is he an inspiration for you oh absolutely i'm a big fan of david copperfield's and yes as you said i received the most an award a few years ago for the best so many metrics will be going to for me yeah absolutely congratulations now what would you tell a little boy who was starting out with magic. well you could learn as i did from the books or you could go to your local store and buy some boxes or we have a metric up here in germany and you can learn some magic trick ok it's all right i brought some kind of birth for you take. oh don't be good hope it's just a people or not a birthday can go absolutely nuts. we could do something you know it's just write something on this piece of paper or you draw and if it turns and all you have to do then is just. no money. and hopefully it becomes reality and that's ok well it's. alright now it's time to say goodbye and seeing ourselves as your birthday happy birthday to your own max and thank you for all of our viewers for joining us and tuning in peter thank you for being here and celebrate investigation and with that it's time to say goodby

. >> stephen: not doug henning or david copperfield or any of those people? >> them too.ooks about him, the escape artist. i auditioned for "the magic castle." >> stephen: out in los angeles. >> out in los angeles when i was, like 11 years old. i wanted to be a junior member. >> stephen: and how did it go? >> horribly. i had a trick ready, a disappearing quarter trick. there was a hankerchief and a box it went in. i pulled up somebody from the audience, who was also a child because it was just a room full of children just trying to get into the magic castle. and the quarter fell on the ground, and the kid-- yeah, thank you. the kid, you know, gave one of the "ha-ha! it's on the ground!" ( laughter ) and, you know, you've got-- like chefs say, "stand by your dish." i had to stand by my trick. >> and picked up the expwrt went, "ta-da!" and i sat back down -- >> stephen: well-- ( applause ). >> and i hoped i would feel them, but i did not. >> stephen: good luck this sunday. i know you guys have a lot of rehearsing to do. >> i hope not to drop the quarter this time so to spea

>> like move over, david copperfield, that this happened. she made it happen. and she's got all as.zingly. and i'm so blessed. >> jimmy: wow. [ cheers and applause ] >> oh my goodness. >> jimmy: it's interesting. because the show, which you know i love, your show, is based loosely on your real life. >> yes. >> jimmy: but things are not going quite as well in that tv life as they are in real life. >> no, we don't want them to be so, you know -- i mean, listen. it's like my life is -- i reflect on my life in my show. and i have this great gift in terms of my show. and babco has done music for our show -- >> jimmy: jeff, our keyboard player. nobody knows who he is. [ cheers and applause ] >> and when we made music for my show with jay gresko, the composer, we all got emotional and choked up. there's something for everybody. so there's so many dark days, it's like every day you wake up and it's like, oh my god, who's going to step in it today? who's in trouble? what's happening? is the world going to end? i like to watch apocalyptic movies right now because it makes me feel better. [ la