Penn & Teller Fool Us Damien James

[@ningenkiyoki5445]

God I really thought you had a chance on BGT but apparently the "judges" didn't think so. You got an amazing joyful talent and god I wish to see more.

[@HOTD108_]

What's BGT?

[@a_cynical_mad_man_vods]

Britain's Got Talent. Simon was the only one who said yes, and the other judges pressed his button to end the act early

[@musicpoolchannel8602]

Well he did go on canada got talent too tho

[@KenZuKiLL]

Hello Mr Damien, I wish I could see more of Mr Cuddles you really did a good job there on BGT, and I'm also curious about the "time machine" thing you wanted to show on BGT but no luck to see that, it looks so entertaining to me, we hope to see that full performance of Mr Cuddles on that time, hope you continue about Mr Cuddles!

[@snowlinjohnson5838]

We would love to, Mr. James!!

[@MRblazedBEANS]

Agree he did a great job and they tossed him out. Super fun and unique the opposite of British humor

[@musicpoolchannel8602]

Just watch canada got talent he did the time machine thing

[@TrystantheMutant510]

Your BGT audition sent me here, and I have no idea how they didn't put you through! You're amazing and I wish you all the best in your future endeavours!!!

[@damienjames739]

Thank you so much for the encouraging words! 🙏🏻😊 All the best!

[@pivnich7513]

Damien, I admire your talents, can't even imagine the amount of work behind all these things and skills. I really love how accurate your celebrity puppets are, you're a true artist. Cheers from Ukraine.

[@damienjames739]

Thanks so much for the kind words! 🙏🏻😊

[@BenTheBakedBean]

@@damienjames739hey are you Mr cuddles

[@damienjames739]

@@BenTheBakedBean Mr. Cuddles has insisted that I only let people know that I am merely his nameless lobotomized assistant 🤪

[@BenTheBakedBean]

@@damienjames739 oh hahaha wow your still around that’s cool Britain is unfair anyways your tho one who got me into ventriloquism also where can I go to get more of this cuddles Character I’d love to see more of him

[@damienjames739]

@@BenTheBakedBeanthanks for the message Ben! You can find more of Mr. Cuddles by doing a KZbin search for ‘Mr. Cuddles the Evil Octopus’.. you will find spots from ‘Canadas Got Talent’ as well another ‘Penn and Teller: Fool Us’ appearance! Mr. Cuddles the Evil Octopus is also available for custom videos on Cameo! 😀

[@FuronSpartan]

I'm thinking an RFID tag in each of the emoji plaques that get read by a sensor in your sleeve when you show the selected emoji to the audience. That gets sent over to a receiver on an arduino/raspberry pi board that controls a paint system that will spray the selected pattern on command. It's how I would think to accomplish the actual trick if I was coming from a film effects or tech background. Your puppetry and ventriloquism are fantastic!

[@JohnPaluska]

It's a lot simpler to just have multiple emoji-shaped holes for the blood to splatter through than to force someone to pick an emoji.

[@djg5135]

Simpler? How could anything be simpler than a card force.

[@YnotOnWheels]

Wonderful! I watched bgt Mr cuddles and searched youtube, then found this video.

[@damienjames739]

Thanks ynot! All the best! - Damien

[@vegan4animals4life]

Absolutely wonderful talent!

[@avrilrosejuanes217]

WHAT A CRAFTY & ARTSY HANDIWORK! I LOVE YOUR ACT MAN! it was amazing & inspiring! WE LOVE YOU! ♥️🔥🤟😘😍

[@damienjames739]

Thanks for the kind words! 🙏🏻😃

[@avrilrosejuanes217]

@@damienjames739 We appreciate you a lot & hope to see you again! God bless your soul! Thank you for making us laugh 😍😍😍😍😍

[@JoeBManco]

That is amazing talent to pull off this one-time act. I enjoyed it so much.

[@pagmatic]

I've been watching your performances on the Got Talents and Penn and Teller. Just subscribed. Hope to see more of your wizardy.

[@TrilloSuede]

Great performance. Your channel should be MUCH more popular. I've subscribed. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos.

[@EchoThelogical]

Got here by your act in CGT I gotta say you got some real talent

[@mootpoint7053]

I hope he donated those puppets to the show. They're as awesome as this trick! And can we by any chance, fast forward three years from now? :D

[@damienjames739]

Hi! Thanks for the kind words.. The puppets are actually on permanent display at the ‘vent haven museum’ in Kentucky.. which is the only museum in the world dedicated to the history of Ventriloquism. And yes.. I wish that damn time machine actually worked 😜

[@declanp1]

Trump will be in jail by then.

[@iiiiitsmagreta1240]

It's three years from when this comment was posted, hi! I'd ask if you want to know anything about the future, but I'm guessing you're already here.

[@tp4g]

Dear Damien. I’m your NEWEST biggest fan. Just subscribed and binged all of what I could find of you on KZbin. 😅 Big love. Also, I think I know how your trick worked. 😎 Well done! You deserve all the praise.

[@CButtiR]

Just got here now. But what I love the most is that you made an illusion (shout out to Gob Bluth) that Penn & Teller could actually have made, with Teller & Penn puppets.

[@brianzembic]

Nice guy. He seriously had the time of his life. It was greatttt.

[@Godfadda]

Whats crazy to me is that they called a force when you alluded to the classic penn and teller 3 of clubs force in the act!

[@joshtehWraith]

I'm gonna go with a guess of assistant under the podium putting the correct one out of multiple cloths on Penn after seeing what was chosen on a monitor.

[@SovereignRose]

Keep up the awesome work!

[@ZER0--]

I also thought it was a force. Damn. Good trick. I'm going to watch the octopus trick now...

