Magic Tricks

Seems like a great guy.
And his good material is really, really good.
Unfortunately he spent most of the lecture putting on a show. And it wasn't a good show. It's sad because be clearly put a lot of thought into the jokes and presentation, but at the same time he clearly has little to no experience actually performing. At least not like this. And so the jokes often fell flat.
The studio audience laughed a lot. But a: I think you have to know him to laugh. b: we didn't pay to laugh. We paid to learn

The lecture itself was unplanned. The parts where he actually performed tricks (this wasn't often) were clearly done off the top of his head. This is sad because be talked about how he wanted to explore how he came up with his tricks.... but where did he do this? He forgot? If he thinks his passing comments satisfied this, he's mistaken.

Frankly, I's be surprised if Penguin wasn't bombarded with requests for refunds. This "lecture" didn't come close to delivering. If he had stuck to demonstrating and teaching, and had actually performed the effects well, there's be something worth while here. He didn't. And there's not.