Gags

51 entries in Silk & Handkerchief / Gags

Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
Eric Williams	Sucker Dummy	gag for silk vanish with sucker/soother		1939	The Jinx (Issue Summer Extra 1939)	410	Silk & Handkerchief / Vanish / Bare Handed Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Abril Lamarque	Foiling the Gremlins	gag when magic trick goes wrong, egg with silk inside bearing a message		May 1944	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 1 No. 12)	51	Silk & Handkerchief / Miscellaneous Silk & Handkerchief / Gags Egg / Things appear inside Egg
Milbourne Christopher	Four Ink Spots	apparently black facing, dated impression joke		Apr. 1949	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 6 No. 11)	529	Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Bert Kalmar	Spooky Monkey Business	gag with handkerchief	Also published here The Ghost (Bert Kalmar, 1969) A Gag (1969)	1949	Over the Coffee Cups	17	Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Tot O'Regan	The Blue Quints	handkerchiefs are produced and color changed then a ribbon with five dolls attached appear between the knotted silks, comedy routine		1950	Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1950)	10	Silk & Handkerchief / Color Change Silk & Handkerchief / Production & Appearance / Bare Handed Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Eddie Turner	My Own Repeat Silk Vanish	repeat silk vanish, assistant always finds it in performer's pocket, comedy routine		1953	Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1953)	34	Silk & Handkerchief / Vanish / Bare Handed Comedy Magic & Comedy Props Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Yellowstone	Tricky Tidbits	ideas, gags and puns Joy Buzzer Flexible Glass Bill in Cigarette Sucker Silk Vanish Coin in Egg Dancing Hanky Egg Bag Finish Swallowing Wand Gag Stamp Album Diminishing Bills Finale Torn and Restored Paper Floating Bulb Milk in Light Bulb Handkerchief Frame Hat Production		1954	Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1954)		Silk & Handkerchief / Animation Wand & Stick / Miscellaneous Paper / Torn & Restored Silk & Handkerchief / Vanish / Bare Handed Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Fruit Light & Fire / Light Bulb Light & Fire / Flash Paper & Material Egg / Egg Bag Bill / Traveling / Impossible Location / Cigarette or Cigar Book / Magic Coloring Book & Blow Book Clothing / Hat Bill / Transformation / Bill or Paper / Multiple / In the Hands Silk & Handkerchief / Gags Egg / Things appear inside Egg
Karrell Fox	A Kornsilk Production	humorous printings for big silks	Related to Karrell's Korny Komments Silks (Karrell Fox, 1995) Variations Chalk Talk Features and Finale (Karrell Fox, 1976)	1954	Kornfidentially Yours	42	Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Marconick	Taking the Corners Away	corners of silks are removed and replaced, silks stand by themselves, secret use of vanishing cane		1967	Original Magic	140	Silk & Handkerchief / Animation Silk & Handkerchief / Destroyed & Restored Cane / Vanish Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Marconick	Finale	big handkerchief with the word The End appear from two cups		1967	Original Magic	162	Silk & Handkerchief / Vanish / With Props Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Bert Kalmar	The Ghost	gag with handkerchief	Also published here Spooky Monkey Business (Bert Kalmar, 1949)	1969	Fun With A Handkerchief	5	Silk & Handkerchief / Miscellaneous Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
	A Gag	gag with handkerchief	Also published here Spooky Monkey Business (Bert Kalmar, 1949)	1969	Fun With A Handkerchief	6	Silk & Handkerchief / Miscellaneous Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
	Character Reading	verbal gag in which spectators must bite onto napkin	Also published here Character Reading from the Teeth (1941)	1969	Fun With A Handkerchief	6	Paper / Paper Napkin Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
	Burned Up	really burning center of handkerchief, gag		1969	Fun With A Handkerchief	7	Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
	Grandma Face	forming a grandma with hand, burnt matches and a silk		1969	Fun With A Handkerchief	8	Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
	The Jumping Handkerchief	handkerchiefs stretched between hands, jumps to the side		1969	Fun With A Handkerchief	9	Silk & Handkerchief / Animation Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
	The Washington Monument	impression of the Washington Monument		1969	Fun With A Handkerchief	10	Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Bert Allerton	The Invisible Hair		Also published here The Invisible Hair (Bert Allerton, 1958)	1969	Fun With A Handkerchief	11	Silk & Handkerchief / Animation Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
	The Spirit Speaks	handkerchief starts moving as divination method		1969	Fun With A Handkerchief	13	Silk & Handkerchief / Animation Divining & Dowsing Rod Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
	Such a Production	apparently something appears under handkerchief, gag		1969	Fun With A Handkerchief	13	Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
	The Simple Puppet	simple puppet made from handkerchief		1969	Fun With A Handkerchief	14	Doll & Puppet / Miscellaneous Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
	The Invisible Audience	gag, making audience invisible to a spectator		1969	Fun With A Handkerchief	16	Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
	The Challenge	boxing match for two spectators standing on a handkerchief, gag		1969	Fun With A Handkerchief	16	Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
