Penn and Teller Fool Us. Magician Ali Cook swaps the heads on a chicken and duck!

[@ethanclark85]

I’m totally lost. Best theory I have is that the birds aren’t real and their heads are detachable but that’s just me lol

[@alicookofficial]

Hahaha 🤣 thanks

[@autumneagle]

@@jacksonbyers7423 pokemon sword and shield beat you to it

[@nickroberts6984]

They are quite real 🙂

[@juniorjohnson5961]

That's what I thought too 😂

[@k0lpA]

@@Chase11211 yep you got it

[@oryan4395]

I think I figured it out. Those were the animals he sacrificed to Satan before he took the stage.

[@alicookofficial]

At last. Someone guessed correctly

[@joelutzow5034]

😂😂😂

[@reverendgaddy2435]

Very few people know this, but this is actually the basis of the very Very VERY first magic trick, performed as pure entertainment, in recorded history. The story is described in the Egyptian artifact called "The Westcar Papyrus." Literally, the oldest trick in the book. Very well done, sir!!!

[@alicookofficial]

Thanks! And everything you say is true. It really is the oldest recorded magic trick as performed by the Egyptian magician called Dedi for the Pharoah.

[@Corn0nTheCobb]

Interesting!

[@alicookofficial]

@@Corn0nTheCobb Thanks Josh

[@geniferteal4178]

I could just hear Penn and Teller in there after trick talk. Some people might say this is the oldest trick in the book. LOL

[@ryanr9299]

no kidding?? Thats awesome!

[@guillermofuenzalida4154]

That performance proves that no matter how the trick is done, the important thing is to enjoy it. And I did. Thank you!

[@alicookofficial]

Cheers dude!!!!

[@rizreid8670]

Thank you, brother Cook et al

[@wilfdarr]

Yup. Totally knew how it was done right from the beginning, still a great performance!

[@craigsherlin4810]

One of 4 shows set to always record on my DVR. Despite an overabundance of card tricks , I love the international flavor and many very talented magicians.

[@lucygeorge5738]

My grandfather was a magician and I grew up knowing all about different acts, this was extremely well done and the animals had very little stress which for me is the most important part. Great performance .👏🏻xxx

[@mauriciohernandez116]

Just know we clicked for your assistant with the duck but stayed for the wings.

[@alicookofficial]

🤣

[@freeshabazz8033]

Facts

[@iggystardust9236]

Just like hooters, came for the chicks, stayed for the wings.

[@mazzb305]

FACTS. CHick is gorgeous

[@ThisHorrorFilmDoesNotExist]

I love that I can watch a magician, know how he did every step of a trick, and still be entertained from start to finish. This was an absolutely engaging and fun performance, and Penn & Teller's delight over it is infectious.

[@alicookofficial]

Thanks for watching. It is ridiculous it for some reason everyone loves it.

[@chrissibersky4617]

I got a dog who loves doing what happened there. Now I only need to find a cat that likes it too. 😆 I laughed extra hard because I was thinking about my dog and how happy she would've been.

[@alicookofficial]

@@chrissibersky4617 😂😂😂

[@kckirk1217]

So how did he do it!?!? Lemme guess magicians code?

[@ThisHorrorFilmDoesNotExist]

@@kckirk1217 It's a trick that dates back to ancient Egypt (literally, the proverbial "oldest trick in the book"), attributed to an Egyptian magician named Dedi, described in a document known as the Westcar Papyrus, dating back to the 18th Century B.C. The trick involves folding the bird's head under its wing, and holding a fake bird's head in its place. The magician pulls the fake head off, giving the illusion that the animal has been decapitated, and then uses sleight of hand to make it look like the head has been restored while stashing the fake head in a sleeve or pocket. In the case of the head swapping, I'm not telling you, because that is a unique, newer aspect to the trick, and I'm going to respect Ali's privacy on that. But the Dedi decapitation trick is old enough, and well-documented enough, that I feel I can ethically spoil at least that much of the trick. I will at least tell you that the swapping part is simpler than it looks, but takes a gifted illusionist to make it convincing.

[@puppetmaster20081]

It's a trick too ridiculous to provoke thought but just enough slight of hand and entertainment value not to like it. Good job

[@alicookofficial]

🙏🙏🙏

[@dpellek74]

Perfect comment

[@travelphotos7662]

Penn and Teller had looks of genuine enjoyment. They've done the show for so long it would be difficult to have something so fresh; but back then, when this clip was filmed, everything was new for them on Fool Us. Seeing their sincere enjoyment was as just as much as watching the performance on stage for this trick.

