Things You Might Not Know About The Carbonaro Effect

With dozens of episodes and hundreds of tricks under its belt, The Carbonaro Effect must have fans wondering: how does this show pull it off? Let's stick our hand into this top hat, here are some things you might not know about The Carbonaro Effect.

In 2013 on The Tonight Show, a young magician named Michael Carbonaro posed as a convenience store clerk in order to trick unwitting customers into believing the unbelievable. Starting with a special Easter skit, the first Magic Clerk sketch quickly went viral and eventually led to Carbonaro's regular appearances on Jay Leno's late-night talk show. Talking to HuffPost about the Magic Clerk skits, Carbonaro's magician peers Penn & Teller said,

"What makes it great is not just the ingenuity of the stunts, which are amazing, but Carbonaro's sweet, sly style."

It isn't just Carbonaro's charm, charisma, and photogenic presence that helps him pull off the skits, it's also the highly detailed backstage and under-the-table preparation that makes these illusions visually stunning.

In the same interview with HuffPost, Carbonaro said,

"In doing the Magic Clerk segments, I'm always reminded of that line from The Usual Suspects, 'The best trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.'"

Thankfully, Carbonaro's best tricks don't involve anything truly devilish, even though there is the occasional bit of mayhem. And after just one year on Leno's show, a newly renamed The Carbonaro Effect was picked up by TruTV and an entire season was ordered even before the first episode aired.

The Magic Clerk skits exceeded all expectations by getting picked up by TruTV as The Carbonaro Effect after just a year on The Tonight Show, but unfortunately, there was trouble in magician's paradise. According to TMZ, Carbonaro was sued in 2015 by Tonight Show producer Beth Einhorn, who alleged they had entered into a 50/50 verbal contract in 2012 to create a spinoff show of Magic Clerk tentatively titled TrickShow. Keep watching the video to see all the things you might not know about The Carbonaro Effect.

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The Tonight Show | 0:00
Trouble in paradise | 1:36
Staged illusions | 2:20
Planting microphones | 3:42
Three elements | 5:07
Impractical Jokers | 6:26
Trained magician | 7:16
Original tricks | 8:35
Restricted timeline | 9:33
Filming locations | 10:08

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