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Harris on Ellen Show

Neil Patrick Harris (Barney in 'How I Met Your Mother') is doing amazing magic trick on Ellen

Neil Patrick Harris.

Hi.

All right. Um, so and now, cos you do magic, and now you are doing mind stuff?

Well, you know, I’ve been on the show before and you always asked me to do some sort of fun trick for you.

Erm, I like them.

I juggled¹ swords once. (Yes.) I chopped my own head off once. (Yes, we got lots of stories about that.) Sorry, kids. What we did, so, look at that. (Yeah) There’s (an) actual picture of it. (Yeah) That’s the before. Don’t show the after.

The after, we actually get people going "I can’t believe you cut his head off". People really tell we cut his head off.

Magic is hilarious². So I thought I would do some mental magic, stuff that’s safe. But I’ve been working on, you know, "the amazing crescan", they always think and can do things with their minds, kind of like Heroes. And sooooo, I started practicing with like a spoon. (Enhr.) You can actually watch very closely, ready?

I don’t fall for that one.

You don’t fall for that one. Now I tell you why, because this spoon has a hinge, see?

That’s right. I don’t fall for that one.

Not the best but... There’s actually, I actually have a better one. Now, this is a good stuff.

All right.

I packed a Light Lunch, get it? No, this is a light bulb. (Yes. I did.) Just a regular light bulb we could see. (Yes.) You wanna touch it? (Yes.) See it’s real. Nothing’s crazy about it. (OK.)All right, you get your eyes shot on this.

What? How did you do that? How did you do that? It’s freaking me out.

The illuminated³ light bulb trick.

Yes.

the amazing crescan: 出自John MacArthur的一本书《Charismatic Chaos》

light lunch: a Channel 4 lunch-time comedy chatshow broadcast between March 1997 and February 1998

1 juggled   

v.歪曲( juggle的过去式和过去分词 )；耍弄；有效地组织；尽力同时应付（两个或两个以上的重要工作或活动）

参考例句：

• He juggled the company's accounts to show a profit. 为了表明公司赢利，他篡改了公司的账目。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The juggler juggled three bottles. 这个玩杂耍的人可同时抛接3个瓶子。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 hilarious   

adj.充满笑声的，欢闹的；[反]depressed

参考例句：

• The party got quite hilarious after they brought more wine.在他们又拿来更多的酒之后，派对变得更加热闹起来。
• We stop laughing because the show was so hilarious.我们笑个不停，因为那个节目太搞笑了。

3 illuminated   

adj.被照明的；受启迪的

参考例句：

• Floodlights illuminated the stadium. 泛光灯照亮了体育场。
• the illuminated city at night 夜幕中万家灯火的城市