[@joshlucas797]

The one assistant in the thumbnail only reason I clicked 😂

[@stephenthomas1492]

Same. EXTREMELY lame 'trick', but what a nice looking lady!

[@mitchellculberson9336]

That was just crazy.Leave them like that & see how much it messes with the birds.Hilarious.!

[@alicookofficial]

Thanks dude!!

[@mitchellculberson9336]

@@alicookofficial Welcome

[@Sly88Frye]

I don't use a click on these ads but knowing that Penn and Teller are involved sounds really interesting

[@thomaskite7222]

This isn't an ad, haha, this is just a regular KZbin video.

[@Mars-xc1ns]

The look of the assistant with the chicken is hilarious, the look of concern she has. Now do the same with your assistants heads and bodies

[@alicookofficial]

🤣 Working on it!

[@SeanRoland-r1q]

Or with Penn and Teller

[@SeanRoland-r1q]

Missed out on an opportunity to make a turdunken

[@alicookofficial]

🤣🤣🤣

[@profjay-zl4np]

ik im not the only one who thinks the lady holding the duck is bad asf🥵

[@alicookofficial]

Yeah she’s very pretty and also married with two kids. I tried to woo her with my duck antics but sadly it was not meant to be

[@markzappasodi]

I thought both women were attractive.

[@alicookofficial]

@@markzappasodi They’re both lovely

[@C-EWoodWorkLTD]

But theres 3 women ?😉😁

[@liammay7756]

I like the way she is looking at you when you're about to viciously rip the head off that poor chicken..

[@kevinmcd17]

Quality how the magician ali replies to comments, i think anyone who does that deserves credit, shows they not thinking they too good to reply hats off or stuck up....... #newfan👏

[@alicookofficial]

Thanks dude

[@kr9527]

I watched my first episode of penn and teller last night. This phone isn’t linked to the account I watched it on but all of a sudden I’m getting recommended penn and teller Ads. Must be some sort of universal quandary

[@robertmatthews2009]

It's nice to see a trick that doesn't involve a deck of cards.

[@bloodanddajugs]

The hardest part of this trick is finding the right combination of wine and easy listening that will put a chicken in the mood to F$-@ a Duck

[@alicookofficial]

Bit of Lionel Ritchie mate 😉

[@scoscodeff437]

Yoooooooo this is crazy.....I knew the basic version of the trick the whole way through, but dude, a chuck and a ducken?!? How? Wow..good work

[@alicookofficial]

Thanks dude.

[@rossclark2213]

@@alicookofficial

[@RAYRAAMSALU]

A nice twist on one of the oldest magic tricks. The expression on the face of the assistant on the right really sold it for me!

[@alicookofficial]

Cheers. She was a star

[@CrowSpirit1977]

Oh the look on that chickens face when his head came off😂😆😅PRICELESS!!

[@alicookofficial]

🤣🤣🤣

[@SgtKong]

Swapped more than just their heads. Cool illusion. Great showmanship

[@alicookofficial]

Thx!!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@deathfromasian]

i feel like if you own chickens and ducks you know how this trick is done, the only part i don't know is the part of where the original ones went, very impressed with the color of the new ones

[@TheSleightDoctor]

Magician here. Just reading through the comments and seeing a few folks worrying about the welfare of the birds. This is an ancient trick - the oldest recorded, in fact - and while it's almost certain that the original version used a real bird's head, this one didn't (though the method was otherwise the same). ✌

[@Rob_Dekker]

Ali switched the head, paws and feathers. He’s a wizard!

[@alicookofficial]

You’re goddam right.

[@danielzwickel7147]

I'll bet that to attach them they used duck tape -- and maybe chicken wire.

[@alicookofficial]

🤣🤣

[@fightclubify]

Very obvious trick, but a frickin' great performance. Loved it.

[@deanwalker972]

How is it obvious.?

[@Jophus7]

Just check the feet of the duck and chicken after the "switch"

[@rizreid8670]

I DID check and saw nothing out of the 'ordinary'.

[@HBHeroDive]

@@rizreid8670the chicken body with the duck feet and the duck body with the chicken feet wasn’t out of the ordinary for ya?

[@doddsino]

​@@deanwalker972 The chicken and the duck at the end of the trick are both real. Neither have had their body parts removed, and are either hybrid animals with unique plumage, or they had parts of their body dyed. Everything prior to that point was a puppet.

