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From the Editors’ Desk: Hey, I Know That Guy!
Last night’s episode of The Late Show with James Corden featured a segment on bar tricks that included a face well-known around these parts: David Deeble!
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Good stuff David! How were the drinks?
Nerves must be twice as hard on a balancing act than on a comedian. Well done!
Next time, we expect the marshmallow act while hand-standing on a hoverboard next to a flaming tower of Jenga.
I’m torn. Deeble was great but that other guy was from Pittsburgh…
The only real bar trick was David.
If you are in a bar with enough room to swing a bull whip around there aren’t enough people there to matter.
Great job David.
I agree. The hover thing and the whip were cheating. If there’s a Jenga set up in your bar, you’re at the wrong bar.
That’s some real talent there…I mean parlaying such skills into a career.
We have a bar in Dallas that has a giant Jenga game made from cut up 2×4’s out on their patio. I’ve never been in there, but the game seems popular with the hipsters.
Beer fueled hipsters pushing around a pile of teetering 2×4’s… That might be ok…
Meh. When you come to Dallas we probably won’t have our meet up there.
When Deeble retires, we’ll find him in an old folks home lobby half-dressed and balancing Jenga on his head. (He needs something to replace that stabbing coat hanger trick when the reflexes dim.)
People not already familiar with Deeble should look him up on YouTube. He mixes comedy and balancing acts. That flaming marshmallow trick is funnier when he has time to lead into it.
Dave was great.
I thought the beer bottle trick was a good bar trick–they threw him out.
I can remember when “three kids – one of each” was a joke.
Now you can say, “We have 39 kids – one of each.”
I’m an IPA guy but a after four run-throughs and the actual show (that’s five marshmallows) a cold anything was right up my alley.
I’ll put it this way: I’ve never failed a field sobriety test.
That was my buddy Mark. There were only 3 barstools and four of us and he had a bulls-eye on his back from the moment he arrived, poor guy. We all knew the math.
Four run throughs?
WTH? You didn’t tell them. “Look damnit, I am Dave Deeble from Ricochet, a craftsman in the art of bar trickery. I don’t need a run through like the rest of these amateurs”
The segment producer actually asked for the olive and toothpick trick but as he was out sick and left no instructions he was green lighted to do what I think would go over best. Creative control, baby!
Thanks for the comments, everybody. A clip of my portion teased out from the entire segment is here in the event you wish to share it with friends eager for distraction from the state of the union.
Should’ve used a ping pong ball instead of a marshmallow – now that would’ve been impressive!
Although the olive and the toothpick thing was good the marshmallow trick was better – you made the right choice.
You know, if some dude hover-boards in to the bar, I’m thinking I don’t want him sitting near me. Now, a chick with a whip, that’s .. I’ll leave it at that.
Though if you combined that with the story about trying to impress a woman…
“So, do you want a watch a movie?”
“I’ve got a better idea. Do you have a spare coat hanger and a marshmallow?”
… his chauffeur to the show. It’s fitting that a king of comedy should travel by chariot. But it was a little odd when he arrived in front of the cart.
Fire makes any trick better.
My experience using bar tricks to impress girls is that the kind of girl that falls for it makes you wish the next morning that you had swallowed the coat hanger instead.
Dude, it is next to impossible to put out a flaming ping pong ball without using your hands.
Don’t ask how I know this.
I expected David to swallow it ;)
If you don’t have time to watch the video, here’s a recap:
Deeble wobbled, but it don’t fall down.
So, out of curiosity, I just went into my livingroom and tried to balance a coat hanger on my forehead.
You owe me a new contact lens, Deeble.
[ok, that doesn’t even make sense. But I did try it, unsuccessfully.]