Piff the Magic Dragon

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Piff the Magic Dragon, John van der Put (born 1980), is a magician and comedian from the United Kingdom who appears under the stage name Piff the Magic Dragon.

He toured as a support act for Mumford and Sons, and he appeared on Penn & Teller's Fool Us and America's Got Talent. He was the winner of several awards from British magic societies.

Van der Putte was named one of Variety's Top Comics to Watch for 2019.

Van der Putt live in Las Vegas and is a resident at The Flamingo.

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Early life and career

Van der Putt grew up in South East London. After seeing Jerry Sadowitz on the BBC2 show Stuff the White Rabbit, as a child, he was inspired to be a magician. He became a member of The Magic Circle at the age of 18, and was one of the youngest students to have lectured there.

His parents encouraged him to pursue a back-up career, so he obtained a Computer Science degree and embarked on a career in Information technology. After two years of acute pancreatitis, he rethink his life aspirations, and he left IT to learn performance techniques as a drama student at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Alexis Terry, Maya Politaki, and Lucy Cullingford, a CSSD alumni, co-founded the theatrical cabaret company, who became their artistic director. "Love and Other Magic Tricks," starring Politaki and van der Putt, was praised by Time Out Critic's Choice award as well as the 2009 Buxton Festival Fringe award for Best Writing and Performance, as well as the 2009 Buxton Festival Fringe awards for Best Writing. Van der Puttin was also a supporting cast member of Derek Walcott's 2008 operatic revival of Seamus Heaney's The Burial at Shakespeare's Globe.

Fay Presto is credited with his ability to be a natural magician, according to Van der Putte. Restaurant close-up performances for tables of diners; cruise ship construction; and corporate consulting, which included "product launches, PR stunts, tradeshows, and internal presentations" for multinational corporations.

When asked whether or not it was a comedy act also, van der Put said "not intentionally." It was me doing magic tricks. And then there are some people who would say, 'Can you make my wife disappear?'

Can you do this?

Can you do that?'

And I'd make a remark to them that I thought was amusing, and a few people would think it was amusing, but the majority of people would be offended. So, the dragon suit helped me make me socially acceptable."

van der Putte's comedic influences "It was the people who are a little more irreverent." It was people like The Amazing Johnathan, Penn and Teller, Harry Anderson... and even if you take a look at some of the Copperfield stuff, like with the singing connection, he's got amazingly funny routines as well. Obviously, Copperfield's other stuff is much more straightforward and serious. "I was reacting against" was the "acting against."

When asked which is harder, doing the magic or getting the comedy correct, van der Putt said: "It's been, without question, getting the magic tricks to work." That's the hardest part. You can rewrite a joke in a flash, but in R&D prototyping, it takes at least a month or two. And if it doesn't work, you'll have to go back to the drawing board to get it back to basics. Because now you spent all this time on something that no one is concerned about. You'll have to start over again.

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