[@icantdl]

ngl i only clicked on this video because of the girl holding the ducj

[@alicookofficial]

Story of my life

[@elliotburing87]

Smh.... me too

[@USAlien234]

Now I feel like an idiot

[@stevenbaer5999]

That's what you call a body swap

[@AlexanderDrake]

Notice that the "chicken" body has duck feet and vice versa. Pretty sure they just colored a duck black and did the same to the rooster or something. While you aren't watching the original chicken and duck get stuck away, those boxes already have the black bodied duck and rooster

[@kaleemmohammad6006]

The fact that this guy is replying to literally every comment🙌

[@alicookofficial]

I try my best!

[@cryptonian2461]

I mean its obvious he went to Hogwartz

[@reggaerock]

Presentation is everything, and this is presented perfectly

[@alicookofficial]

Thanks Spencer! Cheers for watching

[@coelophysisstudios465]

Incredible simple trick but still brings me so much joy!

[@alicookofficial]

👍👍👍💥

[@aidansofficialgamingchanne3767]

This was one of my favourite acts from the show well done

[@alicookofficial]

Cheers Aidan

[@willr563]

I remember watching this performance in like lowest of the low definition ages ago and it was mind blowing! So nice to watch a quality act in better quality!

[@alicookofficial]

Cheers Will. Yeah we finally got footage from the producer. Woohoo

[@g5lisa]

Wow! That was fantastic!

[@fluffyslippers1020]

When penn and teller fool us used to good. Great and funny trick

[@alicookofficial]

Cheers dude.

[@elliotburing87]

Even the song choice has Wings!

[@robertmcnulty7291]

David Copperfield did this in 80's and the animals ran around on stage

[@kdtjones]

I love how you know from the beginning this isn't going to fool anybody and yet the performance was 100% "I don't give a ******, let's just go out there and have some fun". This was... it was... sir, I applaud you, I'm smiling wall to wall and tree top tall. I'm going to watch it again

[@alicookofficial]

Cheers Kyle. We filmed this such a long time ago 2010!! And yet everyone loves it. We based the performance on the magician from Arrested Development 😂

[@kdtjones]

@@alicookofficial I've never watched it sir. It reminds me of the 90's when shows like "Big Break", "Noels house party" etc were on Saturday night family TV. You would have had your own TV show back then with this act. I'm 38 and you transported me back to being a 9 year old boy and *that* was the real "magic".

[@alicookofficial]

@@kdtjones Cheers Kyle.

[@hkk3656]

This was very entertaining. Let's see it with an emu and a eagle. Now thats one I couldn't figure out.

[@alicookofficial]

🤣🤣🤣🤦 Working on it.

[@matthewcaldwell267]

Very funny performance by the clever Ali Cook....Fot me Calvin Kleins would never dry..

[@nicaholic]

Jim Henson would be proud of your puppetry

[@alicookofficial]

Love Jim Henson!

[@ConsciousExpression]

It's so obvious. First he uses sleight of hand to stuff both birds down his pants. The boxes are incubators, where he's making a new batch of birds with special colorations. That's why it takes a minute for him to do the prestige, the birds not only have to hatch but he's giving them time to grow. Otherwise it would be too obvious because they'd be too small when he pulls them out of the incubator.

[@alicookofficial]

Nailed it.

[@GregsBassWorld]

Incredible!👏 What episode is this? I wanted to see their reaction.

[@alicookofficial]

The very first!

[@mikesgirl8304]

This is so great, very fun and I loved that it's the oldest trick that's very cool

[@ocrun6765]

I love it. I love it so much. Every bit of it. So funny 😂.

[@gavincampbell8037]

Wow!! That was incredible

[@nathanharris8547]

Right so the last part to me is clear, they just had a real Duck that had brown feathers and same for the Chicken but at what point in the beginning did they hide the real animals and switch to fake heads?

[@Olawni]

Chicken in Ducks clothing, Duck in chickens clothing.

[@RobertBallMagician]

Beautiful act 🤜🤛😊👍😊👍 🐔 👏👏👏

[@alicookofficial]

Thanks Robert!

[@dannytrebilcock9774]

What episode is this? Anyway to watch the comments from penn and teller?

[@alicookofficial]

This was the very first episode. I was the opening act.

[@sno-cone6052]

This is how God made the duck-billed platypus.....

