Comedian/magician Justin Willman’s new six-episode series, “Magic for Humans,” premieres Friday on Netflix.
We asked Willman to tell us about his three favorite magic tricks.
• Marshmallow Test: “In an attempt to better understand the concept of self-control (and why I don’t have any), I recreated the famous Stanford Marshmallow Experiment with a group of kids. (You can have one marshmallow now or, if you wait 10 minutes, you can have two.) I may or may not have made a kid cry while shooting this one … ”
• NSA Psychic Surgery: “Conspiracy theories have always fascinated me. A wacky conspiracy theory I keep hearing is that the government is covertly implanting microchips in our bodies to monitor and control us. I decided to find some people who truly believe this, and prove them right.”
• Invisible Man: “When I was a kid I put a tooth under my pillow, went to sleep, and in the morning there was money there. That tangible evidence was more than enough proof to make me believe in the tooth fairy. To find out how far I could take that premise, I set up a large flash-mob style social experiment all to convince one guy he had turned invisible.”
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