwinRamos89]

Love the channel.

[@kingrobert1st]

WTF? He didn't collect his FU trophy! Some great lines...perfect humour...excellent sleight of hand, spontaneous what more? A perfect magic show!

[@keeblem1]

I loved the performance and I love your videos, Jason. But I have no idea how he did it!

[@stvbrsn]

This is truly one of the best effects I’ve seen. Period. Two banks (one K, one 5, spades) was the only thing I could think of, since a force seemed necessary, but impossible in the circumstances. And I kept wondering why P&T didn’t examine the deck while deliberating. Then, finally they did and... wow. Just wow.

[@plusjeremy]

I got addicted to snooker when I lived in Europe and I’m an absolute fanatic for the game. (Watching it, not playing it.) It’s like chess and pool mixed into one. Of course, I also like watching backgammon matches on KZbin...

[@JasonParkerMagic]

I didn't know how to black backgammon most of my life.... and a friend taught me 2 years ago for the first time.... surprisingly fun game!

[@TheJovan211]

Great effect!

[@kbrown4ou]

From having been to a taping of Fool Us about three years ago I can confirm that, at least during the taping I was at, Penn and Teller did have more time to discuss the possibilities between each other longer than it appears in the edited/ televised episode, not a great deal longer; but, perhaps 2-3 times longer than it appears. Which seemed fair. If you’re in Vegas I would encourage you to attend one of the tapings, especially given the fact they’re free to attend just via signing up online. I believe the tapings are on Sunday afternoons and I was able to get a ticket by signing up on like the Wednesday before the Sunday taping.

[@ezequiel_reis]

Nice reaction!!! The snooker ball trick don't know exactly how it's done but i know like you one or two ways to do it, the card trick it's so good, it was one of the first tricks that I've learned it's from Simon Aronson if I'm not mistaken. Keep up the great work

[@JasonParkerMagic]

You are correct it is from Simon Aronson! nice memory! :)

[@kenpearce3269]

I enjoyed all 23:22 minutes of it! Graham had great energy and was entertaining ( so were you!) 😊

[@ASMRyouVEGANyet]

He talks so fast he could rap. 😆😆

[@jeffborowiak8992]

What a journey.

[@kylemcclureazadsalahazadi6529]

Blue got me. I LOVE IT!!!

[@abdellatifmagic2324]

Best of luck bro

[@Kreifi]

Snooker ofc! Been watching it like 15 years. Quite known and popular in Europe/UK and China. Very interesting and hard sport.

[@abdellatifmagic2324]

I love your videos

[@JasonParkerMagic]

thanks :)

[@joepollardmagic]

I know how that trick is done and then first shuffle at the beginning relies on a completely perfect riffle haha thats ballsy

[@aggalion]

A lot of fun

[@alanmurray5963]

Good man Graham! 🎩 🪄 ✨️

[@abirdynumnum9612]

British humor (humour) works by often being seriously understated :-) (As a Brit one can learn but it helps to live there). He is hilarious. Love his "banter." But producing Jokers blank-backed at first, THEN with numbers on the back...that was amazing.

[@MegaAndyblue]

Just finished a few games of snooker before watching these

[@AndrewCheshire]

I like your wolf voice lol

[@MrAnkA21]

Gday mate like always love well like alot love's a bit strong your video...what are your favorite 2 tricks to show people at parties ect? Do you make videos like that

[@JasonParkerMagic]

I have a few performance videos you can see of me on my YT channel home page under Street Magic playlist. :) Favorites now are Two Card Monte. And probably OOTW or Red Hot Mama.

[@lavernmbutura9558]

I learnt this trick on mismag KZbin channel quite a while ago...its really cool

[@bluebubbletron]

Wouldn't have known about this episode if it weren't for your channel. Regards, Bryan Marcus.

[@martinmillar7137]

I always remember this one.. to this day i still have no idea what he did.. you're right about the host snapping at their heels (so to speak) however..I'd argue penn and teller don't need time after the fact to figure it out..i think and i beleive that the deliberation period should be short.. the real magic happens during performance and thus should they be dumbfounded during said performance...then job done..effect successful 😁

[@johnkean6852]

Aesop: it's _dog-eat-dog_ out there: just ensure you don't get on the menu 🤔

[@abdulrobertrogers8563]

Its been a while Welcome

[@johnkean6852]

Aesop: Every time famous celebs leave the house, even for a _bite_ to eat, there's always someone who wants to get _their_ teeth stuck into them 🤔

[@peterfieldscovers944]

Snooker is very popular in UK, and yes it has very different rules from billiard.

[@johnkean6852]

Made popular by UK army soldiers.

[@ceen3237]

It's a much larger table and the colours are more important than in billiards.

[@tessjuel]

Snooker *is* billiard. Billiard is a generic term for all cue sports, including snooker, pool, carom and several others.