[@alicookofficial]

🤣🤣🤣

[@petetong9725]

I bet you did loads of last minute practice for this trick... Running around like a headless chicken i believe the phrase is 🤣

[@alicookofficial]

😂😂😂

[@mickiemouseHM]

Legend has it my comment will get a reply from the uploader.

[@alicookofficial]

Boom. Thanks for watching 💥

[@tammyyoung3398]

Did they get changed back afterwords?

[@unbroken1010]

I'm not convinced I see you do it on my mom and dad switch them up😜

[@alicookofficial]

😂😂 Send them over. Let’s see what we can do

[@DaveMiller2]

This is actually a pretty simple trick. I don't know how most tricks are done but this one was easy to see. If you want a clue as to how it it done, look below. (He does have a good stage presence and the music is a nice touch). Spoiler alert! Look at the feet of the two birds after the head swap.

[@hm4645]

from your answer the trick is to "dress" each as the other, but the chicken was on right and duck on left, so there was actual teleportation?! :P or did they also swap feet?!?! HAH rewatched again, so its 2 compartments, 2 live animals at end with "dressed" bodies, that were stuffed into the top compartment and at start they are completely fake and in end the assistants stuffed the fakes into the bottom compartment!! nice one!

[@Eman-wj8gq]

I click for the hot chick

[@mikelabor7688]

I love it!

[@alicookofficial]

Cheers!!

[@eddon8541]

One of the top ones... very funny lol

[@alicookofficial]

Cheers dude

[@asherkosack9347]

007 fans anyone?😂 love the soundtrack

[@hhbprods]

Absolutely brilliant & polished performance.

[@alicookofficial]

Thank you!!! 🙏🙏✌️

[@rilly1347]

I might have an idea how it's done, but I'm trying to forget it because it's a whole lot more fun to suspend disbelief and just call it magic. 🙂

[@trapgod9690]

Real chicken , real duck... 2x "hats" to hold there heads down to appear as headless. 1x puppet duck head attached to a cloth 1x puppet chicken head attached to a cloth Assistant 1 dyes the ducks body while we are looking at the chicken Vice versa for the chicken... Done... The magic circle has nothing on me , Ive witnessed the best magicianin the land for years , infact he was so good he got kicked out the Magic circle... Like Anakin when he got kicked out of the council , only to upgrade into Darth Vader... That man is Dominic Wood

[@jamesfair9751]

The birds are actually real. I’m not saying there isn’t fake birds in there but the ones moving around at the end are definitely real. He’s either painted/dyed their feathers or somehow come across a weird colored bread if each. Who knows that could have been the inspiration for the trick seeing two weirdly colored birds ?!?

[@RCassinello]

Yeah, there's four birds, and a fake duck and fake chicken head. The duck at the end let the side down by showing off its giant duck feet when pretending to be a chicken! :)

[@patmccaffery1543]

Imagine doing that with a horse and a cat 😂

[@juniorjohnson5961]

Amazing I've never seen anything like it 😭

[@alicookofficial]

Cheers. It’s actually the worlds older trick. Just not performed often as let’s face it the props have a life of their own.

[@beppo2814]

AMAZING sleight of hand but with long hair Jonathan Ross being the host means this must've been Season 1 or Season 2 of the show. Why just now posting it 5 or 6 years later?

[@alicookofficial]

It took this long to get a good quality copy from the producers.

[@deanwalker972]

How is it done then.?

[@alicookofficial]

Can’t say

[@mtsguides]

This aint magic.... Its evil sorcery 🤪🤪

[@SerendipityChild]

Oh very nice! And to music. Chook-the-Duck and Duck-the-Chook owe their happy and excellent natures, their being, to you their creator and source (It's late where I am so I apologise for too obscurely paraphrasing Frankenstein)

[@alicookofficial]

Hahah no worries. Thanks for watching. X

[@nikkic36]

Simple but nicely done

[@robsmithadventures1537]

Really Cool 😂

[@alicookofficial]

Cheers

[@AlaskanGhost]

Shou Tucker's early years.