[@nosickl]

The only performer on BGT who made me hate all the judges, except Simon

[@x1r1y]

Plz do more or do a KZbin channel or something ur so f talented

[@damienjames739]

Thanks for the kind words! 😊🙏🏻

[@yusronnaim]

talking about multi-talented man...

[@Xorcist-Band]

a techy can explain how this could be done. clever use of the paddles ;)

[@musicpoolchannel8602]

Mmm didn't u just know the order so know wich emoji she picked? And then had different either diapers or different settings on the puppet to explode the way you want it to happen?

[@MRblazedBEANS]

He does a force in his next appearance which is super funny, when he is the octopus he does a force for the sock.

[@Mohammed.Noureldaem.]

I watched him in Britain got talent and saw him lose. I felt bad and ended up here

[@supersingledad8968]

One time in band camp...

[@phreeesubz]

The music is so horribly loud at the end of the video compared to the content itself.

[@damienjames739]

It’s just to wake you up in case the act put you to sleep 🤪

[@HardxCorpsxKali]

So am I not correct in the fact that with this trick it’s just a cannon of each emoji that shoots the blood stain once you set the emoji behind the stand? How’d they not get that? You can tell from the act it wasn’t forced and I think it’s intentional to show it’s not forced. So once you put the emojis behind the stand don’t you press the corresponding buttons for the chosen emoji??

[@damienjames739]

Great guess.. but no.. liquid is extremely difficult to control.. so even if I had a cannon that had the emoji shapes built in; once the liquid hit the cloth - it would turn into an indiscernible blob of blood. There was only one cannon that was hidden behind a door in Robot-Teller’s chest. To give you more to think about.. I made this trick to specifically be a fooler.. so whatever I imagined they would guess; I had to make it not be that as the method.. and honestly - it’s one of those tricks where the method is likely better than the actual effect 😜 I had no clue as to what emoji was chosen until the moment she told me it was the umbrella..

[@HardxCorpsxKali]

@@damienjames739 wow no clue until she told you?! That’s insane! Ohh okay okay I can still see a method in which that would work.. although I am having trouble seeing how to get the print on the cloth.. but I do know for a fact that you put it on the top of the stack for a reason. Even if you never know what the emoji is you still need to put it down onto something behind the stand. And because you said liquid is hard to control I would actually imagine after seeing the clarity of the image that when the liquid shoots out it is only a trick for maybe a printer to print the actual emoji because that would mean if you laid her emoji onto a scanner just so you could somehow print it onto the cloth which was tucked away until you unfolded it. That’s the only thing I can think but when you said liquid is hard to control.. maybe some type of 3d image gets printed and dipped in red inc or something like that and pressed onto the 3d printed emoji? Which is why there is a time limit on how long it takes for the trick to unfold. Maybe it’s not 3d printed because that takes a long time but it has to be a printer! If that’s not it then I couldn’t even imagine. But that’s a good guess..

[@damienjames739]

Good (yet complicated) guess.. but that’s not it.. the actual emoji paddles did not have anything to do with the final reveal.. here’s some behind the scenes gossip.. there was actually a bit of a hiccup.. the ‘blood cannon’ was accidentally set off while I was heading to the stage to do the spot. So they had to quickly change the order of the show so that I could get things cleaned up and re-set.. but.. the blood cannon was not re-filled with enough air pressure.. so when the cannon went off - there wasn’t enough pressure to make a big enough splatter on the cloth for the reveal.. (hence why I had to grab the cloth to physically work the blood through the cloth).. It ‘was’ supposed to be revealed in the blood splatter without me touching the cloth.. but sometimes you gotta improvise 🤪 I love hearing peoples guesses.. But I made this trick as a one off (as this method would only work once!) for the sole reason to fool Penn and Teller.. I have never don’t this trick again (and won’t ever do it again).. it’s a LOT of work to set up😅

[@HardxCorpsxKali]

@@damienjames739 so all of that is true and the emoji isn’t forced because that’s what you told them at the end and the producers didn’t deny that so unless they were talking about something else being forced then you didn’t force that emoji and she truly could’ve picked any one of them and it would’ve fired whichever emoji on the cloth? That’s unreal I cant even imagine that’s possible the way you’re describing it! How do the paddles not hold the answer? I’m far more intrigued now than I was before talking to you! Haha what an amazing trick however it’s done. Bravo I literally can’t think of any possible way to do it other than the ways I said previously… I’ll die an old man wondering how this was done. lol

[@StandbyCymbalist]

Wow, this is wild

[@JustinCoasters]

I think I know how he got Penn to Levitate

[@robertgolding]

Please fix the sound levels, I don't like being blasted out of my chair just for the titles and ending.

[@fvlcroprod.4073]

Omg its so real

[@Conor2496]

He should’ve done this on BGT then he would’ve definitely got 4 yeses

[@damienjames739]

Well.. I wanted to try something different.. oh well 🤪

[@Conor2496]

@@damienjames739 U should come back as your definitely talented and when Simon says your good, your good

[@damienjames739]

Thanks Conor! I have some other TV appearances with some new custom puppets in the works! All the best! ~ Damien James

[@jayantshaq]

Nice act. Sort of confused at this video having fewer than 1000 views, when you did fool them.

[@damienjames739]

Hi Jayantshaq! Thanks! 😃 This was a couple of years ago.. The only other TV spot I have done was on Britain’s Got Talent.. just look up ‘Mr. Cuddles BGT’.. all the best! ~ Damien

[@jacksonvilleflisgreat5398]

🤣🤣🤣

[@x1r1y]

I’ve been looking for ur name for a year now. I saw the video from agt and remember that u fooled penn and teller finally saw that trick again 🤍🤍🤍