THE AMAZING AND FUNNY RIP-NO-RIP NEWSPAPER COMEDY ILLUSION: "THE WORLD'S FUNNIEST MAGIC TRICK!"

This is the funniest magic trick I have ever performed and it goes over huge with audiences of all ages--can be performed anywhere, completely surrounded and you nail it every time!

The amazing and funny magic tricks, illusions, visual gags, comedy routines and laugh you find in my collection are professional-grade, top-quality, suitable for sidewalk, parlor, stage or concert hall. Each is ideal entertainment, proven, polished and perfected for professional magicians, comic magicians, illusionists, magic clowns, children’s entertainers, emcees and variety performers.

All props are dead-simple and cheap to make, but play BIG-- with the emphasis on entertainment and each will have a powerful effect on your audience. Complete comedy routines are included.

A newspaper is shown to the audience and torn in half. One half is given to an adult male volunteer. The other half of the paper is torn in half and each half is given to each of two children. The grown man cannot tear the paper, but the kids can. You take the paper from the man and tear in half with no effort. You hand half of that paper to the man and tear the other half of the newspaper into two halves and give each half to a kid. The man is invited to tear the paper, but no matter how hard he tries, he can’t do it. The kids, of course, can. This illusion uses an ordinary newspaper. The grown man can try to tear the paper ‘til the cows come home. He cannot tear it. And the harder he works at it, the funnier it is. The kids do it easily every time. Only one newspaper is used. There’s a lot of comedy—and you get the complete routine and the simple photo-illustrated instructions on making the gimmicked paper .

"I have known and worked with Bob Shelley over many years. He is truly one of the very funniest and best comic entertainers out there. His talents are many: Hypnotist, Emcee, Magician, Comedian, Motivational Speaker. He has an incredible ability to get his audiences to laugh, be amazed and be inspired. In addition, he is a true professional with the highest of integrity. Any client that books him --corporate, academic, private or otherwise will not be disappointed." Jonathan Levey, Employment Counsellor, Access45+ Program at Federation CJA


Bob Shelley is the author of dozens of books chock full of comedy and magic! You’ll find all the titles among Amazon.com’s Kindle books. The chapters that once were published as part of Bob’s Book, All My Best, are now available individually, trick, by trick, comedy routine by comedy routine in an effort to make all of the fabulous secrets and hilarious material easier to find. Visit Bob’s website, bobshelley.com to discover this career magician and the many popular performers with which he has performed on stage—celebrities you will instantly recognize, perhaps most notably Bob Hope.
Bob plays to capacity crowds wherever he appears—including Rutland Vermont’s Paramount Theater where he has performed for seven consecutive years, performing before sell-out crowds year in and year-out. He sells out shows in and around Montreal whenever and wherever he appears. In the words of Jerry Aldrich and Jay Sprout, Coordinators for First Night® St. Johnsbury, VT:: “Bob Shelley is an incredibly versatile performer—he entertains with original and creative comedy and magic -- a brilliant show that takes family magic shows to a whole new level of entertainment!”

“Bob Shelley’s magic and hypnosis shows were so popular, we’ve had to open the balcony of the Paramount Theater every year he performs! He is the only performer to attract crowds of that size in the 15-year history of our event!” Martin Bones, Exec. Director, First Night ® Rutland, VT