{"id":25980,"date":"2014-05-31T05:55:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T09:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25980"},"modified":"2021-03-24T11:46:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T15:46:36","slug":"you-wont-believe-this-magic-steve-martin-style-hilariousin-may-of-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25980","title":{"rendered":"You Won&#8217;t Believe THIS! Magic&#8230;Steve Martin Style! Hilarious!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/You-Wont-Believe-THIS-Magic...Steve-Martin-Style-Hilarious-In-May-of-1992.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nYou Won&#8217;t Believe THIS! Magic&#8230;Steve Martin Style! Hilarious!!!<\/p>\n<p>In May of 1992, Johnny Carson, whose own career started in magic, presented &#8220;The Great Flydini&#8221; on &#8216;The Tonight Show&#8217;. For your entertainment, here&#8217;s one of the most unique acts in magic history!<\/p>\n<p>Here is some background from our friend Mark Evanier: <em>When Johnny Carson announced his retirement, we were saddened but there were consolation prizes. His last few months of shows were wonderful as performer after performer came by and made a little extra effort for his or her farewell appearance with Johnny. For Steve Martin&#8217;s last turn, which was on May 6, 1992, Johnny prevailed upon him to do The Great Flydini. This was a routine Martin had developed years earlier and performed here and there, mostly for personal appearances and charity affairs. As I understand it, he hadn&#8217;t done it in years, in part because of the long prep time involved and in part because he&#8217;d pretty much quit performing in front of live audiences. (He did the routine again at least once. A year later, there was a big charity concert at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in downtown L.A. where Neil Young and The Great Flydini opened for Simon and Garfunkel. Bet that was an evening.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By the way, as a teenager, Martin worked at The Magic Store on Main Street in Disneyland. There&#8217;s a photo of him at the store in the comment section below. Enjoy and share!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Steve Martin Is The Great Flydini | Carson Tonight Show\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s9xKU8eYCFk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/682018935168992\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Won&#8217;t Believe THIS! Magic&#8230;Steve Martin Style! Hilarious!!! In May of 1992, Johnny Carson, whose own career started in magic, presented &#8220;The Great Flydini&#8221; on &#8216;The Tonight Show&#8217;. For your entertainment, here&#8217;s one of the most unique acts in magic history! Here is some background from our friend Mark Evanier: When Johnny Carson announced his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[825,725,1033,806],"class_list":["post-25980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-johnny-carson","tag-star","tag-tonight-show","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60106,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25980\/revisions\/60106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}