7 Tips for dealing with Derren Brown

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1. *giggles*

   Though why people find DB scary is still a mystery to me. Good mentalist/hypnotist? Hell yes. Scary? Just not seeing it.
   Peter Powers is scary, because he makes people do horrid things (though I’m still not seeing HOW he does that — all experience I’ve had with hypnosis says you have to cooperate with it yourself).
   Derren mostly does funny things. Really not scary.
2. Oh! Should have read this before going to see his live show, fell into all these traps when he brought me on stage to do the card trick.
   x
3. This is good advice for my husband. He is terrified that Derren will pick him to go on stage during his show. The look of panic that crossed his face when I showed him the tickets was priceless!
4. Katherine: Just tell him not to go jumping for any frisbees flying past! 😛
5. Even if he does go leaping there’s every chance he’ll miss! But then DVB DOES prefer male volunteers to female (we all now know why) so maybe tell the poor guy to keep his head down after all Lol.
6. Haha. Thanks god I don’t live in the UK. I’d be fucked.
7. Oh well, I’m not scared .. I like a little challenge now and then but hey .. I’m not living there .. and he will not be coming this way so I’m considered to be ‘safe’ then according to the tips. I’m immune to Brown’s .. erm .. to Brown.

   I came across these tips when reading a very long interview, made me laugh back then as well.
8. >In fact, he could be a villain right now…and could we trust ourselves to remember him taking over the world?

   Yes, lets all hope that a bunch of power crazed psychopathic megalomaniacs don’t use some of these techniques to enslave us all for their own pleasure………..

   ……wait……

   never-mind.
9. The people that are scared of db need to get a sense of humor! haha:D
   The truth is we are all scared of ourselves and then some clever git comes along to make us feel insecure and lacking superiority in our tiny worlds!!!
   Anyhoo you don’t scare me big scary brown lol 😀
   Excuse me if i seem a bit full on
   just ye ol lady hormones at work 😉 xXx
10. Thanks so much for the link…yes, for the record, we’re not half as scared of Derren as we make ourselves out to be…when “playing along” at home when Derren has a selection process going on his show or special, my wife and I always seem to pick whatever it is that would have disqualified us. Contrary by nature, that’s us. I guess.

    Although if you like our tips, we’d just like to pass along our follow-up idea that Derren vs. Ricky Jay in a poker game would be the #1 pay per view event of 2009.
11. Staring competition = scary!!!!
12. haha “mindgrope” !

    Cannot stop thinking of DB as “Derren Brown: Mindmonger”

    (This is because of ‘The Magicians’, which is an excellent film btw – it has Mitchell & Webb from Peep Show & Andy Nyman is credited as one of the story-thinker-uppers, although not a writer – so I like to imagine it was written like Cold Comfort Farm, with everyone down the pub giggling til Stella Gibbons went off & wrote it down, or the Peep Show folks in this case).
13. Take this seriously. Similarly, I live in fear of Uri Gellar bending all my spoons…
14. Jimmy F: The horror… you’d have to eat your soup with a fork! *cowers in fear* 😛
15. yeah & what about the horror of Hans kazan being able to turn an Alfred Hitchkock scene into reality, by hocus~pocussing Black~Birds out of his Hat brrr…
16. I love these. I would gladly ignore all advice though 😉
17. Hot damn. I guess this means I’m fucked.
18. TOPIC RESURRECTION GO!
    The best way of dealing with Derren Brown used to be simply running up or down a long flight of stairs. He couldn’t get up them, and would stand helplessly at the top or bottom flailing his metallic appendages and yelling “EXTERMINATE” in a harsh, metallic voice. I saw it on TV. I think he learned to hover up them, though, so that doesn’t work any more.