[@TheTCM]

I think its pronounced snoooooker, and i think billiard is like whole stick balls on table thing but snooker is a special variant of it I think the womans clothing thing was a monty python reference, but what do I know Great act, I was thinking that like half was King of Spades and rest was 5 of Spades but then they where allowed to look at the deck and it was a normal deck, so yeah.. no idea. Nice content as always :)

[@RaptureReady2025]

TheTCM Ohhhhhhhhhh, I’m a lumberjack and I’m okay, I sleep all night and i work all day. I put on women’s clothing and hang around in bars???

[@jerredmiklowcic]

Awesome video as always dude. I have to ask... when you are fooled by the performance do you find yourself searching for the answer online afterwards?? Or is that kind of lame to do as a magician? I always have to look it up online afterwards if I'm still uncertain.... >.

[@JasonParkerMagic]

Yep I totally looked up the solution after making this video. Funny thing is that how this trick works is kinda strange... like... I watched the tutorial..... but it's still a little confusing exactly how it works. I might try and show it to my friend tomorrow and see how he reacts - pretty sure he doesn't watch my videos. :-D

[@sbaxter4207]

i used to like it when Teller would write down the possible method, show the magician and then set fire to the paper.

[@rons3103]

Jason, not a magician, but I believe I know how he did it. Its all about those Jokers and where they were when the trick began (Not much of a cut at the beginning)! Of course there is an "Order" to follow when placing the cards back together and a Vegas No-No when playing blackjack. Your right, not much time for P&T to think on it.

[@pyratemage]

Talented and funny! A simple buzzer for the snooker effect. He told him where to put the balls. Yes, the initial "shuffle" was pretty obvious. Baffled though. 🤔

[@Jaze1618]

hope you'll react to Asi Wind's performance from 2019 fool us christmas episode

[@4familyandfriendsURL]

I actually thought that trick was obvious. I was VERY surprised that it fooled them.

[@johnkean6852]

Aesop: you can out-fox even your worst enemies if you have a mind for survival 🤔

[@steve03au]

Silver iodide paper (photographic paper) under the balls - the duration between ball removal leaves a shaded strip dark to light in the sequence. The box was immediately flipped to preserve the shading and prevent further exposure.

[@JoeScottish]

Moral "Keep to your trade."

[@RedRooster-xj4uk]

I actually knew that trick and its impossible to mess up - pure maths.

[@johnjohn-cs9eu]

He: "snookered" _me_ no idea how he did that

[@flacivious3747]

🤗👍very nice

[@MrXBT2000]

He was honest about the method of the second trick - it is indeed the jokers that tell him where their cards are... You caught one important detail without realizing, as it was not yet anything suggesting that it had importance. The second one was not in the camera frame. I once prepped my playing card deck for this trick before a game night with my friends (using slightly different numbers). I'm not skilled at that kind of shuffle, but relied on my friends' lack of attention to what was going on at the start. They seemed pretty amazed.

[@alenphull]

I think you're on to something with the gimmicked box: my guess is it has some kind of foam which expanded over time that the balls rested on, one look at the empty box and you could tell what order the balls were selected in

[@agkadventures2113]

Numbers 9 and 18 are really important in this trick, specially number 9 ;-)

[@johnjohn-cs9eu]

Ace 👍

[@orevbgreen4743]

Funny!

[@PsychoMurdoctor]

(1) He had P&T put their piles back in the opposite order. (2) The jokers were already in the deck with the numbers printed on them. (3) We didn't see the order in which he put the piles back together after extracting the jokers (as you noted). Given all of that, I figured there was some kind of math-based control going on... and after crunching the numbers/variables a bit, I figured out how to exactly replicate what he did -- without ANY trickery or fancy manipulation whatsoever. First, you put the joker with the "43" on it between the 9th and 10th cards in the deck, and put the joker with the "18" on it between the 27th and 28th cards. That's all the setup you need (so he must have been doing false shuffles at the start, as you suggested). Now, you have spectator #1 take the top third (which will undoubtedly include the first joker, but not the second) and memorize the bottom card. Spectator #2 then takes half of the rest (since the second joker is just past the halfway point of the original deck, that should be part of what they grab) and memorize the bottom card. The two stacks then go back on the deck in reverse order. Next, you fan out the deck and find the jokers, splitting the deck into three parts: Top, Middle, and Bottom. When you reassemble the deck, switch the Middle and Bottom parts. Now, spectator #1's card will be at position #18 and spectator #2's card will be at position #43, exactly as the jokers "predict". It's completely self-working if you set it up right. I figured it would be a bit much to post how the mathematics of it work, though...

[@traviswinkler3994]

Bravo! It is the brilliant trick of the late Simon Aronson, whose entire, voluminous body of work is equally impressive.

[@onlyguitar1001]

What a funny bloke

[@studpuppet469ishere7]

My opinion on first effect is reflection from someone's glasses or stage.

[@jamesbevan9939]

So where exactly would you obtain one of those specialty boxes that registers when an object is removed?

