Holiday Party 2024 Recap

After finishing the pizza, salad and cookies, the show began.

MC, John Hutsebaut kicked things off with some jokes and a funny bit where he kept taking off different colored gloves. John showed a deck with numbers on the back of each card and asked Julie Koslow to name a number. Card #47 was shown to be the four of hearts and John asked a few questions to enter into a phone app, which caused a small ape holding the four to pop out of his phone.

Martin Mercy was up next with a bingo sheet in honor of his mom. The sheet was passed around and numbers were crossed off until one number was left (18). Martin divined the number while everyone shouted “bingo.”

Scott Lebin followed with a nice cup-and-die routine. The die kept appearing and disappearing under the cup. There were multiple final loads of a lime, lemon and tomato.

Mike Kamlet told the story of the cursed card who turned into a frog while folding a card into an origami "frog". After a card was selected, the frog found the selection, breaking the curse, and the selection turned into the frog.

Nancy Anderson invited Terrence Hunter to take a trip to Las Vegas. As Terrence selected a card from a deck of casino cards, it matched a predicted card as well as a casino chip. Next Terrence chose a roulette number from a deck of numbered cards and Nancy made winning bets: Red, Even, High to get to the selected number (32).

Don Wiberg told some funny stories while handing Lizzy a red “McCombical” prediction (9H). Lizzy then selected a card from a blue packet (all 9H). When Don asked Lizzy for the name of the card (KS), Don showed that both cards now matched.

Ivan Tzontchev asked Julie to think of one of three colors which he showed matched to a prediction on the back of the colored card.

Alan Koslow invited Alec Dylo and Fernando Flores to shuffle the cards. Alan then dealt cards until Fernando said stop and a prediction was removed. Alec then called stop as Alan continued to deal and then Scott said deal four more cards. Those cards were shown to be mates, and then Alan showed that the whole deck was now mated too.

Terrence Hunter performed a do-as-I-do silk to egg where both the magician and spectator ended up with real eggs. Terrence then performed a short routine with an egg bag, but with a golf ball and ended by producing a tee and a golf club from the bag. Next, Terrence produced lots of eggs from his mouth closing with a long streamer.

Mary Ziemba closed the show with a dancing cane routine done to music sung by the crowd.

-John Hutsebaut