The Magical Pitchman

Author/Originator: William Larsen, Sr.
Product ID: e644

PDF Price: $5.00

DESCRIPTION

Here's an act which you can use immediately and one which you'll find extremely easy to book. Imagine yourself as a sidewalk pitchman doing a bit of magic and then pitching your wares. It's all a laugh, from beginning to end as you extol the virtues of Dr. Bokakiak's Famous Elliptical Asiatical Pendicuricol, Grizzly Grease, Hoo Sick Him and that wonder gadget - Dnasuoht (yep, that's THOUSAND spelled backwards). You sell nothing - "It's all free, folks."

The spiel includes quotations from a number of letters from satisfied users of your products. These will bring real belly laughs. We include no apparatus. Use any tricks or props you happen to own. Get yourself together a number of old medicine bottles and jars and you are all set.

Larsen includes a brief outline to help commit the act to memory. Follow his original instructions, which come to you in PDF manuscript form, and you'll be doing the pitch act the same day that you receive it.

The act is funny without being "blue." It's based, primarily, on "Doc" Lehar's famous medicine pitch with which he actually sold patent medicines while making his customers laugh.

6-pages (with cover), re-typeset manuscript, first published in 1945 by William Larsen, Sr. Many of the later comedy magic pitch acts are based upon this quality Thayer manuscript.

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