[@JasonParkerMagic]

Not sure... there are so many sources for buying magic products... old and new.... it's a maze out there! Only my speculation for how it could work. When I was a child I had a cheap motion detector device, and you could put it in a drawer. When the drawer was opened it would make a noise. I imagine the same principle could be applied here... except mine was technology from 30 years ago.

[@jamesbevan9939]

@@JasonParkerMagic Thanks. I did find a similar version that works for colored markers from a magic supplier.

[@peters616]

Here's my theory. He handled the deck before and after Penn placed his cards in so was able to place the jokers in to mark where the cards were - it was very hard to see him do this in the video but maybe he's just very good at that sleight. He prepicked the two numbers to approximate 1/3 and 2/3 way through the deck and counted on Penn and Teller to follow his instructions fairly well when choosing their cuts. Then when he spread the cards out he quickly counted the difference between the two marker points and where the chosen cards are which was probably just a few cards. Then he adjusted the cards by taking the from the surplus side and shifting them to the other side very quickly when he pushed the cards back together after pulling the jokers out. Or alternatively (but I don't think likely) he false dealt to make the adjustment.

[@Frzned9x]

> counted on Penn and Teller to follow his instructions fairly well when choosing their cuts thatd be called forcing which he said he didnt

[@dazuk1969]

What an amazing card trick. That is the kind of trick/act you can only do after decades of practise. My head is officially spannerd and I don't even wanna know how he did that...rEspect.

[@BvBCrafty]

lol how many of you have heard of snooker? :D hello?! 21st century mate, snooker has probably more interests and viewers than billard.

[@groznyentertainment]

There is so much to learn. The ball prediction is a 1950s trick by Al Koran mentospheres.

[@lancetschirhart7676]

Your glasses and accent don't fool me for one second, Benie.

[@RyanTradesFutures]

I wonder if something important was cut from the video, because it didn't look like the deck was shuffled or cut after Penn and Teller put their cards back because since Penn put it back first, I would expect Penn's card to be deeper in the pack then Teller's. But Penn's card was 18 and Teller's was 43...

[@johnkean6852]

Aesop: always keep your wits about you at lunch meetings then you can surprise even the coyliest 🤔

[@thumbwiz]

My guess is that he got them to choose from a loaded deck (only King and 5 of spades). Then while doing his comedy and twirling the deck, he switched it for a stacked deck where the King and 5 were already in the correct order. The original deck of kings and 5s remained in his pocket while the final deck was examined. The camera switching make it difficult or impossible to see the transition.

[@marctompkins3001]

Jason, first off; I had never seen this video before. I thought I had seen all of them, many of them I’ve seen several times. If it wasn’t for the two cuts, I would say that there was a force involved. I don’t think for a minute that either jokers spoke to him, but seeing the numbers written on the back in permanent marker, that there does prove that a force was involved. I just don’t understand how. I think that the placement of the two jokers, did somehow identify Penn’s card along with Teller card. A head scratcher!

[@marctompkins3001]

Jason, today I ran across another video on KZbin. It was titled: Graham Jolley Fool Us. Trick revealed

[@4familyandfriendsURL]

Hi. Since he didn't name the cards and only predicted location, this speaks to using math and not using a force.

[@singleasasin]

Excelent magic tricks, completed by that awsome story :-) Maybe, the moral of the story, from wolf point of view, could be : "stick with what you're good at, for easy living, because, changes will bring to unpredicted results !", while, from the other point of view, could be :"sometimes, being smarter than others, helps !" :-)

[@JasonParkerMagic]

Well said!

[@dakotababyak1842]

The trick is called, Whispering Jokers. You can learn it on MisMag822’s/TheCardTrickTeacher’s channel. It’s super easy. Only a little bit of preparation for the trick. Once you practiced the trick for a little bit, you’ll be able to perform it the same day.

[@iancole931]

As I've mentioned on many occasions P&T's programmers delete critical parts in the act knowing that the viewers will study these parts frame by frame and possibly see how the trick is done.

[@billgreen3138]

long ago there was a illusionist magician did same or simouar card trick and every age group showing how its done on youtube video channel back in the day

[@blayne888]

This is one of the few magic tricks I can perform. It’s about pre deck arrangement and math. Nothing else.

[@kingbradley9066]

I think it would be funny if you wrote "subscribe" on the bottom of your cup. Whenever you take a drink, my attention is zeroed in on that cup, looking for something hidden. Hahaha

[@sbaxter4207]

Is the table standard fool us furniture? also I do wish we could watch the magician without the long cuts away. Then we could see if he may have loaded the jokers into the deck after the selections.

[@goldeneddie]

Time and time again I come back to Graham Jolley's wonderful performance - what an absolute pro he is! And I'm always amazed that experienced magicians don't recognise this trick - I think Graham's banter and style just has us laughing so much that we can't think! I for one enjoyed his witty approach so much that I stopped trying to work it out and just wanted him to win a trophy!

[@glennjohnson3260]

Did any one else notice that he fumbled the cards at the start of each count. I believe that is when he placed the cards or palmed them so when he got to the number he wanted he could show them.

[@jrpeet]

Fooled me