	Holding the Bag	gag with handkerchief, for hecklers		1969	Fun With A Handkerchief	17	Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Robert Orben	Goodbye	gag, everybody in the audience wave with handkerchief		1969	Fun With A Handkerchief	18	Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Jay Marshall	The Handkerchief Melodrama	story and several figures are made with a rolled up handkerchief, gags		1969	Fun With A Handkerchief	19	Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Parker Swan	How to Force a Watermelon	card or silk in watermelon, gag		1970	How to Force a Watermelon	3	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Fruit Food / Fruit Silk & Handkerchief / Traveling / Miscellaneous Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Val Andrews	Phew!	No. 18, presentation for card on silk as gag		1970 (ca.)	The Idiot at the Card Table	8	Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Force and unusual Discovery Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Card Silk Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Roy Johnson	Hypno-Hank	gag, handkerchief moves up and down, invisible hair presentation		1971	Second Time Around	11	Silk & Handkerchief / Animation Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
	Final Comico	gag with handkerchief, to finish show		1973	Aprenda Ud. Magia	109	Silk & Handkerchief / Miscellaneous Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Bob Read	Bob's Business for the Handkerchief Rabbit	gag addition	Inspired by The Rabbit (Bert Allerton, 1958)	Sep. 1974	Pabular (Vol. 1 No. 1)	5	Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Patrick Page	A Comedy Illusion	invisible hair and handkerchief, gag		1974	Tricks with Handkerchiefs	29	Silk & Handkerchief / Animation Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Patrick Page	A Comedy Interlude	handkerchief floats up in hand		1974	Tricks with Handkerchiefs	58	Silk & Handkerchief / Animation Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Patrick Page	Another Amusing Little Item	gag for handkerchief with a hole	Also published here A Hole in One (Patrick Page, 2011)	1974	Tricks with Handkerchiefs	59	Silk & Handkerchief / Miscellaneous Comedy Magic & Comedy Props Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
	Cruzado Mágico con Servilleta	folding a bra with a handkerchief, gag	Also published here Improvised Brassiere (1941)	1975	Magia en el Bar	31	Silk & Handkerchief / Gags Silk & Handkerchief / Design & Puppet Folds
Tan Hock Chuan	Reel-less Transformation	Picture of rabbit on cloth changes into duck, small gag		1977	The Magic of Tan Hock Chuan	18	Picture & Drawing Silk & Handkerchief / Color Change Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Harold Rice	Historia Sentimental del Señor Rojo y de la Señorita Blanca	string with small handkerchiefs appear knotted between two silks		1977	Magicolor	57	Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Tony Slydini	Hank Gag	handkerchief pulled out of non-existant breast pocket	Variations Post-It Pocket (Tony Bartolotta, 2002)	1978	The Chronicles (Issue 12)	1179	Pocket Techniques / Miscellaneous Silk & Handkerchief / Production & Appearance / Bare Handed Clothing / Jacket Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Meir Yedid	Transpo-Tip	silk to thumb tip on fake hand, gag		1983	Off the Wall	8	Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip Hand Gimmicks / Third Hand Silk & Handkerchief / Traveling / Miscellaneous Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Steve Beam	Leftovers	on Dexter Cleveland, Harry Anderson, Doug Henning, The Jinx, optical illusions, a gag for introducing a handkerchief to a modern audience		1985	The Trapdoor — Volume One (Issue 9)	160	Articles / Columns Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
	The Light Touch	effects and gags with match, cigarette, silk that bounces back from floor		1985	The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 1)	21	Silk & Handkerchief / Animation Cigarette & Cigar / Miscellaneous Match & Matchbox / Match / Miscellaneous Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Tony Slydini	No Pockets	No. 6, sight gag, silk pulled from breast pocket even though no pocket is there		1988	Self-Working Handkerchief Magic	17	Silk & Handkerchief / Production & Appearance / Bare Handed Clothing / Miscellaneous Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Karrell Fox	Karrell's Korny Komments Silks	humorous printings on silks	Related to A Kornsilk Production (Karrell Fox, 1954)	1995	Much Ado About Something	156	Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Sveroni	Alles Ablenkung oder was?	humorous vanish of a handkerchief, then handkerchief vanishes from hand and is found knotted to other silk		2002	Kreative Magie	27	Silk & Handkerchief / Vanish / With Props Silk & Handkerchief / Traveling / Miscellaneous Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Ronnie Lee	The Proof	one of three silks chosen, predicted, with three gag predictions	Related to Back Story (Karl Fulves, 2010)	2010	Prolix (Issue 7)	448	Mental Magic / Principles / Multiple Out Mental Magic / Effects / Gag Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Patrick Page	A Colour Change	color changing handkerchief gag	Also published here Das Farbwechselnde Taschentuch (Patrick Page, 1993)	2011	Magic Page by Page	285	Silk & Handkerchief / Color Change Comedy Magic & Comedy Props Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Patrick Page	H.G. Wells Outdone	invisible handkerchief travels knotted between two other handkerchiefs, empty space between silks can be seen, gag		2011	Magic Page by Page	288	Silk & Handkerchief / Traveling / Miscellaneous Comedy Magic & Comedy Props Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Patrick Page	The Diminishing Handkerchief	gag, with handkerchief to compare		2011	Magic Page by Page	294	Silk & Handkerchief / Growing & Shrinking Comedy Magic & Comedy Props Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Patrick Page	Pocket Magic	gag with handkerchief		2011	Magic Page by Page	299	Comedy Magic & Comedy Props Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
Patrick Page	A Hole in One	gag for handkerchief with a hole	Also published here Another Amusing Little Item (Patrick Page, 1974)	2011	Magic Page by Page	299	Comedy Magic & Comedy Props Silk & Handkerchief / Gags
	A Powerful Blow!	gag, blowing nose with handkerchief		2011	Mr. Mysto's Wizard Academy	48	Silk & Handkerchief / Gags