When Derrin Berger was 6 years old, he witnessed his first magic trick while attending an event at his sister's elementary school. His father, Marc Berger, also had an interest in magic when he was a ...

Ask any magician about performing close-up magic and you’ll learn there’s an element of being fully exposed — all nude, if you will (more on that later) — in front of an audience. Getting up close and ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Illusionist and comedian Michael Carbonaro, best known for his hit truTV series The Carbonaro Effect, is bringing his unique brand of magic to Jacksonville. Carbonaro will perform ...

For his next trick, magician Michael Carbonaro will reappear on Long Island. The Oakdale native makes his triumphant return home at The Paramount in Huntington on Feb. 22. Each time an artist performs ...

“You know, I’m throwing some shaving cream in my bag,” Michael Carbonaro laughs over the phone in a recent interview. The magician slash funnyman is known to pull out shaving cream on stage, lathering ...

The Beatles famously honed their performance skills in unforgiving Hamburg, Germany, where they had to perform incessantly and essentially lived where they worked. Long Island was Michael Carbonaro's ...

Michael Carbonaro has been doing magic since he was a teenager, but through his TV show, “The Carbonaro Effect,” and his live show, he’s actually become the magic. The program, a candid-camera show in ...

Michael Carbonaro freely admits that he will repeatedly lie to you. But the TV magician honestly hopes you’ll believe in a world where the impossible is possible. On TruTV’s “The Carbonaro Effect,” ...

Illusionist Michael Carbonaro of “The Carbonaro Effect” gets up to some of his startling magic tricks on TODAY. Wait till you see Sheinelle Jones’ reaction when he makes a live frog appear as if by ...

Here’s the gag: Even magician Michael Carbonaro didn’t think he would make 100 episodes of his hidden-camera TV show “The Carbonaro Effect.” “To put together a hidden-camera, magic TV show, I thought ...