[@mansisity]

Who would've thought you could just tuck the birds heads under there wings like that and implement into a magic act nice sleight of hand also great act

[@flamingpaper7751]

The birds aren't real, you can see how they do just a few simple motions, which is just mechanical. The birds at the end are real

[@Annairea]

@@flamingpaper7751 the birds are real, the heads aren't. You can watch their feet and see they are moving as a real bird would if held by the wings. For example, check the goose again. You can see it is entirely real as the assistant pets it and it dodges her touch. It also had black markings around it's eyes, but when Cook puts the cloth over it, the markings are gone. This is slight of hand to tuck the goose's head under it's wing and put a taxidermy one through the cloth. The chicken never has its real head out, as it probably would have been too hard to tuck it live on stage but you can see from the feet that it is real. These birds are placed into the boxes which are segmented. The original birds, a white goose, and a black chicken, are placed into the bottom boxes, and switched out while the "surgery" is being performed. Once the final birds are revealed, if you check their feet again you will see that the "goose" is actually a white chicken with a black head, and the "chicken" is a black goose with a white head.

[@beautyonabarnbudget]

@@Annairea I completely caught on to the 1st part of the trick. But, a bit curfuddled on the 2nd. 4 birds total???

[@Annairea]

@@beautyonabarnbudget yes exactly

[@anonamous7108]

I figured out the fake heads operated like puppet with his finger inside interchanging with the real ones, despite most of the concentration was directed at the legs in the black stockings of the gorgeous assistant!

[@matthewjarvinen6549]

If it weren't for the chix/rooster (because of the red stuff on its head, forget the name, you've had me).

[@andrewparker318]

Ok but seriously how was this done?

[@soltrippiv4988]

Great Magic Trick 🎩✨👌🏾

[@alicookofficial]

Cheers 🥂

[@w00tb0ss]

You need your new half duck and half chicken and visa versa species. Ali dicken maybe lol. Awesome performance!

[@alicookofficial]

Hahaha thanks 🙏

[@Enoch_Owl]

I reckon I know how they did it but I would rather not know for sure how any magic trick is achieved. The visuals alone are magical.

[@Johnny6919731]

Why did the feet change to match the heads?

[@archiebell9573]

Did you fool them? Can’t find their reactions anywhere

[@alicookofficial]

Afraid not. They loved it but it is a classic of magic

[@zachkattner9043]

If you could incorporate a turkey into the act, it would be awesome for thanksgiving. Turducken! Never actually ate that before but it's on my list

[@alicookofficial]

Hahaha. I’ll let you know how I get on with my experiments

[@beautyonabarnbudget]

It's gross Don't eat it

[@alicookofficial]

@@beautyonabarnbudget 🤣🤣

[@eddiemorrone870]

So that’s where Dickens originated ;P

[@jesseperez3086]

Did you fool them?

[@alicookofficial]

Not this time

[@PetrolPatrol]

I feel like it must be super uncomfortable for the birds to have to constantly have their heads removed and reattached for this bit..

[@alicookofficial]

They’re pros

[@TheSleightDoctor]

You see what I did there? I did a Penn-style code without revealing the trick to laypeople. If ony more of us did that... 😢

[@alicookofficial]

😂😂😂

[@timeitself5300]

The thumbnail looks like Michael Weatherly

[@masonpines6349]

Shit you right...

[@paulbaratta1566]

Excellent

[@alicookofficial]

Thanks!!!

[@kellyappel3015]

At the end the birds are wearing a "jacket" of feathers, as the chicken and duck's heads are correct with their feet.

[@dominiccirineo1587]

Who is the assistant on our left, I've seen her before!!

[@nickroberts6984]

Great job Ali Cook ! 🎩✨🎭

[@alicookofficial]

🙏🙏🙏✌️

[@FORRESTtheunoriginal]

Oldest trick in the book innit.

[@redherring87]

I have no clue how exactly it’s done BUT, at the end, the “duck body” is a chicken body and the “chicken body” is a duck body… look at the feet.

[@johnmarkhatfield]

Oh no you didn’t, no you didn’t, oh you did.

[@h.hasson3167]

Ali, I really just wanted to know, is this trick a classic and has been in magic books and references long time ago or not? Because I remember watching David Coperfield performing it long time ago and thought that it was his creation.

[@alicookofficial]

It’s printed in three books - the memoirs of Robert Houdin, The Magic Of Servais Le Roy and in The Magic of Willard The Wizard. The original used doves in the 18th Century. Le Roy updated it using chickens and ducks.

[@h.hasson3167]

@@alicookofficial That was really insightful, thanks so much!

[@alicookofficial]

@@h.hasson3167 It really is the oldest trick in the book this one. However in the original version using doves they really pulled off the heads

[@nikkic36]

Who made the puppet heads they’re really nice